2015-646-E Arts - Michael Roy Layne Arts Grant

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DocuSign Envelope ID: 124C6798-3E02-41 F0-A0B2-48070A27BF55 Believing that everyone is an artist,Layne continues is community arts approach to the making of public art by including the whole St.Thomas More School community in the Cana Project.Through interactive class projects and support of the installation by student and parent volunteers,this project will bring art-oriented programs into the(STEM)curriculum.The design for the project was based upon a year-long artist residency in which Layne introduced the students(50 6th graders) and faculty to environmental art and Iandscape architecture.Through interactive physical and social science exercises, students developed and conducted a survey that collected the ideas for the use of the courtyard from representatives from faculty,staff,students,and parents.The analysis of the results informed the development of the whole environmental sculpture program. This proposal continues this community-wide interaction with art and science by providing a venue for further classroom exercises.Further,one hundred and fifty 3'4,4th and 5th graders will create 1,500 small tiles(tesserae)in the tile-masking art classes to be attached(mosaics)to the sculpted ferro-cement seed pod forms.Members of the whole school community will be invited to watch,ask questions,and even assist the artist during both school and after school hours while he sculpts the cement forms during March and April,2016.In addition,one of the staff who is a fabric artist has offered to collaborate with Layne in the creation of the fabric enclosing leaf forms.Associated with this exercise,the artist will teach a class with 4th graders that will teach pattern making,resulting in the creation of the model for the fabric leaf. Finally,the principal has suggested that a community-side celebratory event be held to commemorate the completion of the installation of the vessel pair artworks.St.Thomas More School and parish boosts a congregation of 12,400 including 461 students and 100 faculty and staff.The demographics include 56%Anglo,37%Hispanic and 5%Other. Artist Experience Michael Roy Layne is an environmental sculptor,community artist and registered landscape architect who has created the over 75 large-scale sculptural environments for public and private clients in the US and abroad since his first installation (Deacon's Dome)at the Boston Center for the Arts in 1980. Many of his sculptures focused on creating spaces that use fabric as a medium because of its ability to be influenced by wind movements while transforming sunlight into colorful environments reflective of the fabric color.Over the last five years,Layne has created environmental sculptures that solve or depict stormwater management problems using stone, bamboo,and other natural materials(see 1120 Flow). In 2012,he combined the use of fabric as a celebratory statement for an arts festival with natural materials of stone and bamboo to create an aesthetically engineered sculpture located in Bond Park,Cary,NC(Sloneleafl-Fairyeircle)to clean runoff water from an adjacent parking lot as it runs to the lake shore. Continuing his goal of extending his understanding and use of a variety of materials along with his mission of creating spaces that both rejuvenate and inspire,the Cana Project at St.Thomas More school combines the structural materials of cement,metal,and ceramics with the more fluid medium of fabric and light to create a pair of sculptural see pod forms that not only enlivens the inner courtyard of the school but harvests rainwater for use in the working gardens and science- oriented outdoor classroom. MICHAEL ROY LAYNE• LEGACYWORKS•5I,Thomas More School Cana Project.Harvesting Vessel Part 3 Mosaic Sculplure Form•November 22,2015 Page 2