About

Art. Food. Community. is an arts integration and enrichment project taking place at the Thompson Elementary School in Arlington, MA during the spring of 2015. Two ceramic artists and educators (Eileen de Rosas and Melody Wolfe Thomas)  are collaborating with teachers to develop individualized workshops that utilize the ceramic arts as a means to deepen understanding of other areas of the curriculum. (e.g. Japanese tradition for grade 2 and Rocks and Minerals for Grade 4).  Students will participate in a ceramic bowl making workshop plus a glazing workshop for each class.  Students will create 2 ceramic bowls, one to keep and one to donate to Arlington EATS, a non profit organization working to alleviate food insecurity in Arlington.

Arlington EATS will be hosting a community meal and Empty Bowls event on May 16, 2015.

This project is generously funded by the Arlington Cultural Council and The Arlington Education Foundation and supported by the Thompson School PTO.

 

 

About the Artists

Eileen de Rosas is a practicing ceramic artist and teacher.  She currently teaches at the New Art Center in Newton, Mudflat Pottery School and Summer Studios at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.  Her work is featured in the upcoming show “Ceramics en MASSe” at the Bunker Hill Community College art gallery, the Fuller Craft Museum gift shop and Three Wheel Studio in Providence, RI.  She has a BFA from Parsons School of Design.

 

 

Melody Wolfe Thomas attended Virginia Tech and Radford University. She holds a master’s degree in art and is a certified art educator. She has taught in public, private and museum settings.  Melody currently develops art and nature programming for Mass Audubon and is a faculty member of Mudflat Pottery School and the Arlington Center for the Arts.

 

This project is supported by grants from the Arlington Cultural Council, a division of the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and from The Arlington Education Foundation.