Theory Loves Practice

We had a great night sharing projects, student work, resources, and asking questions.

PROJECTS 

Accordion Book about The Secret Life of Trees, 5th grade, Christy Loher

What do trees mean to you? What secrets do trees have?

Notebook Paper Exercise from The Process , 10th grade, Erica Gonzolas

Transforming the design (blue and red lines, holes) of notebook paper to express concepts and emotions

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RESOURCES that emerged from our discussion

The Process:A New Foundation in Art and Design, Wilde&Wilde (college exercises that can be translated to lower grades)

The Secret Lives of Fruits and Vegetables, Maciek Jasik

Fiskars Huge Circle Hole Punch 

How do Trees Collaborate? Podcast about Trees Talking to Each Another

Christine Odlund: Visualizing and recording the language of plants

Object Empathy Art Assignment Diana Shupungin Repairing the world

The Sketchbook Project A diverse and abundant on-line archive of sketchbooks

Virtual Reality Tours of Ancient Egypt

QUESTIONS
How do students show the art history content that they learned from virtual tours?

What successful projects have you done that work with Kindergartners?

How do you create a rubric with students?

FEATURED ARTIST

Francis Alÿs is a painter and performance artist who works with boundaries, politics, poetry.

Set Theory Exchanging artwork with local sign painters to repaint the image…Alÿs explains, “I commissioned various sign painters to produce enlarged copies of my smaller original images. Once they had completed several versions, I produced a new ‘model,’ compiling the most significant elements of each sign painter’s interpretation. This second ‘original’ was in turn used as a model for a new generation of copies by sign painters, and so on, ad infinitum.”

Retouch/Retoque Repainting sixty yellow, fading median strips on a road in the former American Panama Canal Zone, the territory joining the Atlantic and Pacific oceans as a gesture of repair.

The Fabiola Project Finding, purchasing, and displaying 450 reproductions in flea markets of a lost 1885 painting of 4th-century Roman Saint Fabiola by French artist Jean-Jacques Henner.

The Green Line Leaking a can of green paint by tracing a line following the portion of the “Green Line” that runs through the municipality of Jerusalem.

Thanks to all who came to Carlos Fresquez’s artist talk. It was amazing to hear about his role in the Chicano Rights Movement, punk scene, and his continuing musical, social, and visual art collaborations. He has mentored many artists and activists in our city and is an inspiring, exemplary art educator. There is still time to view his mid-career exhibition at the CVA which closes on March 24th.

Come to a performance/workshop by Kate Thomas, puppeteer, cantastorian, lover of teachers, disrupter of hegemony!

February 7 at 5:30

Kate Thomas is a PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Her doctoral research focuses on a site-specific practice for teachers living through the effects of neo-liberalism. She has worked with arts educators in Chicago for over 17 years, integrating the arts across the curriculum. She and her colleagues wrote the Every Art, Every Child curriculum that has been used in classrooms and teacher preparation programs for K-8^th grade educators. Her artwork uses puppetry, performance, and cantastoria, a form of recitation song. She worked at Redmoon Theater, leading a visual arts and performance program for middle school girls to use stilt walking, puppetry, mentorships, and leadership for empowerment. She has also taught art education courses at the University of British Columbia, Northeaster Illinois University, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

This week we moved our focus on Creative Placemaking from the greater community to school communities. We asked members of TLP to teach us about ways that they are engaging in creative placemaking in their schools. We heard 5 great stories!

A reminder that we using the following definition of Creative Placemaking:

We heard 5 great stories that highlighted materials, methods, spaces and routines employed by teachers. Those stories are presented in this slideshow.
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Thank you to our wonderful panel of visitors Libby Barbee, Lisa Gedguadas, Libby Barbee, Brian Corrigan and Thomas Evans (Detour).

Libby opened our year-long investigation of  Creative Placemaking by suggesting a grounding definition:

The discussion that followed highlighted personal definitions of Creative Placemaking and we learned about the personal motivation to engage in civic minded, place based work. (more…)

VASD

MSU Denver’s Visiting Artist Scholar Designer series brings two extraordinary socially engaged artists. These two exemplify many of the ideas illustrated in The Interventionists. A few highlights of the evening include hearing about a tiny receipt printer used to document an event and simply watching the incredibly collaborative dynamic between these artists.

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