Large collaborative art project

Elementary Collaboration

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The fine arts magnet program at Howard Middle School in Downtown Orlando has embarked on another virtual art creation process. The entire Howard community was invited to participate, including staff, students, parents, future students and children of staff. Their goal was to create a photo mosaic of Salvador Dalu00edu2019s u201cBurning Giraffeu201d painting. Submissions were made through a Google Classroom site, <a…

It's been a total joy collaborating with 8 to 12-year-old kids from Orakei School. I think we've managed to create something uniquely kiwi with these three artworks.

The past few months my students have been making feathers for a group mural. This idea was inspired by my friend and celebrity in the art community, Cassie Stephens! Head on over to her blog and check

These wooden tile mosaic murals are all 60-100 square feet and permanently mounted in schools where they were created. For each of them I created a "big picture" concept beforehand. I spent 1-2 weeks at the school teaching classes on portraiture, landscape painting, color mixing and composition to students. The resulting works the students created then became the pixels for my preconceived "big picture."