MAKING MAPS AT CHEVY CHASE ELEMENTARY

Emerald Forest detail from Toni's map

For the first Art After School class at Chevy Chase Elementary, we made maps of imaginary worlds. Here are a few pictures from the class. As always, I loved seeing the creative, unexpected lands and inhabitants the kids invented. Not pictured: Elena's "Technology Island", which maps a land that mimics your iPhone, where all of the houses and other locations are represented by app icons!

Mark's "Deth Islands" populated with monsters.

 L: detail of Teddy's map (including magnifications!); R: Teddy working

Jazmin with her colorful drawing

Annie, Sofia, and Elena hard at work. 

IMAGIN-ATLAS MAPS, PART 2

A few more maps from the Imagin-Atlas project - these are from the 5 - 6 year old ART BRAINS group. Lookin' good.

shirt twins!

IMAGIN-ATLAS

detail from Jasper's map

IMAGIN-ATLAS.

Youth will be asked to invent their own country or land, filling it in with drawings of the landscape, wildlife, people and history it holds. 

We did this project with my Art Brains classes (this session being co-taught with me by the talented  Rachel Schmidt), and my two Art After School classes.  I loved seeing what the kids came up with, especially some of the narratives that were born from it. We looked at a bunch of different maps, both factual and fictional, for inspiration. As it turns out, there is much turmoil in these imagined lands (snake pits! tar rivers! mine fields! rotten banana forests with viscious trash can creatures!) but also some rather lovely places anyone might like to visit, like Rainbow World and Cloud Island, a peaceful paradise with soft cloud beds. Check out a selection of images from the older Art Brains class below, and a few videos of the kids explaining their maps.

Sam's map

 

by Sasson

Andrew

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