Tile Designs with Geometric and Organic Lines, Shapes and Symbols

Tile Designs with Geometric and Organic Lines, Shapes and Symbols

I am so proud of the MDIHS students who created these beautiful tile designs. With the encouragement of Liz Keenan who is the artist/teacher in the High School, I have planned a lesson on how does culture influence artist's artwork and what can we tell about a culture from its artifact? Students looked at images from eastern artifacts that are created with stylized and elaborated symbolic designs. They learned about the ways in which those artists created their compositions with medallions and field, and border motifs. Students created designs based on the learned composition style and created their own original motifs. I am thrilled with how they showed so much care and enthusiasm during this lesson which was about 2 weeks. I should also mention that students used the same composition style, however each student created a different motifs and partterns. I always make sure students walk around and look at each others works but not to copy from each other. Can't wait to install them.

In these pictures below students are coloring their sketches and their tiles.