Mola Animal Drawings
For this projects, students learned about a style of artwork called "Mola" from the Kuna tribe of Panama. These "Mola" are originally textile, or fabric-based, artworks sewn with a variety of colors, lines, and often depicting animals. Students practiced making outlines of a variety of objects before selecting an animal to focus on for their project. Then, they used oil pastels to draw their animals and filled in the backgrounds with "Mola"-styled line designs (maze-like structures, swirls, stripes, spots, and zig-zags).
Finally, students prepared their artwork for presentation and display by mounting their "Mola" designs onto one or more sheets of colored paper to make creative frames which they then decorated to make their drawings look amazing! Wow!
Miriam Schapiro Inspired Fans
Students learned about the American Artist, Miriam Schapiro, and her work with creating large-scale paintings in the shape of fans as homage to the women who have worked to create a variety of useful, beautiful things the world of crafting.