What's Going on in the Classroom: Metal and Wire Projects

Hey all, just a quick peak as we finish up our metal pendants and begin wire sculptures. I posted here about the start of our metal pendents. Students used an acetylene torch and solder to connect one or more pieces of metal and did a ton of filing, sanding, and polishing to create some pretty cool pendants, here are just some of the results.

Now that most students are done with their pendant project, we are moving on to wire sculptures. Since this is a foundations course, some of these students are experiencing sculpture for the first time since elementary school. So we have a nice long talk about 3-D vs. 2-D, building an armature and then building up mass. Students had to select an animal, draw a contour line drawing of it, form an outline out of wire and then building up the mass of the sculpture using wire. These projects are in the works but here are a couple to show you how we've been starting out.