September 14, 2010

By: James I. from St Paul, MN
Comments: 12

Posted By: James Iliff
On: 2/26/2009 3:02:32 PM

We are working on a project called ARTSBUILD in the Twin Cities. Imagine building a sculpture out of 4000 (full) cans of soup. The students come up with themes for the sculptures, plan how it will be built, make various sketches and CAD representations of it and then present all of this to a committee of architects, artists and engineers who give feedback. At the end of May the cans are shipped to downtown St Paul and the student teams begin building their sculptures. This is our first year participating in the program but we have seen examples on their website that look amazing. I would recommend the program to any art, tech teacher who likes to get their students working on big, fun projects.

Posted By: Daniel Nelson
On: 2/26/2009 8:56:50 PM

Go for it.

Posted By: Joanne Toft
On: 2/26/2009 9:22:32 PM

This sounds like an interesting project that I would like to share with more teachers. Where can I get more information on it? thanks I tried googling ARTSBUILD but did not have any luck.

Posted By: James Iliff
On: 2/27/2009 7:10:05 AM

I think you can google ARTSBUILD. But I will check on it.

Posted By: Daniel Nelson
On: 2/28/2009 5:54:30 PM

This is the website: https://www.ordway.org/festival/projects/school/artbuilds.asp

Posted By: Frederick Smith
On: 3/3/2009 7:34:40 PM

This sounds neat! I'm going to have to check it out. Thanks for the website.

Posted By: cheri Bedard
On: 3/4/2009 12:55:33 PM

That sounds really neat. It sounds like a great design project for your kids. I am sure they are having a great time and learning a lot about the design process. Heck, I would love to do a project like that. You will definitely have to post pictures.

Posted By: Timothy McGary
On: 3/24/2009 4:06:27 PM

This project sounds like a great effort to promote not only a great piece of art but also recyclingin your community. Love the idea and with look furthur into it. Let me know how it turns out.

Posted By: lv xiaok
On: 9/14/2010 10:54:43 PM

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