2b. Bug Wars

Insects, art, music

It’s a bug-eat-bug world!   We’ll create and draw some of the world’s biggest, creepiest bugs out of tinfoil, tape, and Model Magic clay.  

We’ll learn about their strengths, weaknesses, weapons and abilities as they face each other in battle.  Who will be victorious, the praying mantis or the giant hornet?  In a death duel, will the scorpion’s fierce pincers overcome the fangs of the giant centipede?  Join us to find out.

We'll use 3 picture and story books from the Virginia Museum of Science exhibit.  For a break, we’ll dance to Bug Music by clarinetist Don Byron, featuring music from the 30’s in Duke Ellington's style. 

Instructor: Janet Beals

Janet Beals Orejudos is a process artist, teacher, and facilitator. She has taught in summer camp, year round programs, and Adaptive Recreation with C'ville Parks & Rec, offering 3-14 year olds classes in Beginning and Youth Sculpture, Collage, Home School Art, Paint Like Picasso, and Open Studio. Janet comes from Chicago's Open Studio Project, offering process art and social emotional skills through art to disadvantaged and other diverse populations. Process art, unlike traditional art, focuses on the experience of artmaking rather than the final product. Therefore, there is no "bad art," just a piece with a story or a message. Although classes may have a theme (Dinosaurs, Self Portraits, Dia de los Muertos, Martin Luther King), each child is free to express it in her own way. We honor each child's artistic vision. Classes use unusual materials and techniques when possible, and aim for creativity, learning, and self determination. Janet is open to students with special needs and communication disorders, and children outside the age parameters of the class.