Give Me an OTARI

No excuses they have taken way too long to finish, but they are now done and ready to hang on the fence at the school.

Give me an A

Slowly the tile mural is coming together, the tiles are now attached to the letters. The next stage is to mosaic around the tiles, the plan was to get students to do the mosaic but we have run out of time as the year has shot by.

Tiles

The tile project for the fence is slowly moving on and the letters have been cut, these will be the support for the tiles and each one will be hung on the fence, probably towards the school office.

Tiles

Aimee dropped off the fired tiles from the workshop we did a couple of weeks ago and they are great. Some of them will be worked on further and we plan to start working on the designs students have done for the fence tiles next year.

Tile Workshop

We had the tile workshop today, where we tested out different designs for some tiles that we will be making for the top of the fence posts. Aimee run the workshop and brought all the materials to make the tiles and decorate them. The workshop went very well and at break time more students turned up and had a chance to make some tiles. Once these tiles are completed Aimee and I will plan the rest of the tiles and how to produce the 40 designs students from the school have designed.

Tile Project

The tile project will involve the whole school and local community in designing a series of images to be used to make clay tiles, which will be placed on the 60 or so posts along the fence. (Each tile will be 10cm wide and 15 cm high.)
I visited Aimee McLeod, a potter who has worked with staff at Otari School, she is going to support the project and help with turning designs into tiles and handily she has her own kiln at home, which is not to far from the school.
The intention is to get the students in the art group to run the project and help chose the designs to be made in to the tiles. They will also be working on involving the wider community in the project by letting everyone know what is going on and how to get involved. More information about the tile project will be out soon.
Ideas for the designs will be based on anything that has a connection with the School, local community, local history, Maori settlement in the area and  flora and fauna found in the area. As we are lucky enough to have the Otari Native Reserve next door. which on it's own would provide a wealth of material to use, we shouldn't be short of ideas.
The next few posts will be on tiles and different ways of decorating them, Aimee said that there are many different ways to make and decorate the tiles, so most ideas should be able to be turned into a tile.