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chance,” the artist said, explaining the exercise gave them “a feel for the tools for later work.”
Since her work began at the gallery, Ms. Morris has conducted several different types of sculpture with the students.
The large soapstone bird perched upon the piano was chiseled and shaped by three-year old hands and minds.
“They said the stone looked like a bird,” Ms. Morris said, adding for this reason they carved a bird. With her guidance the children took turns* working on the bird until its final shape was made.
The bird was mounted by Kramer and Eiland in Washington.
Framing another of the children’s work, the woodworkers will frame the complete triptych.
“It’s a series of things,” Ms. Morris said, explaining each group of children worked on the triptych — a series of tiles combined to form one piece — at different levels.
Masks, animal shapes and abstract colors and forms complete the triptych final shape.
“The five-year-old children did the abstracts,” she said, explaining the second group of children did animal shapes and the oldest children made masks.
The clay shapes are then cast into form. The child receives one and one will accent the final form, set on bronze inside a wooden frame.
The triptych will be on display in Ms. Morris’s upcoming October
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