The Herald-Sun from Durham, North Carolina • 19

4 SUNDAY APRIL 7 1996 THE HERALD-SUNRALEIGH EXTRA PAGE 13 SCHOOLS Project teaches students about art recycling Ttn 111 nj luVMltlH 9HIDI YOUNG ARTISTS: Fifth-grade students at Douglas Elementary School display the wire art they created ByKARIC BARLOW Raleigh Extra staff One fifth-grade class at Douglas Et ementaiymay never look at trash the same way again With the help of their art teacher Suzanne Krill the students turned the leftover computer wire into creative sculptures The sculptures are being displayed in media center just stand to throw anything away" she said probably an art teacher in Wake bounty who have their head in a trash The excess wire was being used to install additional computers at Douglas When Krill saw the wire in a trash can one day she thought it would be a good way to teach her students about art and recycling Krill said she chose to use the wire for sculpture to teach her students about body proportions And the project proved to be a challenge firr her as well as her students is not my thing" she said a printmaker so 1 had to make one first and then show it to them" Krill said using the wire also was a good way to reinforce all the information students get about recycling just kind of an ongoing conversation about recycling and not just waiting for Earth Day or she said And fin about eight weeks the students spent their class time and free time stripping the white casing off the tiny red or-ange blue green brown and blade wires Then they wrapped and twisted and shaped the wire into lifelike figures Although sculpting was a new concept for 11-year-old Taishi Takada it take long for him to come up with a subject an alien from outer space and injured" he said about his blue figure with the dangling limbs was hard to make die shape of it but Miss Krill helped Other students placed their sculptures on elaborate wooden bases which they nailed together themselves Jessica Pike 11 placed her figure made of black wire on a tiny wooden couch painted neon pink orange purple and green Her classmate Jeanmarie Goodman 11 placed her figure made of brown and green wire on a brown wooden swing Although they were skeptical at first both girls said they liked using recycled materials for the sculptures think it was neat because just HMW-suxisaoN seem WIRED: Jeanmarie Goodman sits with her wire sculpture made from recycled computer wire The fifth-grade class at Douglas Elementary School spent lots of time preparing the wire for their art project be thrown Jeanmarie laid kind of like saved SCHOOL BRIEFS Wave of Weatbervanes! 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