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| Masks! Larger then Life: Our Emotions in Sculpture In fall 2002 academyartworks student made, large scale masks based on the idea of emotions and other masks from around the world. For two weeks the students studied about different types of masks from 20 different cultures and drew initial sketches of what they wanted to express in a huge scale mask. These children (48 of them) worked very hard without much help from me in creating the armature, the papermache layers as well as the finishing and embellishment of their creations. The Children’s Museum contacted me to have an exhibit of these masks in November 2002 and the children were delighted with the chance to exhibit publically. Each mask has it’s own personality as well as a larger family with the others of which it was created with. Our goal with the masks was met on completion however we want to go further with them. We have plans to create a performance art or movable sculpture with them set to music. |
