This Wednesday, we spent some time with the CVA’s Collectivism Exhibit where artists use community, social justice, humor, and beauty to respond to the good, the bad, and the ugly in our world.
For instance, The Tea Project represents experiences of men in Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, including their practice of intricate, pattern carving on prison-issued styrofoam cups.
Then we continued in the studio making magic wands to help us through the school year.
Here is what we hope our wands will do:
- Stores my and everyone’s back-to-school energy to be accessed later in the year when my enthusiasm drops.
- Protects myself from the unraveling of myself…collecting myself back together again.
- Controls organized chaos
- Takes in and transforms the BS and spewing out Sass in return
- Keeps me centered and balanced with a cocoon of hidden chakras .
- Keeps my year calm and nice
- Gets me through the semester to send out softness to the world
- Continues good things to happen and keep things light and airy.
- Maintains an all-seeing eye to watch my students in the classroom, the good and the bad.
- Makes windows in my classroom (not the software, but the ones with glass and sunshine)
- Makes my 8th graders fun and innocent (which they are not!)
- Keeps me from getting attached and knowing that everything is going to be OK
- Captures time with a spinnin’ globe
See you next month, October 9th, for more magic!
September 11, 2019 Collectives and Magic