3/28 Walker 9-11:30, Southwest 12:30-3:30
This week at the Walker, I helped prepare for and followed a tour and art lab for a small group of high school students from Wisconsin, focused on the concept of a time capsule, considering this concept while exploring a few exhibits from the I M U U R 2 (I am you, you are too) exhibit. As there were so few students (4!) the dialogue and interaction with each student was really emphasized. They were very curious, so as well as the few exhibits we focused on according to the tour, the students got to have a dialogue about pieces that really drew them in. In the art lab, we made our own time capsules, where each student, and their teacher, got to think about themselves and their goals and interests. The combination of interactive tour and a lab that allowed students to consider how what they can do fits in with the concepts they explored left the students in a great mood.
At Southwest, the IB/AP students were working on a few last pieces to turn in before their break, and the Beginning Painting students were proving their understanding of value with color by filling in paint-by-numbers-ified (no numbers, I mean unlabeled blobs of implied value) portraits of themselves. The painting students were otherwise getting the rest of their previous assignments done, as their workbooks were due at the upcoming break. IB/AP Students mostly worked on their concentration pieces, which are 6 pieces that focus on a specific subject/technicque, so a collage student might work to think about in what ways they can apply collage. I spoke to the collage student because I was really excited about what ways he could apply his collage, especially after working with stickers in the art lab in the morning. The AP students were working on art essays for AP, so instead of asking about their work, I asked them about their thoughts, where they were gonna go, etc regarding their essays. Sometimes processing out loud is helpful to written work for me, so if a student seemed receptive, I asked them to talk about their thoughts on the works they chose for their essay. I'm excited to begin my assignment with them next time we meet.