Jane Perkins

Another assemblage artist you all might like is Jane Perkins! Here is an article about her. She uses recycled and found objects to create very lifelike portraits. As part of my first graders "Recycled Art" curriculum theme I thought a little group assemblage would be nice. Our school mascot is the warrior so I thought it would be a good image because it is recognizable and simple enough with limited colors. I did the under painting so they would know what colors go where and sorted a bunch of recycled and found objects into color groups. Then the students took turns one table at a time to come and add their objects to the assemblage.

Jillian Kogan Assemblage

I found this great flag assemblage artist Jillian Kogan. Here is her website http://www.jilliankogan.com She is a California artist that uses found objects to recreate the California flag. Our second graders are learning about "Community" as their curriculum theme so I decided that we should do a collaborative Pennsylvania assemblage with found objects that relate to our state. (The PA flag is a little complicated so we decided to do a white tailed deer instead, because it is the state mammal) If you look closely you can see some Penn State, Hershey's, Heinz, Rutter's objects for example.  The students all got a scavenger hunt paper with different PA objects and the person who brought in the most objects from home won a prize. We got some great stuff and the kids and parents were very creative. We even got some real deer antlers!