Joyce Terrell

Study Guides: Sheep to Shawl Grade 4

In this three-day residency, students use the arts of journaling and bookmaking to learn about the United States’ westward expansion and pioneer life. Led by renowned art educator Joyce Terrell, students relive such pioneer activities as leather stamping, basket weaving, paper making, and book binding.  Various writing activities about life in pre-industrial America are incorporated into the students’ handmade journals.

This residency also can be adapted to the colonial period. Both the westward expansion and colonial period residencies will be planned with participating teachers. These are great experiences for integrating social studies, literature, math, and art.

Grade: 5
Cost:  $575 for three-day residency for one entire grade
Optimum # of students: 25 at a time
Maximum # of students: 40 at a time
 

Grade: 4
Cost: $1000 for five-day residency for one entire grade
Optimum # of students: 25 at a time
Maximum # of students: 40 at a time
 

Hometown: Golden, Texas

Grant money may be available for Tyler ISD schools to reduce the program’s expense. Please call the YA office as soon as interested for your school’s expense allocation.

Sheep to Shawl

Throughout history, mankind has utilized our earth’s resources to fabricate clothing, as well as household and decorative items. In this five-day residency, students learn the history of textiles and relate this study to social studies, math, and science. Renowned textile artist and teacher Joyce Terrell walks students through the process of obtaining wool from Shetland sheep, turning the fleece into yarn, dyeing the yarn, and weaving the yarn into works of art.