CLASSES FOR SCHOOLS AND ORGANIZATIONS

LECTURES AND CLASSES FOR ADULTS

General Information: Using historical architecture, Alice takes her audience on a journey through time. Visit the first architects and connect with the first people who understood the importance of surrounding oneself with the beautiful and the sublime. You will hear fascinating stories about the buildings that embody regional and world architectural history. Audiences leave her lectures with a broader appreciation of historical architecture and a deeper understanding of the impact of preserving these works of art.

Topics:
Stories Told By Oregon's Historical Architecture
Historical Ornamental Design
Portland's Historical Architecture
Why Talk to Your House
Building Your Greatest Dream - A Magic Formula
When Buildings Speak
Architectural Art and Design
How to integrate math into your Homeschool Curriculum
The Artistry of Math
Art/Math Curriculum

Lectures, Adult Classes: $500 - $2500

WORKSHOPS

For teachers and school districts: Alice spent the majority of her teaching career developing curriculae that integrates art and mathematics which includes architecture. She offers a wide range of math/art activities and resource materials for teachers to use in their classrooms. Districts can best utilize her services at district inservice days and teacher conferences or retreats.

Teacher Workshops:
Call or email for free estimate:
503-254-3173
alice@artemisillustration.com

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TEACHER WORKSHOP ART AND MATHEMATICAL THINKING

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

Having been a 4th and 5th grade teacher for nine years, a reading/spelling/comprehension/mathematics teacher for six years, and a student in the Middle School Mathematics program at Portland State University, Alice knows how to effectively engage and develop rapport with students. Alice is skilled at working with teachers and students to create projects that embellish current curriculum and student interests. Alice's math/art and architectural activites have proven to be highly engaging and far-reaching for building student skills, comprehension, and concept development in mathematics, architecture and art.

Artist-in-residence: prices vary accordingly - call for estimate
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A NOTE ON PRICES

Since prices can vary greatly depending on the location, the number of classes involved, materials, curriculum requirements,, and so on, please contact her for specific proposal ideas.

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MATH ARTISTRY
ages 10 and up

Expand your understanding of mathematical concepts
as you enhance your artisitc ability.
We will use our imagination and creativity
in a variety of artistic activities as we learn and
apply such mathematical concepts as symmetry, fractions,
decimals, number patterns and measurment.
Join us as we apply our math skills to the making
of a class quilt and the creation and deciphering of a secret code.
You will design and paint tiles for your own room and
create a portfolio of “Math Art.”
Alice Cotton is an architectural artist and
educator who helped pilot the
development of a math/art curriculum in the
West Linn School District and
at Portland State University’s Math Learning Center.
She is the author of the book When Buildings Speak.

Contact Village Home School to register and receive a catalog
www.villagehome.org
503-892-2458

MATHAMANIA
Ages: 5 - 7

Children experience math through play, art and architecture.
We play games, build cities, use our bodies as an abacus and to create counting systems,
learn about ancient mathematical systems, and play/create math games.
In this class math is experienced as an extension of who we are:
intelligent, playful beings.

Contact Village Home School to register and receive a catalog
www.villagehome.org
503-892-2458

ANCIENT GREEK MATH AND ARCHITECTURE

Ages: 10 and up

Students will journey to ancient Greece and create plans for columns using the ancient Greek Orders of architecture.
While there we will use a compass and straight edge approach as we explore some of Euclid's most fascinating
geometrical theorems and proofs. Greek culture will drive us onward to to explore
Greek design patterns that will help us decorate our columns with such things as interlocking circles, waves,
spirals and the ever popular egg and dart patterns that symbolize the beginning and end of life.
Then , for our final project we will turn these columns into painted clay models.
a student's diagram from the activity: Remember Euclid

Contact Village Home School to register and receive a catalog
www.villagehome.org
503-892-2458

GEOMETRY WITH M.C. ESCHER



M.C. Escher was a master at creating art using tesselations, spherical and twisted grid patterns, complex geometrical translations, strange loops and imaginative perspectives. Join us as we create Escher-like art while expanding our understanding of geometry. This class goes beyond tessellation drawing and takes the student into a realm of new perspectives and mind tingling-vision.
Below: An Escher spherical drawing.

Contact Village Home School to register and receive a catalog
www.villagehome.org
503-892-2458
 
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ADVENTURES IN GEOMETRY

Instructor: Alice Cotton
See Village Home catalog for 2007 - 2008

Open your mind to the newest findings in mathematics.
The Moebius strip, Jordan Curve, Kline Bottle, Knot Theory and geometry on a sphere are all areas of transformational geometry that have endless new possibilities for math artists. We will investigate the use of rotation, translation and reflection with geometric shapes. Then we will learn how to use spherical grids, anamorphic grids, and the impossible grids of M.C. Escher to explore new ways to transform our artistic ideas. Included in the Math Artistry (Winter term)
course at Village Home.
 
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www.villagehome.org
503-892-2458

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ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING

Using the architectural tools of mathematics and art, you will learn the art of perspective drawing, including drawing in three dimensions. You may draw your own home or other buildings using a photograph or you may choose to create your own building using unique architectural designs. In class you will create both an exterior plan and an interior plan of one room in your building. These architectural plans will then be colored to create a beautiful work of art.

Contact Village Home School to register and receive a catalog
www.villagehome.org
503-892-2458
 
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THE QUEEN'S GARDEN
ages 10 and up

The Queen has a set of requirments for her garden. Is she the Queen of Whales was taken from her land under the sea and
she wants her garden to transport her back to her home.
Her requirements are specific. She wants certain sculptures and certain flowers, a pathway
a private building like a gazebo. She will tell how many square feet of each item but each student gets to
decide how to design the garden. She may even come
to see what each has made. This class takes place the Spring term of Math Artistry at Village Home.

Contact Village Home School to register and receive a catalog
www.villagehome.org
503-892-2458

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Contact Village Home School to register and receive a catalog
www.villagehome.org
503-892-2458