ML Students Build Tiny Parks to Display Along PATH400

Middle Learning art teacher Erin Ray’s sixth grade visual art students have constructed Tiny Parks as a culminating 3-D sculpture project at the end of first quarter. Working in groups, students designed their parks on paper, decided on the materials needed, and fabricated their final projects. 

Similar to Karen Singer’s Tiny Doors installations throughout Atlanta, the Tiny Parks are on a 1:12 scale (one inch equals one foot). The students planned their Tiny Parks on a 14 x 18 board and incorporated recycled or repurposed objects. The students have imagined a cat park (as opposed to a dog park), an amusement park, a lake surrounded by mountains, a mountain with a waterfall, and a pond in a park. 

As part of the Big PATH, Tiny Parks event, students’ Tiny Parks will be displayed along PATH400 from Friday, October 16, through Sunday, October 18. You can access PATH400 off of Wieuca near Old Ivy Road.