Andrea Skyberg

Artist/Author/Educator

School Tours, Author Visits, and Art Workshops at the Gallery!

Over the past two weeks I’ve been working with students from four different schools and sharing the story of my newest book Shimmerling. We did a little bit of meditation,

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Shimmerling Residency: Metal Engraved Feathers

Over the past two weeks students in the 1st – 3rd grades at West Side Academy have been working on designing and engraving three metal feathers to be used on

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Ragadoodles: : Masking tape dolls

Students created Ragadoodles (small dolls) out of masking tape and a other materials and created a small book that accompanies their Ragadoodle. These books used inventive words and figurative language

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Imagination Running Wild: Animal Molas

School: St John the Evangelist 1st-4th grade students Educating Artist: Andrea Skyberg Students created Mola designs which were modeled after the Molas created by the Kuna Woman from Panama. Each student represented

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Pipsqueaks: Masking tape sculptures

School: St John the Evangelist 5th -8th grade students Educating Artist: Andrea Skyberg Students created Pipsqueak characters out of masking and duct tape, similarly to that of my children’s book, Snickeyfritz.

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The Search for ‘I’ in Family: Altered Books

School: St John the Evangelist 5th -8th grade students Educating Artist: Andrea Skyberg Some families are created by blood, while others are created by choice or circumstance, in this project students created an family

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It’s Written All Over My Face: Paper pulp relief sculptures

School: Cooper School 1st Grade Students Educating Artist: Andrea Skyberg Cooperating Teachers: Roxanne Reszel & Katherine MacKenzie Funded by: Arts@Large Can your face tell a story without you even saying

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Wings & Roots: The Unity of Spirit in the Arctic

Project: Milwaukee County Zoo Fantastic Forest of Holiday Trees School: Cooper Elementary Student Council Continent: Arctic Educating Artist: Andrea Skyberg Cooperating Teachers: Dawn Bigalk, Chris McCoy, Jackie Pollman Funded by: Arts@Large Inspired

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