My students need basic jewelry pliers to safely and properly make their own wire jewelry.
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Twist, coil, bend, curl and cut, and shape! My students want to make their own wire sculpture jewelry dating back to the Egyptian pyramids in the fashion of their inspiration artist, Alexander Calder.
My students are active, creative and imaginative young people with a quest to make art any way they can.
Our high school is located in an urban neighborhood in California. Our students mostly come from hard working, low sociol-economic families without the many opportunities offered to communities surrounding ours.
My Project
A set of a basic pliers at each table will provide my students the proper and safe way to work with wire. Our class has collected all types of wire, from easy to handle aluminum to hardware bale. We even have colorful electrical and phone wire in our bins. Now we need the tools to twist, coil, bend, curl, cut and shape wire into fantastic shapes and chains for jewelry fit for a Pharaoh! My students will have the opportunity to learn jewelry making techniques that will enhance eye hand coordination, problem solving and team building, all necessary applications for a successful life long learner.
Alexander Calder is our inspiration artist.
He taught himself how to twist, coil, bend, curl, cut, and shape wire when he was just a young child. While working the family business, Calder's father provided him scraps of metal and wire to play with. From that "play" time, Calder became one of the most famous wire sculpture artists in the world. Who knows, the next Alexander Calder might be in my classroom as my students "play" with wire to create their own unique jewelry sculptures.
Nearly all students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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