At CAHTS: The "Peace for Paterson" Project and Much More STEAM Art!

The "Peace for Paterson" STEAM Project LINK is evolving in several Paterson Public Schools.

For example, at CAHTS, Art Teacher Ms. Reyes and Art PIR Triada Samaras have recently worked together to learn how to fold paper cranes. Now Ms. Reyes is teaching her students to make these birds.  There are many sequential directions involved in this project, and geometry and fine motor skills are used throughout.

 

In another project Ms. Reyes' students are learning to draw urban building-scapes on large sheets of drawing paper, using pencils, erasers, rulers, triangles, and the principles of two-point perspective. 

"Perspective (from Latin: perspicere to see through) is an approximate representation, on a flat surface (such as paper), of an image as it is seen by the eye. The two most characteristic features of perspective are that objects are smaller as their distance from the observer increases; and that they are subject to foreshortening, meaning that an object's dimensions along the line of sight are shorter than its dimensions across the line of sight.
Italian Renaissance painters and architects including Filippo Brunelleschi, Masaccio, Paolo Uccello, Piero della Francesca and Luca Pacioli studied linear perspective, wrote treatises on it, and incorporated it into their artworks, thus contributing to the mathematics of art."  


















In another STEAM project at CAHTS, Ms. Samaras and Ms. Reyes have curated and installed an exhibition of art students' work in the display case on the second floor.  This exhibit consisted of works that were drawn using mathematical formula 5-35-5 (LINK) and other works that were created using printmaking to form patterns. 

 

                  

 

Lastly, Ms Reyes and her STEAM art students are exploring weaving with yarn and cardboard looms.  

Students are learning that, "Weaving is a method of textile production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth. Similar methods are knitting, felting, and braiding or plaiting. The longitudinal threads are called the warp and the lateral threads are the weft or filling. (Weft or woof is an Old English word meaning "that which is woven".) The method in which these threads are inter woven affects the characteristics of the cloth."  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaving)