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Gallery on Wheels: Taube encourages student creativity

Under the instruction of a member of the Taube Museum of Art Gallery on Wheels, Olivia Lormejuste, left, colored her stabile project base with a red permanent marker while McKenna Goodman, right, sang and focused on getting her yellow wire to stay upright on Monday at Longfellow Elementary School.

Longfellow Elementary School in Minot had the Taube Museum of Art Gallery on Wheels in their classrooms on Monday, creating two different types of projects.

Third-grade classes of Rachel Peterson and Lisa Kutler, and fourth-grade class of Lacey Schweitzer were working on different projects, based on who the instructor was from the Taube.

Third-grade classes were putting together mobile sculptures, using a cube foam base, different colored wire and shapes that the students made out of paper.

Kutler’s class was making a stabile sculpture using the same materials.

The main difference between the two projects is that one is static, or still, and the other is dynamic, or moving.

From left, Ellie Haisley, Layton Naslund, Piper Hern, Juliette Levine, Brayton Wilke, Miguel Torres and Loghan Fowler, back, gathered for a photo after decorating their bases during their Taube Museum of Art Gallery on Wheels activity of making mobiles at Longfellow Elementary School on Monday.

The mobile sculpture got its name from the components on the piece that are movable. All components on a stabile sculpture are fixed in place and should not move.

Starting in the morning, three instructors from the Taube Museum collaborated with three classes during one hour, then moved on to another three classes after that. On Tuesday, there were only two instructors available for classes, so they did two classes in an hour, and continued the pattern until everyone had their chance to make a sculpture.

Longfellow Elementary School hosted the Taube Museum of Art Gallery on Wheels on Monday, Ma’ina Rios and Sophia Rau, front, and Amirah Osby and Ryker Henderson, back, display the bases they colored with paint sticks.

Stella Franca, a fourth-grader at Longfellow Elementary School, was among the first in her class to finish her mobile project and draw a picture of the final product for an activity her class did with the Taube Museum of Art Gallery on Wheels on Monday.

Shane McIntee, a third-grader at Longfellow Elementary School, focused intently on putting his green wire in just the right spot on his base for his mobile during an activity with the Taube Museum of Art Gallery on Wheels on Monday.

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