ASU Artspace at Desert Oasis: March 2010

Monday, March 8, 2010

Millionaire!

On Friday we played Who Wants to be a Millionaire. The questions were great, and both teams only missed 1! It's nice to know that Matt and I are not boring. I think the candy helped too. With Spring break coming up, ArtSpace will resume in a couple weeks. So stay tuned and we'll be back! Check out the pictures of our game show adventure.

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Putting some groove in those buckets

Today we started learning some basic drumming skills by practicing alternating strokes and keeping time. The students also had to concentrate hard to keep track of all of the counts. Not as easy as they originally thought. By the end we were doing pretty good.

Monday, March 1, 2010

3D Painting

We did some more painting of the buckets on Friday. They are turning out pretty great. Painting these buckets have really got us all thinking about what would look good in 3d. Luckily, the paint peels off so you can repaint if you don't like what you're doing! We have also been using up some of the beautiful weather we've been having and working outside! Looks like we'll have some tunes soon
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Painting the Buckets!

This week we painted our buckets in many different ways. Each student received some experience mixing paint to make a variety of different colors. Trying our best to stay clean, we made all of our buckets say something about us! I have lots of pictures, but blogger is having some difficulties. I will upload them later.....I promise!

About Our Instructors

Matt McGraw, President of Emusicinstrucition, is currently pursuing a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Percussion Performance at Arizona State University. As a performer, McGraw has had the privilege of playing in many different types of music ensembles and is looking forward to playing with the ArtSpace students as Desert Oasis!

Pooneh Erami is from Irvine, California. She received her B.A. from the University of California at Santa Cruz in the History of Art and Visual Culture. In Santa Cruz she developed an interest in sculpture and space which brought her to architecture. She is now a teaching assista

About ArtSpace

ASU ArtSpace is a transdiciplinary arts and design afterschool serving the Phoenix area and establishing a new model of arts educational experience aiming to ensure that its students are self-confident, successful in school and proactive in making a positive impact in their community. ArtSpace was launched in Fall 2008 by a partnership between the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, the Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture and the Arizona Department of Education. The ASU ArtSpace program places graduate students from all Schools within the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at eligible schools to provide transdiciplinary programming focused upon their disciplines and thesis. The graduate students design their own transdisciplinary curriculum in teams of two based upon a global theme such as Time, Place, Communication or Storytelling under the guidance of Melissa McGurgan, the ArtSpace Program Coordinator.

ArtSpace classrooms are treated as creative spaces where students are exposed to a multitude of artforms, skills and collaborative processes and the graduate student instructors are able to test and develop experimental teaching methods, techniques and learning processes incorporating art, design and technology. The pilot semester of ASU ArtSpace took place in Fall 2008 and is now serving 12 schools during the 2009-2010 school year. The ASU ArtSpace program exemplifies the U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s charge for universities to form partnerships with local school districts and create a new generation of teachers while establishing ASU as an accessible educational entity which embraces new thinking and approaches to art and design to hundreds of children, families, educators and communities throughout the Valley.