Visit Two: PROBLEM SOLVING

Once an artist has a great idea for an artwork, he or she must figure out how to bring that idea to life. This may mean making sketches and plans like architect Renzo Piano did when designing the Nasher building, or it may mean planning how to put the parts of an artwork together for display, like a team of people did when installing Jonathan Borofsky’s Walking to the Sky.

TRY THIS AT HOME: Eco-Art Challenge

Use your problem solving skills to create art using limited materials.
First, find a friend or family member to participate in your challenge.
Next, look around the house to find materials you wouldn’t usually use for art that you can reuse for your project. You could use cereal boxes, dental floss, old newspapers, anything! Just make sure you have permission to use them.
Finally, each person should use these materials to make an artwork. See who can use them most creatively!

PHOTOS




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Looking at Renzo Piano's sketches for the Nasher building.


Learning how Walking to the Sky got into the Garden.


Taking pictures for photo journals.




Designing blueprints for buildings where we can do something we like.














Using problem solving skills to make models of the buildings we designed.