KINETIC SCULPTURES WITH TINGUELY

Summer Arts Institute is in the fourth week of classes, but we’re not slowing down anytime soon. In fact, we’re doing just the opposite. Instead of creating stationary art, we’re speeding things up and giving students the chance to create artwork that moves – literally!

Kinetic Sculptures with Tinguely focuses on artwork that uses moving parts or depends on motion for its effect. Using past kinetic artists as inspiration, students will learn how to transform sketches and ideas into simple machines and sculptures with found objects. With inspiration from kinetic artists like Jean Tinguely, Marcel Duchamp and Alexander Calder, students will have no problem getting moving, too!

In the early 1900s, French artist Marcel Duchamp created the first piece of kinetic art. While nothing more than a bicycle wheel mounted upside down on a stool, Duchamp's piece set the stage for more complex kinetic art down the road. As the wheel spun on its axle, so did the gears in the minds of other early kinetic artists. Students will also study the works of Alexander Calder, an American artist who is most famous for inventing the mobile, and Swiss artist Jean Tinguely, a creator of machines that draw, play, explode, and capture our imagination.

Partnering with the Bechthler Museum of Modern Art, the Kinetic Sculptures class will be offered August 1 - 5, 2011, and is available to all rising 4th - 6th graders. Click here to enroll and secure a spot in Kinetic Sculptures. There are only a limited number of spaces available, so register now before it’s too late!