Alexander Calder might have been a lesser known name among our club members, but what a body of work to explore!  Mobiles and wire sculptures and the circus, oh my!

Though we discussed many of the various mediums in which Calder worked, we primarily focused our hands-on time making wire sculptures, stabiles*, and collaborating on a wire circus of our own!  Check them out:

If you’re interested in learning more about Calder, I found this site particularly good as an overview of his life and work, and this site has a nice photobiography section to look through.

The circus our club members created will be on display during Gifted2Give on November 13th here in Austin!  Come see it in person, and make some holiday gifts while you’re there!

*Which was an art term I myself had never heard of!  It was used to describe a period when Calder was making stationary sculptures, as opposed to his period of making mobiles.  It was neat to learn this alongside our club members!