Have you heard about our Rococo Shoe Project in art class?
One-of-a-kind shoes are being designed by the 8th graders based on the Rococo Period of the 18th century. (A time when fashions and reproductions of paintings leaned toward the extravagant, elegant and elaborate.) The pair of shoes had to coordinate or look as if they belonged together, and have a theme or motif. The students have been sealing canvas parts of shoes with gesso, spraying paint, brushing acrylics, adding glitz, bows, sequins, feathers, pipe cleaners, colored toothpicks and even trash to their shoes to pull off their themes. The shoes are unique to say the least. All shoes will be named by their owners by the time they are finished, too. We'll then plan a day for the shoes to be worn at school when they will be judged by a "distinguished panel of experts". Definitely fun, wearable and high-impact art, the shoes will make quite a show!
I'll post pictures later, and I'll be sure to put the "best of show" on display in the second floor hallway and bridge areas.
