(This post was blatantly taken directly from the preschool newsletter)
Your children have been very enthusiastic about our study of Andy Goldsworthy. We started our exploration of environmental art by examining the textures, shapes and patterns evident in the natural world. We considered nature as a means for inspiration (as in images in the clouds) and as a tool for creation (with apple prints, rock spirals, natural mandalas and more).
Due to the ephemeral nature of environmental art there have been few examples of your children’s work that we can send home. This process of creation, and then giving our work back to the natural world, is a key, if challenging aspect of Goldsworthy’s work. Rather than trying to preserve and protect his creations, Goldsworthy says that nature makes more of his work than he could have ever dreamed possible.
In order to share his creations with the world, Andy Goldsworthy relies on photography. We purchased three digital cameras for the children to use, and last week we took small groups out on walks around the neighborhood to practice using them. Next week the children will have the opportunity to document their art with photographs.
– Jessica and Molly
Andy Goldsworthy is a British environmental artist and photographer living in Scotland. He creates sculptures in natural and urban settings, generally using only the tools and materials which he finds on site.
“We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.” – Andy Goldsworthy
Rainbow Mountain is proud to be a sponsor for Sunday night’s Asheville’s Artist for a Global Village at the Orange Peel
Come join “Everything Counts” and Asheville Artists as we rock and funk out, and raise money to send Rainbow’s own Andi Morrell and her daughter to Bali where they will live and work to grow at the internationally renowned Green School whose unique earth-based educational program draws families, scholars and media from around the world. Support the growth of a revolutionary and absolutely necessary new kind of education. We are a Global Village; we must connect children all over the world and educate them about preserving the environment in a way that makes sense. Andi will connect the children from schools in Asheville to the International pool of children at Green School Bali. Whether or not you know Andi or her daughter, come and join the party!
Come and party with Gift of Gab and some of Asheville’s most talented artists! Zansa, Josh Phillips, Josh Blake’s Jukebox, Caitlin Krisko and Lotion, Juan Holladay from Secret B-Sides, Agent 23, Ben Hovey, and members of Yo Mamas Big Fat Booty Band. There will be a silent auction to the right of the stage, and an art show to the left of the stage. All in the middle, there will be some booty shakin’!
$20 (advance ticket/ $22 at the door) includes 2 drink tickets per customer, for complimentary beer or non-alcoholic beverage. Show starts at 8 pm
Everything Counts is “an organization who provides information and encouragement to children, families and educators in order to broaden their understanding of the direct and indirect role children can have in the conservation of their environment.”
Our preschoolers love the tricycles. They ride them everyday; morning, noon, and after school. They have an oval loop they ride, chalk arrows pointing which way to go. Watching them will make you dizzy. I often have to walk by very quickly before the train of tricycles catches me.
All the riding can wear out, not the preschooler, but the trike. This happened just recently when our tandem tricycle snapped in two. Oh no! We weren’t down just one ride but a two seater.
To the rescue our most pleasant West Asheville neighbor, Organic Mechanic. They took our broken tricycle and cleaned it, welded it and returned her better than new. They are heroes!
This June we had five graduating eighth graders. Each graduate is required to give a speech at graduation. Each graduate decides their theme, writes drafts and revisions and practices until 6:30 that night, when dressed in an outfit that may not have been of their choosing, standing in front of their families and all the Rainbow families they ignore their fear of public speaking and wow us over with their insights, confidence, and wisdom.
I will miss all of the 2011 graduates and wish them the best experience in high school. Namaste, Adriana, Conor, Duncan, Ben and Mars.
(The sound quality is poor on the first video and on the first half of the second video but after that, we’re good)
(This post was blatantly taken directly from the preschool newsletter)
