TASK (social distancing version 2020) While we are away from school, my students and I will be making art in a variety of ways. We’ll also be trying to bring joy to our lives. To that end, here are a set of tasks that are meant to inspire creativity, play, and inquiry.
Collaborate, explore, keep going. Do at least one a week and post it on our shared class blog, upreptask.blogspot.com. (Email me so you can get an invitation to be an author on the blog.) Post your documentation along with the text of the prompt. Feel free to add other text.
Find a random photo on your computer, phone or device. Post it on the blog with a descriptive haiku-style poem.
Take a picture of a picture of a picture of a picture of a picture..... how many levels can you get? Post the photo. Have a contest to see who can get the most levels
Think of a song that you can’t stand. Print out the lyrics. Paint over all the worst words, leaving only the ones you like.
Find some Legos in the house and make something RIDICULOUS. Take 2 photos and post them.
Make a really, really, really bad piece of art. But spend at least 30 minutes making it.
Find something that no one in your house wants anymore. Take it apart. Take 5 photos and post them.
Re-create the snapshot featured at the top of this page.
Take the most interesting photo you possibly can of a bowl of cereal.
Pick three foods that have nothing to do with each other. Arrange them in an interesting way. Photograph them in an interesting way (think cropping and lighting).
Use 100 straight lines to draw a design on your canvas. Add color to “taste”
Record 10 different sounds around your house. If you can, edit them together.
Think of an object that you really don’t like. Imagine a “home” for the object and create an image of the scene.
Record a conversation with a friend where you only say one syllable words to each other
Clean out a drawer, box, closet, etc, and make a sculpture of the items you would have otherwise thrown out
Go find someone with whom you DON'T need to social distance. Share a hug for at least 10 seconds. But go for 20.
Do a full on photoshoot with your pet
Take a walk in your neighborhood (or in your house, if you prefer) and take at least 3 pictures of things you see representing each color of the rainbow. Then stitch them together in an app like Photo Collage,