bessmontgomeryart: December 2016

Recently, Visual Arts worked on a collaborative unit that integrated both Performing Arts and the homeroom. Working with 3 different teams throughout a single unit proved to be a very intense, but I think, pretty incredible experience for the students. (And me, of course 😉 ).

Our central idea, "Beliefs, values and ideas are represented and communicated through various forms of artistic expression", was made accessible through our different mediums. In VA, we worked with school and community values to create installations... The concept of "Installation Art" is not a super easy one for 10 year old's to grasp, but they actually did amazingly well. We studied artists like Ai Weiwei, Cornelia Parker, Kara Walker, Yayoi Kasuma among others, and then students narrowed down their choice of which type of installation art worked with their concept. Many groups chose some aspect the Environment, which they then transformed into an array of different types of installations. Check out some of our incredible students' show, where they displayed their learning and were able to talk to parents and teachers about their process and work.