3rd Grade - Visit 3

Third graders had a "heavy metal" art experience looking at the welded metal sculptures of artist Melvin Edwards. We focused on the artist's use of materials including scrap metal and familiar objects as well as his love of jazz music.

Visit 3 Vocabulary:

Weld / Soldar
Homage / El Homenaje
Chain / La Cadena
Movement / El Movimiento
Suspend / Suspender
Familiar / Familiar

Meet Melissa Gonzales, our new Gallery Teacher for GROW!

We looked at works from Melvin Edwards's Lynch Fragments series, like this one: Some Bright Morning, 1963.

We also looked at rockers created by Edwards. This video from a recent gallery show demonstrates how they can move!