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Adult Education / Art Education / Education / High School / TAB (Teaching Artistic Behavior) — Comments Off on Michael Stripe of REM Prompts College Students
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Oct 14

Michael Stripe of REM Prompts College Students

In a recent SPIN article REM frontman Michael Stripe is prompting students at NYU in a new collaborative project “NEW SIGHTS, NEW NOISE”.

“Each week, Stipe and a different special guest will give the class’ 18 students a prompt, and they’ll respond with ‘100 images and gifs, both found and made, all of which will be uploaded to a private class website,’ and projected on the walls, automatic for the people (sorry). At the end of the class, the space at 80 WSE Gallery will open up to the public so they can see what they accomplished.”

For more on the project check out the whole article:
http://www.spin.com/articles/michael-stipe-art-classes-teacher-nyu

Wouldn’t this be a fabulous project for a digital photography, digital media, or graphic design class?

High School — Comments Off on MLK Jr. Group Drawing, Studio II, Lowell High School
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Nov 09

MLK Jr. Group Drawing, Studio II, Lowell High School

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Each student in my Studio II class was given a 1″x1″ black and white image to enlarge on a 4″x4″ square using colored tape.  Unaware of the image as a whole, students had to consider scale, and positive and negative space to create their individual squares.  Once each student had finished we pieced the mat board squares together to create this image of Martin Luther King Jr.

 

High School — Comments Off on Group Drawing, Summer Studios, MassArt
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Aug 09

Group Drawing, Summer Studios, MassArt

This group drawing was created using charcoal and a reference image from National Geographic during MassArt’s Summer Studios 2D/3D class.

Art Education / High School — Comments Off on Paint for Peace
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Apr 08

Paint for Peace

Students in  my Drawing II classes worked on the “Paint for Peace” project which was started by Boston-based artist Robert Charles Guillemin,  better know as Sidewalk Sam.  The project which first started on the streets of Boston is aimed to promote peace, as well as to curb youth violence in the Boston area.  My students worked together in small groups stenciling doves in front of each outside door of Lowell High School.  Each dove has a purple banner underneath it which reads “Stop Violence-Create Peace.”

This project empowered students to create peace in our community while also adding to the aesthetic appeal  of our campus.

Thank you to Sidewalk Sam, ArtStreet Inc., and the City of Lowell for enabling us to make this happen.

High School / Uncategorized — Comments Off on Shibori Backdrop, Studio II, Lowell High School
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Dec 07

Shibori Backdrop, Studio II, Lowell High School

Working with students and teachers in the disciplines of  Dance and Studio Art in the Fine Arts Academy of Lowell High School, Lowell, MA, my  Studio II students used the Japanese surface design technique of Shibori to create this backdrop for the Fall Dance Performance.

The concept behind the performance was “Color Theory.”

High School — Comments Off on Slow Shutter Dance, Lowell High School
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Oct 07

Slow Shutter Dance, Lowell High School

Students in my Studio II class worked with students in the Dance I class to create these moving images.  The Dance I students held Christmas lights while they danced and Studio II students snapped away capturing the images using a slow shutter speed.  

The images were then printed and pieced together to create a mural in an empty store front in Downtown Lowell.