Zero Dollar Art Department
Why would someone need to buy materials for a project that can be done with things in their own trash bin? Budgets for art departments are decreasing all over the nation forcing teachers to think of alternative ways to create projects. What if art departments were set up to naturally run on these alternative ways in the first place?
Creating an art department that runs almost solely off of recycled and discarded materials does not mean that every lesson is about
recycled artists or that every project involves some plastic drink container. Creating an art department that exploits the many uses of recycled, discarded, and even found materials means studying the same artists and doing the same projects as any other art department while at the same time using less money and up-cycling many materials.
This website is here to help other art educators transform their departments so that if and when their departments' budgets get greatly slashed they will already be ahead of the game. Creating a zero dollar art department means that excess and discarded materials are being gathered from the community for the benefit of the students and their art projects. Items such as pop cans and old tooth brushes have a second wind at life as tools and canvases at the hands of young artists. This website is a guide for attaining materials, setting up lessons, and finding the most use out of the most useless object.
After going through the website there is a survey below to fill out. This survey will help continue to build the website into the future.
Creating an art department that runs almost solely off of recycled and discarded materials does not mean that every lesson is about
recycled artists or that every project involves some plastic drink container. Creating an art department that exploits the many uses of recycled, discarded, and even found materials means studying the same artists and doing the same projects as any other art department while at the same time using less money and up-cycling many materials.
This website is here to help other art educators transform their departments so that if and when their departments' budgets get greatly slashed they will already be ahead of the game. Creating a zero dollar art department means that excess and discarded materials are being gathered from the community for the benefit of the students and their art projects. Items such as pop cans and old tooth brushes have a second wind at life as tools and canvases at the hands of young artists. This website is a guide for attaining materials, setting up lessons, and finding the most use out of the most useless object.
After going through the website there is a survey below to fill out. This survey will help continue to build the website into the future.