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Set designers begin with small white models and then develop the models into something more elaborate.
Dance - Artopia
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Artopia
Artopia is a comprehensive web-based arts experience designed for middle school students, covering the visual and performing arts.
Visual and Performing Arts for Grades 6-8
Artopia is a comprehensive web-based arts experience designed for middle school students, covering the visual and performing arts. Students will learn art history via animated one-minute movies, be guided on how to closely examine important works of art, and view videos of professional artists at work.This project was supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Please note many of the web videos include transcripts.
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After a lot of hard work, the set for Dancing at Lughnasa is finally ready. Gross explains why he loves his craft.
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Gross describes how he gets started on his creative process to design a set.
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Winston Wingo talks about two very classical styles of sculpture.
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Winston Wingo shares how he produces a sculpture from clay. From the clay original, he produces a mold for the wax casting .
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Kristin Gudjonsdottir demonstrates another way to flatten out clay by using a rolling pin. She also demonstrates how she uses a sculpting knife.
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Kristin Gudjonsdottir demonstrates how she flattens out the clay to make extra pieces.
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Kristin Gudjonsdottir demonstrates how she connects the pieces of her sculpture together.
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Visit a rehearsal of the 2004/2005 Trustus production of The Rocky Horror Show and meet director Randy Hanna and choreographer Anita Ashley. Trustus is a small professional theatre in Columbia, South...
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Winston Wingo explains how he begins his sculpture with a series of drawings. He then selects a drawing that he wants to bring into a three dimensional artform.
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Winston Wingo explains the process and the tools needed to chase or provide a finishing for a bronze sculpture.
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Von Howard explains the complex relationship between classical and modern dance styles and how he incorporates the difference influences.
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John Douglas Scollon, the executive director of the Columbia Marionette Theatre, discusses what it is like to work at the theater.
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Christian von Howard talks about his work style when it comes to choreography. Von Howard uses athletic, aerial movement in his work influenced by a great variety of styles.
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Watch the lost wax process from creating a mold to pouring hot wax to breaking the mold to retrieve the final piece.
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Cecil Williams discusses each of his first cameras and his beginnings in the business.
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Winston Wingo demonstrates his process for polishing a sculpture to get the finished look he desires.
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Winston Wingo explains that he considers himself one of the Futurist sculptors. His influences include Henry Moore, Umberto Boccioni, and Arnaldo Pomodoro.
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Cecil Williams owns Cecil Williams Photography in Orangeburg, South Carolina. He explains how his profession has evolved over the years.
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Heidi Darr Hope grew up in a family of artists. She decided to take some art classes as an adult. As she grew in her art, her studio has also evolved as well.
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Heidi Darr-Hope shares an area of her yard that used to be a barbeque pit that she turned into a mosaic shrine.
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude have collaborated on works of art since 1961. Their most recent work is The Gates, Central Park, New York City, 1979-2005 . Although The Gates remained in Central Park for...
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Like many actors, Tobolski was drawn to theater at a young age. She explains how she turned her passion into a career.
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Heidi Darr Hope talks about how much she has loved collecting objects since she was a child. She was really thrilled to start using objects from her collections in her art work.
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