Artist in Residency - Rita Wildschut

About Me: Art Education & Experience

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My name is Rita Wildschut, BFA University of Lethbridge

We live on an acreage with an Art Studio and Gallery. For the last 30 years I have been making and teaching art in schools and at various locations in Saskatchewan, Manitoba , Alberta and BC.

We have a summer art camp for kids and during the year adults, home school and after school students come to our studio for all kind of art classes.

My unique environmental friendly sculpting medium I developed for the Canadian climate lets me teach the human figure in a simple, clean and fast process to any inexperienced student.

A great process of using art as therapy.

Hundreds of first timers have been published on http://gardenspirits.blogspot.com

My art has been purchased by national and international, private and corporate collectors.

It has been published and discussed in National Magazines, Newspaper articles and on CBC radio and TV stations about many projects I have done in the past.

My intentions are to teach art as therapy while making it a fun and healing event

What is art therapy?

Art therapy is a way of teaching art that focuses on his or her personal process of making art giving it personal meaning and story description rather than commodity value.

While working with the fundamentals of sculpting, painting, drawing or photography, art therapy utilizes the creative process for expressive purposes.

It gives the student the opportunity to express oneself imaginatively and emotionally which can result in a healing growth producing experience.

This approach is not intended to be analyzed by the instructor. I only direct the process to self exploration, self development and interpretation.

This form of teaching art allows for making brain connections that are not usually combined. Tapping into emotion, knowledge, thought and technique while producing a work of art that can now be viewed as an object. Which will evoke thoughts and feelings every time you view it in a different light.

PROJECT: Puppetry

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Build, create, imagine, invent a story, act it out , film and view.

Using recycled materials to create a variety of puppets. Hopefully none will be the same.

The student will create a puppet that can move and speak.
To get an understanding of how to create a story with a beginning, a middle and an end using all the characters created.

PROJECT: Think Green Recycle Making Art for the Garden & the Birds

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Environment Friendly Residency

Large plastic pop bottles are transformed into flowers for the garden and old teacups and saucers are made into birdbaths. The students will learn how to blend and make tints and shades using acrylic paint. They will learn to make observations of the structure of a flower and its detail. The students will observe and make a collection of patterns.

PROJECT: Art as Therapy, Using Multi Media Art Room Supplies

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Making use of the art supplies you have
Learn various ways to use the art room supplies available to the student.
Which papers to use for what medium and what possibilities there are. Projects differ by making art using imagination, emotion or measurements.
The student will learn how to use each of the tools properly while creating realistic, imaginary and observational art works.

PROJECT: Figure Sculpting

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A figure sculpting residency using a less messy (environmental friendly) medium than plaster.

Students learn the proportions, angles, movement & amp; body language of the human form from child to grown up.
The student will learn to express with body language the emotional state the body can portray using spine, hip and shoulder manipulation.