Category: Visual Arts
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Art Comes to You
In my first years as an English teacher, bringing art into my classroom took a lot more effort than it does today. Of course there were pictures in textbooks (some of them even in color) as well as poster and postcard reproductions, but to get a really good look, I wanted big pictures, glowing with…
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Group Projects
Uniting 40 people with one project is not an easy task. It requires compromise, collaboration and patience. I’m happy to report our class successfully created a group project that added some life to our dull hallways and paid homage to the film, Anthropocene. Our goal was to create something beautiful with recycled materials. We quickly…
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Strengthening Memory Through Arts-Integrated Experiences
What do we remember? The blur of objects, a yellow bird, a clown, polka dots, the dead owl, a monkey, the plaid shirt, stripes, colors, a wall of inflamed sayings, marbles on the floor, thousands of nails mapping fragile bodies of water. We remembered how we felt as we looked, up high, down low, somewhere…
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The Kuleshov Effect and Soviet Montage
Posted by Eric Meiring During our meeting this week, the conversation shifted to the way art can affect the perception of the viewer, and, in turn, how these perceptions can be manipulated by the artist. An extremely important example of this manipulation is the Kuleshov Effect. The Kuleshov Effect was developed by Soviet film…
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Making Something Out of Nothing
As we round out the year in Pages with our third and final experience, we will see Noah Purifoy’s work in the exhibition Junk Dada. Working with Bryan Moss, visual arts artist-in-residence, we decided to first explore this work with as many of the five senses as we could engage. Armed with a box of…
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Potential Project
1.) Т Collage image/images that speak to you in your journal provided to you for the PAGES program 2.) Overlay previous page, make sure it is blank 😉 Create a page of writing that reflects your collage or whatever you are inspired by. 3.) Cut each line into strips, but be sure not cut…
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Quick and Dirty Guide: Pablo Picasso
Quick and Dirty Guide for Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso – born on October 25th, 1881 in Malaga, Spain Originally named Pablo Ruiz, later took on his mother’s name,Picasso Child prodigy, Picasso learned everything about painting and drawing from his Father José Ruiz, who was a painting teacher (Art world refers to his father as…
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Space, Shapes and the Silences Between
“When he heard music, he no longer listened to the notes, but the silences between.Т When he read a book, he gave himself over to the commas and semicolons, to the space after the period before the capital letter of the next sentence.Т He discovered the places in the room whereТ silenceТ gathered; the folds of curtain…
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Blogging Challenge, Identity and Picassoheads
Task One: This week’s Edublog’s blogging challenge asks us to reflect on our online identity compared to our “real life” identity. Т On my blog site and on Twitter, I tend to keep it professional. Т I’m interested in education and technology and I think writing, reflecting and reading about education helps make me a better teacher.…
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Our Messy, Creative Selves: Art, Transformation and Mindful Creativity
This week I worked with students in theТ Mosaic programТ withТ Kim LeddyТ andТ Steve Shapiro. Т We wanted to provide students with an introduction to mindfulness and mindful creativity while also introducing the themes of transformation, identity and change. Before I came into the classroom, Kim and Steve had used a variation onТ this mindfulness lessonТ (originally for teachers and staff) to…
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Learning Space: Summer, One Long Learning Adventure
This is a picture of a senior looking through the “Summer of Mo” (Mosaic) presentations. Every summer, we ask our students to treat the summer like one long learning adventure and when they return, each student creates some sort of visual presentation of that summer to share. Students walk around participating in a sort of…
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Learning Space: We Looked, Then Looked Some More
Students explored this chilly morning, finding an object that appealed to them, looking at it for an extended period, and using words and pictures to describe their objects. Practicing focused looking and focused writing took energy they are unused to using, but by the end of 15 minutes, students had something to bring back to…
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Writing and Weaving
In the pre-visits we explored fiber alongside words to think through literature,specifically identity, oppression, community, the writing process, media influence, feminism, the line between fine art and craft… Students are reading The House on Mango Street, The Yellow Wallpaper, poetry, articles by Yoani Sanchez (Forbidden Voices)… Students are writing short essays, research essays on cultural…
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On Fiber, Text, and Commentary
Beryl Korot, “Text and Commentary”, 1977Т ТТFiber: Sculpture 1960-ТТpresentТТ is the first exhibition in 40 years to examine the development of abstraction and dimensionality in fiber art from the mid-twentieth century through to the present. Adapting age-old techniques and traditional materials, artists working in fiber manipulate gravity, light, color, mass, and transparency to demonstrate the…