created by Ashtyn174 in Kindergarten at
Ayersville Elementary School and Ayersville Middle School
from school project "Adinkra With Sole"
art id #17730768
Artist Statement (what Ashtyn174 said about their artwork)
I liked that we got to put our own stamps on it.
About this School Project (Adinkra With Sole)
Students learned about the adinkra (good-bye) cloth made by the Akan people of Ghana and the Ivory Coast of West Africa. Instead of the carved calabash stamps used by these people, we heated pen-score foam and stepped on these to reproduce the textures on the soles of their shoes for our stamps. They learned how to tap their stamps on the ink pads to better ink the surface of the stamp, then stamped a row of their shoe texture. To complete their adinkra, they traded stamps with each other and stamped other classmates' shoe textures on their cloth.
