Mobiles

The children and I watched a film about Alexander Calder from a series called Portraits in Creativity--The Artists that I checked out from the Ann Arbor Public Library. It was inspiring and refreshing to see the life of an artist who so freely and happily produced art his entire life. He knew his priority was to make art, and couldn't be bothered even with talking about it. He only had two shirts in his wardrobe because he couldn't be bothered with that as well. As a child he had wire and other materials on hand, and the circus pieces were early work in his career. Even the mobiles we see over baby cribs would not be in our lives if it weren't for Calder.

I hung string from the ceiling that the students could work from to create mobiles.