Andrea Skyberg

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 a word?
If you could taste emotions, what would they taste like? How would they sound, look, smell and feel?

In this three week art and writing residency students explored how facial expressions could tell a story about what they are feeling and they also worked to understand and recognize their own feelings by associating them with their five senses. To showcase their understanding of one emotion students created a six-line poem describing what their emotion tastes like, smells like, looks like, sounds like and feels like.
While creating their relief sculptures students learned about facial feature placement and proportion to create portraits out of paper pulp. Their painted portraits were attached to a colored canvas board which contains a few lines from their poem.

So what does Happy sound like and what does Frustrated look like? What do you think is the color of Scared and what smells like Surprised? Take a look at each creative portrait and see what is written all over their face!