Every year the Bloomsburg Fair comes into town for a week. This fair attracts many locals, but also many tourists. That being said, they have a little something for everyone. While you can play games and go buy food, you can also watch a concert, look through shops, visit the animals,ride the rides or tour the buildings. One of the special things about this fair is that they exhibit lots of local works. You could go see what each school and grade presented from their students.
The most recent Bloomsburg fair, the Bloomsburg art students were presented with the theme for this year's “fair project”. The “theme” was “lamp”. This left many students stumped. Lamp? The theme is lamp? Dr Jones has been the art teacher here since the beginning of this school year, while Ms Bowes is home with her baby. Dr Jones has been very active in trying to give the students new ways to explore art and different ways to use it. When some students were not sure exactly what to make of this project's theme, he said “Lamp, anything lamp.” deciding what a lamp was, was up to the students. Some decided that meant a painting, some chose to construct a lamp of their own.
Since the theme of this project had many confused, Dr Jones was prepared to help the young artists come up with something. When both Dr Jones and Ms Bowes were debating potential project themes, they chose “lamps” because “We wanted to do something unique that no one else was doing” , Dr Jones explained. As the students began to create, he was surprised to see many of the young artists were not building as he had expected, but they were painting, drawing and sculpting. “My favorite part of watching them brainstorm was getting to help them realize they could make something other than a traditional lamp. It could be different, it can be any way you can think of to depict a lamp. What is a lamp? How will you show what a lamp is?” Dr Jones said. If he had to create a lamp for this project he would have created an octopus figure out of copper wiring lamp and the tentacles would have held the light bulbs.
One student, Lea Albrecht, knew what she wanted to make immediately. So she began to sculpt the body of an angler fish for the lamp. Lea knew she wanted to make an angler fish lamp immediately because they produce their own light which isn't common so they thought this would be perfect for this project. Since Lea works with clay often, she knew what she was doing and how she needed to do it. She rated the project a 7/10 difficulty, it took about three weeks in all. The materials used were Piping metal straws, clay and then different supports and fairy lights. “The teeth were definitely the most difficult part, one broke in the building process. It was all very fragile.” She shared. Though of course it all came together in the end. Lea’s angler fish lamp named Bracelet.
Another student, Baker, took on a different approach. Baker created a lantern inspired by Chinese lanterns. It was built with paper and decorated with petals and leaves. This project took about a week and half to create. “ I think that figuring out how I was going to achieve what I wanted to create was most difficult.” Baker’s usual medium is classic paint and canvas so this was branching out and trying something all new.
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