I enjoy teaching classes on making mobiles and other kinetic sculptures. In my classes students work with different types of wire and geometrical shapes of wood, plastic, metal sheets, etc. to create their own mobiles.  We explore ways to balance, assemble, and hang mobiles.

Recent & Ongoing workshops and classes are offered at:

Brookline Arts Center, Brookline MA

Sharon Arts Center, Peterborough NH

Fuller Craft Museum

Instructions for making mobiles:

Ball mobile

2- and 3-d Geometrical Shapes

Making hooks

Making loops

Making loops2

Sources and materials:

Tools for the mobile making class

Gauge to Inches to Millimeters Conversion Table

Wire woring technics

Metric Conversions

Stores

Other links:

Balancing Figures

Mobiles and wire jewelry

Mobiles made by students in classes

Mobile Artists

Books

Interesting on-line resources for making mobiles:

Virtual mobile making interactive-1

Virtual mobile making interactive-2

Virtual mobile making interactive-3

EXTRA resources: 1

EXPLORATORY stage of teaching

Figures and polygons

© 2009 Vladimir Barsukov. All rights reserved. Artwork cannot be used without permission.