Hayground Art Studio Notes

This year Hayground students will embark on a creative and cultural journey through the art of mask making. Inspired by traditional and contemporary masks from around the World, students will explore how masks are used in different cultures for ritual, storytelling, celebration and identity.

Throughout the project we will study a wide range of masks, such as African ceremonial masks, Japanese Noh masks, Indigenous South and North American masks, Venetian carnival masks and contemporary artists' masks throughout the World.

In the art studio students will experiment with a wide variety of materials, including clay, plaster, cardboard, wire and mixed media. Students will consider form, function and decoration as they draw, paint, sculpt and assemble their own unique masks of characters and creatures both real and imagined.