In the fall of 2017, John Ravenal, Director of deCordova, challenged the LNS faculty to create a piece for the sculpture park based on our work with the children. This fortuitously coincided with our umbrella topic:
“Believing takes practice.” –A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
While inspired by our recent visit to Saul Melman’s Best of All Possible Worlds piece featuring doors, it’s interesting to note that we’ve gravitated to thinking about this particular feature of houses. Why do we have
Turns out constructing a pool IS hard work. It has been wonderful to see small groups of children working together towards this end, encountering problems, negotiating solutions with the larger group, and ultimately constructing something that
I’d hammer in the morning… Nails can bend too. So, you might want to be careful. Graeme Cuz it’s in the crack, and if it sticks we’re going to pull them out like this(using the claw).
The last time we visited the Linde Gallery, Ian McMahon was still in the process of installing his piece, Tether. We felt it was time to introduce the children to the finished artwork. With so many
Last week, after sharpening their pencils to a precise point, both Alex and Avery discovered they could make patterns by pushing the point through the paper rather than drawing on it. With the holes revealed they
Just as they have done throughout the year, the children pause and bring to life those spaces in between within the Sculpture Park. During our last nature walk, we first stopped at Secret Tree, dubbed so
Who doesn’t love settling down with a good book? Visit any LNS studio and you will see carefully curated shelves enticing the children sit and look, wonder, imagine and learn. After lunch is over we invite the
