宾州州立大学阿宾顿分校 students and faculty were joined by supporters at the Independence Seaport Museum this summer to launch of the wooden boat they built, 名叫Squonk.
阿宾顿,爸爸. ——八 宾州州立大学阿宾顿分校 art students recently completed a yearlong project building a wooden boat with historic local design origins in collaboration with the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia. Students built the 12-foot duckboat, 名叫Squonk, out of cedar and mahogany at the museum.
Duckboats or sneakboxes were traditionally used in the Philadelphia region and along the New Jersey coast. They are low-profile, single-person rowboats designed for duck hunting in shallow marshlands. The design evolved to include a basic sailing rig to bring game to market quickly, which led to designs for faster and faster boats, and a culture of racing was quickly established.
根据H. 约翰•汤普森, associate teaching 艺术教授, duckboats were once a young person’s first sailboat.
“They learned the physics of sailing and boat maintenance with a duckboat so it’s a fitting project for 阿宾顿 students as they learn about the waterways in the region via a multitude of disciplines through the lens of the rich craft of wooden boatbuilding,他说.
宾州州立大学阿宾顿分校 faculty led a yearlong student project building a boat with historic local design origins at the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia.
The students enrolled in four three-credit courses, which were co-taught by Thompson and Bonnie Levinthal, 艺术教授, 与David Dormond合作, assistant director and shop educator in the museum’s Workshop on the Water at Penn’s Landing.
The students performed all of the tasks to complete the build, including cutting and steam bending the wooden planks, lofting (translating a blueprint into a full-scale drawing to reference throughout the build) and spiling (accurately measuring the planks they needed for the bottom of the boat).
The students documented their progress on 博客 and in detailed journals to help them unpack and reflect on the process.
Junior Sam Feather found that he learned individual things, 他说, 但也有更大的, more valuable lessons that he took away from the project.
“I’ve learned to look and observe with different perspectives, so that maybe I could see something that I otherwise would have missed,他说.
The duckboat will be on display alongside student journals, related creative works and a video documenting the process in the campus 艺术画廊 从9月. 12日至11月. 18. An opening reception is scheduled for Sept. 从下午12:20开始.m. 至下午1:10.m.
画展结束后, the boat will be donated to the museum collection to support its educational programming.
The boatbuilding courses and related programs were supported by a Teaching Innovation Grant from the University’s Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence, a Seeding Change Grant from The Penn State Center in Philadelphia, and the Penn State Humanities Institute. Support from 阿宾顿 included a Chancellor’s Grant funded by the Albert and Suzanne Lord Chancellor Endowment, 教师发展补助金, the 阿宾顿 Division of 艺术s and Humanities, 校园美术馆, and the 阿宾顿 Student Initiated Fee Fund.
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