Artist+in+Residence+2012

** We are excited to have bookmaking artist, Mimi Shapiro, at Pine Street Elementary for three days in early February. Here's what Ms. Shapiro has to say about bookmaking: **Students will have the opportunity to make simple books and see how becoming a paper engineer has a myriad of applications in classroom learning situations. Being creative helps the child to be independent, flexible and imaginative. Children become more receptive to their senses, they tend to see more, feel more, and absorb more of what is around them. Writing helps students to become more responsive to their inner and outer worlds, which helps make learning more interesting and challenging for the individual. Art is a total activity involving many thinking skills and all the senses. Students will experience making a variety of books and dimensional structures. Teaching book arts and construction of simple folded or sewn papers into a book is a way to integrate art forms into other subject areas - math and writing skills as well as conceptualization techniques for the students.
 * February 6,7,8, 2012 - Bookmaking with Mimi Shapiro **

**// What will the students know/be able to do/ and appreciate as a result of this residency? //** • Be able to make several book forms from a single piece of paper • Be able to make a book with sewn binding and a pop-up-book • Have ideas for extending the creative thought process to other subject areas • Feel comfortable with using these new art forms • Encourage individual problem solving and critical thinking • Concentration, following directions then applying new knowledge to other areas • Every student will leave with the samples he/she has made, that will help him/her to remember the process of making these structures • Consider a book structure as a container for their ideas, poems & drawings • Appreciate writing and the change into child’s imagination as a way to express feeling about what is going on in daily life and using this a basis for a the story - personal narrative is also a way to enhance students self-esteem in learning

**//Click on PHOTOS to view photos of the process!//**