Jan & Feb 2025: Exhibition Prep
Intro
Here’s a list of all the wonderful things you’ve done this year. We will be spending the next few weeks preparing them for display! Think of fun, interactive ways to display them for your exhibition.
Guide
Make a Plan for the exhibition:
Design an exhibition experience and plan to break up the work into 5 major themes. Each theme could have its own area or installation. Here is what was discussed in Jan 2025
Theme 1 - STREET FURNITURE -garden
Street furniture from mini exhibition
Make a bird feeder type platform or plant pot holder with a board to display the mini street furniture
voleyball net, hopsotch
Volleyball net and hopscotch by the tree
Best is to recreate what was done for the mini exhibition, and make additions to it for extra work. it was very successful!
Theme 2 - PAPER CRAFTS -garden
Deepavali and Vesak Lanterns
Origami - lanterns
Paper Towers
Paper Jewellery and Hats
Deepavali, Origami and Vesak lanterns will be hanging on the staircase
Paper jewellery and hats will be on a jewellery seller dummy mid way on the staircase
Need a dummy and a big jacket to dress it
Interactive segment: students can show guests how to make origami
Theme 3 -ART FOR THE SENSES - Location TBD
Draw to music
Two spectrums where the artworks would be hanging - with heavy and light music
Equipment - two speakers
Interactive segment: students can ask guests to join for a drawings session and hang it up!
Smell and Texture Art
Keep the artworks covered (smell) and keep the smell-inspired object close by. Ask the visitor to imagine what the smell would look like
Texture Art - have blindfolds ready for the visitors to be able to pick up the object and imagine what it looks like
Keep the texture tiles to lead to the street furniture
Blindfolds and covers for the artworks
Musical Instruments
On a table
Theme 4 - THE ART OF STORYTELLING - Art class
Everyday Patterns
Show the artwork to the children and generate a story for it
The story will be displayed alongside the artworks - make a giant book out of bristol board for it
Mural and flipbook
mural to be highlighted
Personality Portrait
Stop Motion
Interactive segment: students can setup a stop motion setup and use a phone and demonstrate how it’s done.
Shadow: Puppets (only if there is time)
Theme 5- THE ART OF THE FUTURE - Art class
Animals
Nagaswhatte 2040
Make a cityscape with all of these elements - wire the buildings with Christmas
Use the “Build Your City” bristol board mural as a backdrop
Vision board
Flags
My life in another country
Imagine the future art
Theme 6 - GENERAL ART GALLERY
Can be the corridor from the library
All other artworks
2. Timeline:
Feb 2, 9, 16: Complete old Art work. Here is what remains:
1. Stop motion
2. Dream catcher
3. Street furniture/repair
4. Nagahaswatte 2040 /repair
5. Tamil origami - palm leaf weaving- Thoranaam
6. Life in another country
7. Clay work?
Feb 23, March 2, 8: Prepare exhibition installations
3. Final Touches
Day before exhibition: March 08: Set up all the outside installations, set up workshop booths and add final touches.
Exhibition Day: March 09
Here’s a reminder of what you’ve achieved in 2023 and 2024!
For past exhibition photos, see below: