Corinth Artist Kendra Schieber is conducting a three-week residency through Friday, May 19, with fourth grade students at Corinth Elementary School to teach design principles and help students create a large-scale banner to commemorate the Town of Corinth Bicentennial (2018).
The workshop, “Signs by Hand — Corinth Celebrates 200 Years,” will teach children about the history of writing and the important role that signs have played throughout human history. The students will learn about the earliest petroglyphs and pictographs of the Paleolithic and Mesolithic people.
Students will have the opportunity to learn simple lettering styles and making tools from felt and clothespins, pencils and rubber bands. They will use mathematics to determine lettering sizes and spacing. They will make their own ink with Chinese stick inks and from the indigenous black walnut tree. They will also study local history in order to incorporate that into the designs they will create.
Schieber was awarded a $1,800 Arts in Education Grant from Saratoga Arts for her workshop.
The culmination of the artist residency will be students working on their own ideas and designs for the large-scale banner that will be placed across Main Street or Route 9N. Students will present their banner to the Corinth Village Board on Thursday, May 17, and the Corinth Town Board on Thursday, June 8.