Wire Sculpting

Students at the Carlsbad ArtFarm were asked to express their favorite animals through abstract wire form.  Having many favorites, students decided to combine them together to create a new breed.  Instructor Andrew Sinclair discusses how to explain form through abstract thought and reasoning.  Students formulated explanations behind the metamorphosis of their new animal to express themselves during critic.  The term that were used throughout the class relating to, structure, abstract form, and artistic influences. 

based upon its form this student titled her sculpture
Dr. Seuss

The combination of a duck and horse influenced the birth of
Doris

  

Earth Energy

Earth energy is an installation done by the alpaca students of the Carlsbad ArtFarm.  The intentions from the students was to expose the aura’s of the earth and understand conceptual cycles from where we, as humans, gain our power and strength.  Students used minimal materials to create bursts of earth energy shooting out of the ground to represent the different emotional auras of the earth.  After the installation was complete students discussed the powers of the earth and how we benefit from its different cycles of energy.

Human Goat Project

The Human Goat Project is a collaborative effort of over 100 Art Farm students who experimented with the up and coming idea of street art.  Using different colored string to create graffiti, students express their own style and unique ability to work together to color the walls of the new sanctuary for Picasso, the resident miniature mule of the Art Farm.