Teaching Tumbling Tiles

So I taught the Tumbling Tiles lesson to middle schoolers today. Big class, but I noticed one section of boys was really getting into it, making geometric designs...

















After class, they went outside, and their teacher called me out to see.... those same four boys were putting their tiles together to make a big collaborative piece, spontaneously--nobody told them to do this, they just understood the lesson. Whoo-hooo!





















Thanks guys!

More Resources for Tumbling Tiles

Docent art, from the Friday workshop

Did you enjoy the training workshop for Tumbling Tiles? Are you looking forward to teaching the lesson? Great!

Here are some more resources for the background material:

Terrific Tiles: an accessible e-book (by me!) of photos similar to my slideshow today.

More about the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and how it relates to medieval Islamic tilework.

Isfahan in Iran has been named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Here's a gallery of images from a UNESCO website of the Meidan Emam, Isfahan.

Here's a nice website of Moorish tilework in Sevilla, Spain.

More about William Morris's designs for tiles (with a lot of images).

The MOMA page about Frank Stella.

An interview with artist Valerie Jaudon, conducted by fellow artist Shirley Kaneda.

Also, here's more information about The Power of Art event, the next two weekends.

And away we go! Tumbling Tiles

Are you ready for the first project? Tumbling Tiles kicks off our 2011-2012 season. Here are some photos from the Thursday morning docent training workshop:

Help teach an HOA lesson at the Galleria!

Ready to get started on the new year of Hands on Art? We are too! If you want to jump in before the first workshop, there's a great opportunity on Saturday, October 1. In conjunction with the Redondo Beach Art Group, South Bay Hands on Art Reaching Out is going to be previewing the Power of Art event with activities at the Galleria, including a Hands on Art hands-on lesson. Contact Stefani Conniff to volunteer your time; the event runs from 11-1 and 2-4 in the Food Court area.

Ready for 2011-2012?

A few notes as we head into the new school year:

*School HOA chairs should have received an email about the chair meeting 9/10/11 (hey, cool date!)--if you didn't get that email, you may need to update the board about your contact information, asap.

*Workshops this year will happen at Alta Vista elementary school, at 815 Knob Hill. There are specific instructions about parking and entry to the workshop space; all school chairs will have these details in hand before the first workshop, and should share them with docents.

*Got the project list for this year? No? Okay, then here it is:

Tumbling Tiles
Penny Richards

Reflections in Nature
Diane Dubin

Branching Out
Kaye Furlong

Designs by Klimt
Marianne Coble

Larger than Life
Lee-Jean Lin

Notan
Marlene Rich


Firm dates and other details coming soon!

*Finally--anyone interested in being HOA Supply Chair? If you are organized, and you have some space for staging supplies for pickup, you can do this. There aren't any very unusual supplies this year (like some years), so it's a good time to give it a try. If we don't get an overall supply chair, each school's supply chair will handle ordering and organizing materials for each site. We've done that before, and it's not unworkable, but an overall chair makes a lot of things run more smoothly. Consider if this is another way you can help this year.

UPDATE: Supply chair FOUND! More details soon.