Middle School Student Work
In my Art and Ecology unit, we looked at John James Audubon's Birds of America illustrated manuscript. We had the opportunity thanks to a generous grant provided by the school's PTO Wish List program, to have educators from the Massachusetts Audubon Society’s Drumlin Farm visit our classroom with live birds for us to observe and study. Students researched a species of backyard, exotic, endangered, or extinct bird and researched the bird’s habitat as well. They then illustrated the bird in watercolors as Audubon would have done by making the bird central to the composition and having the bird perching on the type of branch it likes to perch on or eating the type of plant it likes to eat. (The blue-footed booby was a hit, as you can imagine.) We also looked at how the landscape holds remnants of history or has been shaped by history. Students then took a series of photos of local landscapes and chose one or a composite to draw and collage with assorted recycled and decorative papers and acrylic gloss medium. Students chose an organic specimen from nature i.e. a mushroom, pinecone, feather, pod, sea creature, microscopic organism, etc., and drew a page of studies and then repurposed recycled and manmade materials into sculptures that mimicked these forms from nature.
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