Sentences with phrase «about everyday objects»

Avani was invited in 2005 by the American Embassy in Panama to hold workshops in schools and art centers, creating collaborative installations about everyday objects one's personal life.

Players learn essential vocabulary while making choices about everyday objects, body parts, pets, and household environments.

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, which introduces primary colors through photos of everyday objects, and The Snowman, by Raymond Briggs, a full - color cartoon book about a snowman who comes to life.

Besides learning about that technique, however, I wanted to experience an atmosphere in which atoms were ordinary, everyday objects, like cups and saucers and grains of sand.

Thinking about my habits and tools helped me understand what everyday objects I should invest in.

Yorkshire About Blog Little Wren Pottery focuses on everyday objects which are both elegant and functional.

There is something deeply unsettling about the idea of destroying the everyday objects that makeup the elements of our own identity.

Whether it's about toys and gender stereotypes, a New Jersey girl who was tired of seeing books only about white boys and dogs, or discussing a new line of dolls with disabilities, you can provide openings for children to see how bias takes place in media and the everyday objects that they use.

For 30 days, each wrote for an hour about a different everyday object.

The teacher could then pose a hypothetical problem about a curator struggling to put together a display of everyday objects — she's not sure how to do it so that it successfully tells a story.

The five animated activities in this module teach children about levers, wheels and axles, inclined planes, gears, wedges, screws, and pulleys by interactively exploring everyday objects around the house.

Another activity challenged students to think about global connections and the provenance and design of everyday objects.

But for archaeologists, everyday objects are material evidence, full of meaning that helps us realign the deeper truth of experience with the stories we tell about who we are and how we live.

Using everyday objects and principles of colour and light therapy, her work may remind us of the home of someone we know, but it is actually about people's inner spaces and uncertainties in a changing world.

In How to Become a Non-Artist (2007), Ane Hjort Guttu (b. 1971, Norway) looks at small arrangements of everyday objects by her four year - old son and offers an in - depth commentary about these inadvertent works of art.

We hope that families left with new ideas about what art can be, and how everyday objects can be brought to life through creativity and imagination.

It's not about putting a speaker on the objects, but rather transforming everyday objects into speakers or transmitters of sound.

According to Yu Honglei, art comes from life; his work as an artist is derived from the everyday objects collected from his life to bring about and create an array of discursive new possibilities.

The piece offers a message about the expectations people place on everyday objects and spaces.

Cheekily titled «I see straight through you,» it corrals collections of peculiar objects, everyday observations, and a rich range of emotions — all of which tell stories about the absurdities of the human condition.

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The film is less about the artist's iconography than the embedded intellectual process that allows him to transform everyday objects into remarkable sculptural forms.

In the Hall of Architecture, Errazuriz's debut exhibit Look Again restructures everyday objects to provoke the viewer to think twice about the typical use of common items.

In this interview, Damián Ortega talks about the basic concept of the show, the Beetle Trilogy, and his use of everyday objects and materials.

In her first UK exhibition at Modern Art Oxford that opens this weekend, she creates a theatrical environment in which performers interact with everyday objects and sculptures, while in another gallery an actor plays the part of a professor, lecturing about the nature of storytelling.

When asked about the motivation for the sculpture Hank Willis Thomas mentioned Claes Oldenburg and his oversized recreations of ordinary and everyday objects one finds in ones living environment.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Erik Benson is an artist whose process - based paintings are informed by architecture and everyday objects found in urban landscape.

I try to reproduce that distance in my works, juxtaposing everyday objects and scientific concepts, in order to produce questions about how we perceive the world.»

The American artist assembles on stands kitsch consumer items, in the process changing everyday things to works of art and examining ideas about how we collect, classify and display objects.

One of the founding figures of Italian Arte Povera, Jannis Kounellis had spent the past 50 years creating works about everyday life, mixing found objects with handmade elements.

The film is lost, but his published notes stated: «I paint about communication», explaining that in making painting derived from everyday contemporary objects, he sought to establish common ground between the modern spectator and high art.

Based on the analysis of a given space and on the use and reuse of everyday objects and shapes, Cevdet Erek «s work is above all a sonic and three dimensional investigation about the structure of the so called «natural» and «human made» spaces and times, and the way we try to measure, organize and materialize these concepts.

The artist muses about how the human mind will sometime charge everyday objects with a responsibility of some sort, and he has chosen his materials for their ability to meet those inclinations.

Using collage as a form of interpretation and critique, Hirschhorn presents intellectual history and philosophical theory much as he does everyday objects and images, and poses questions about aesthetic value, moral responsibility, political agency, consumerism, and media spectacle.

In his sculptural installations, Handforth often transplants familiar objects found in civic infrastructure — such as municipal signs, motor scooters, hydrants, street lamps, wheels, and traffic cones — into unfamiliar surroundings and transforms them, by reworking or deforming their structures and configurations, in order to reveal something new about the ways in which these objects function in our everyday lives.

He took objects from the everyday world such as typewriters, lipstick, a flashlight; lifted them out of their usual context; and forced viewers to reassess their preconceptions about the objects.

His formal propositions launch complex discussions about the meanings we invest in everyday objects and the shared histories that make up who we are.

(This re-emission seems deeply mysterious to me, at least, in that AFAIK about the only characterizations we can place on it are that its quantized in definable ways and that there is a statistical time function of some sort associated — and yet it's also the most everyday thing imaginable, in that emitted thermal radiation is just what physical objects do, all the time, unless they are at absolute zero.

Now, these projects probably won't save our environmental crisis but they do make us think about the use of everyday objects, and make us treasure what seem even the most boring objects at first.

And one of the interesting things about the Portable Light Project is that it is a way people can begin to make a change in their lives by seeing that clean energy can be integrated into everyday objects, whether that's a saddle bag, an article of clothing, a shawl, a bag.

For example, MAKE Magazine's editor and founder will talk about tools for bringing the maker mindset into the classroom, Khan Academy will demo universal remote - controlled robots made from everyday objects and the Digital Harbor Foundation will share their experience in helping to build maker programs aligned to Common Core standards in Baltimore.

Cochrane, Alberta About Blog Mindi Oaten, a Prophetic Artist enjoy painting everyday objects or imagery that she is moved to portray, connecting them with a deeper message.

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Cochrane, Alberta About Blog Mindi Oaten, a Prophetic Artist enjoy painting everyday objects or imagery that she is moved to portray, connecting them with a deeper message.