Dear Parents,
All grades had a great time doing Day of the Dead activities, including masks and sugar skulls. In November we will be studying the artist Andrea Zittel.
All grades will be designing their own escape vehicle or floating manmadepopsicle sticks, yarn, and clay. The kids are very excited about this project! In the early 1990s, Andrea Zittel began making art in response to her own surroundings and daily routines, creating functional objects that fulfilled the artist’s needs relating to shelter, food, furniture, and clothing. She produced her first "Living Unit"--an experimental structure intended to reduce everything necessary for living into a simple, compact system—as a means of facilitating basic activities within her 200-square-foot Brooklyn storefront apartment. In order to make customized "Living Units" and other usable artworks available to contemporary consumers, Zittel launched the one-woman corporation, A-Z Administrative Services. While some of her modernist-inspired products were designed with the intention of making daily routines easy and efficient, others, such as the pod-like "Escape Vehicles," appealed to fantasies of isolating oneself from the outside world.
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