In 3rd Grade art, we read “Magic Trash”, a short story about the artist Tyree Guyton – his childhood and how he came to be the creator of the Heidelberg project in East side Detroit. Students discussed various reasons artists might use recycled materials to create and how art can build, and rebuild, communities. Now, we are in the process of building and painting our own recycled material ‘houses’. We have so many innovative ideas for our mixed media artworks, I can’t wait to display them all!
A shout out of THANKS to Arts N’ Scraps, Detroit, for providing a wealth of recycled, repurposed materials to work with in our art. A second big THANK YOU to the William Ford lunch and kitchen staff for recycling and collecting chip boards for students to paint and build on.
