Clinton Elementary School's Comet Arts Program
(W)=active weblink

Project one:
The Jekyll and Hyde Poetry Jam
*Based upon Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
*The Hulk comics were inspired by Jekyll and Hyde
(new video game out now: Incredible Hulk Ultimate Destruction)
*Kids could perform LIVE during an open mic: (W) meadowlark coffee in Lincoln
or check with (W)Poetry Menu and (W)Crescent Moon Coffee
*Create a LIVE digital recording/mix at school for CD creation; sell, distribute and give copies to (W)local library and/or school media center
(rental: (W)Midwest Sound & Lighting)Price list:

2 shure sm-58 mics with stands...$20.00
1 4 mic input mixer...$20.00
1 dat deck...$35.00
patch cables
1 fostex cd recorder...$65.00

*Chapbook creation to sell at Art Auction in the Fall/distribute
*The prison yard scene in (W)Slam: the movie on DVD
*National Poetry Day is October 6
*Marc Smith ("Slampappy"); in 1986 Marc Smith, Jean Howard, and Ron Gillette co-produced the first "Uptown Poety Slam" at the Green Mill Lounge in Chicago.
*The idea of Real Fake Violence: reality shows vs. real life, cartoons, violence, etc.
(this is a possible new project by itself)
*Good and Bad; good and evil; emotion wheel; moods and control
Create emotion wheel or instead of (W)Batman's two-face, create an "Emotional 10 head"
*"You mess with me, you mess with all of me."; morphing into different personas
*writing, reading, editing, flow of written word, etc.
(W): NEA: Poetry Slam Hits Schools with Literary Force
(W): NEA Classroom Management: Poetry Slam at school

CLICK HERE for two interesting poems: Cartoons are My Life and a piece by artist Jackson Pollack
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Project two:
How goes your logos?
*Modern Hieroglyphics; pictograms in street signage
(W) ongoing community photography project about signs
*corporations and logos; supermarkets and buying
(W) Pioneer 10 sent into space with an attached "pictogram" message; what message would you send into space?
Vocabulary words such as: abbreviation, acronym, glyph, scribe, pictogram, etc.
*identity and character
*PR and marketing; "Made you Look" book
(above: Ben Shahn, 1957)
*copyrights; creative commons new impact
*Map Clinton area for number of outside logos/signs
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Project three:
Sand
*Sand Artist (W) Ferenc Cako
*Building a large indoor sandbox
*create "the outdoors inside" with 3D landscape created with objects (model trees, cars, clay figures, etc.) and use as a drawing and digital pic source



*work on a lighted table to "perform" sand drawing
*Video performances/projection for final
(W) Chokwe People in South-Central Africa
*Discussion: The idea of someone "drawing a line in the sand".
*Werner Herzog's (W)Wheel of Time DVD
*Lime/sand painted symbols of protection; hearts from amorgos; greek islands
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Project four:
Japanese & American Cartoon Art
This project is based on the Exploring the Artists list created for Cartoon Art Jam. The Summer Cartoon Art Jam was an art project with three parts blending together: a weblog, a five-day art workshop for the (W)Bright Lights International exchange program with students from Senshu Matsudo University Junior High School in late June and a variety of artworks created in the surrounding neigborhoods and streets.

This list focuses on American artists, regionalism, Japanese artists and the Edo Period. So much of what these artists represent is inspiration to others; everyone of them is important and influenced everything we see today. For example: American cartoonist/animators (W)Walt Disney and (W)Max Fleischer inspired (W)Osamu Tezuka and his artwork in Japan.

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE LIST



related WEBLINKS:
Lamiek
Wooster Collective
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Project five:
Interactive
*Videogame inspired art
*role playing games; real life gaming
(W): iam8bit art show