Exploring balance

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What do you know about balance?

Practice balance with your body.

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Choose random wood pieces. Build and balance a structure.

What does symmetrical mean?

Is the structure you built symmetrical? 

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Does a balanced structure have to be symmetrical?

Test your idea. What does asymmetrical mean?

Show how a structure can balance and be asymmetrical.

Dream Something Big

LA Art Tour 

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 Simon Rodia’s Towers of Watts, Los Angeles, California

Between 1921 and 1955, Simon Rodia transformed discarded objects and a dream to “Do something big” into the Towers of Watts, now on the National Register of Historic Places.

Rodia was a pioneer of reusing materials. His story of dreaming possibilities, initiative and perseverance will inform our explorations in the art room in the coming weeks.