by zwackart | May 8, 2011 | Recent Projects
This year I won a Crossroads grant to create a tile mosaic and work with Robert Salvato, a skilled wood working artist to create a bench for a public park in Erin, NY. Below are some images from my process of making it. It is now complete and about to be installed....
by zwackart | Apr 15, 2011 | In the Classroom
This past Wednesday, I met with four classes of third graders at Van Etten elementary school in Van Etten, New York. We talked about the fact that both scientists and artists need to use their skills of observation in their work. We used pencil, colored pencil, and...
by zwackart | Mar 3, 2011 | Inspiration
I am so grateful to have gotten to visit New Zealand and stay with Kiwis! One distinct advantage is that not only did our host in the far north, Peter Visser, know the region and what would be interesting to see and do, he knew the people! It was our very good luck...
by zwackart | Oct 22, 2010 | In the Classroom
Ben Franklin Elementary School, in Binghamton, NY, decided to make up a fable about how the skunk got it’s stripe. They called on renown storyteller Regi Carpenter to help Ms. Culligan’s class of second graders develop their tale. They called me in to help...
