I love helping students to find authentic audiences and purposes for everything they do. As a result, I think the new promotion from www.threadless.com, entitled “Threadless 101,” is a cool opportunity for students of all ages to gain a genuine audience for their artwork.
In Threadless’ own words:
“Looking for an innovative project to spice up your curriculum? We can help! We at Threadless would like to introduce you to a unique art and design project developed especially for you and your students: Threadless 101. In Threadless 101, students are assigned to create an original design for a tee shirt. Their designs are critiqued and voted on by the class and the student with the highest scored design will not only be featured in our Threadless newsletter, but also awarded a Threadless Gift Certificate.”
Sounds more interesting that just hanging artwork up in the hallway to me.
March 7, 2009 at 9:39 pm |
I’ve been reading your blog for the past few weeks and I especially liked your commentary on how school should have authentic projects– contributing to the real world in some way– and a friend sent me a link to a 10-year-old graffiti artist named Solveig. I thought you might want to see her art — http://www.flickr.com/photos/supersolveig/
the telegraph did a photo essay on her here– http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4679839/Girl-graffiti-artist-10-is-the-female-Banksy.html
I would never have dared to think that this is possible when I was 10.