EXHIBITION PREPARATION!
Looking forward to seeing all of you this week, especially TONIGHT: JANUARY 11th, 2017
EXHIBITION OPENING: SITE STORIES
NWSS Library & School
5:30-7:00pm
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| Looking forward to seeing you at our exhibition: we have been working hard preparing for today! |
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| Some of us have rolled our sleeves up and gotten our hands dirty to get ready for today.... |
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| We've been exploring our feelings... |
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| And solving technical issues.... |
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| But mostly we have been making our own path... and we are READY!!!!! |
9 comments:
Reflection:
This whole experience has been interesting. I wasn’t expecting to do a lot of art in an English class, not exactly what I signed up for either. It took a while to get used to doing all the art stuff on Wednesdays instead of doing regular class and when we eventually started doing art every day for a few weeks. It was weird talking to my friends in different English classes and them telling me what they’re doing and it was completely different from my class. It wasn’t my favourite thing to do because physical art, such as drawing, isn’t my thing. I got used to it though and put what I needed to into it to make it great. The projects we did in class were quite random and sometimes didn’t make sense to me on why we were doing them. But I always participated and joined in. the stencil art for example, was pretty fun and easy. All we did was cut out our own stencils and use spray chalk on the walls of the Pearson Office and library hallways. It was weird pretty much spray painting my own school and temporarily vandalizing it. I rolled along with it and it was pretty fun being able to just spray what we wanted anywhere.
The final project was quite rushed for my group. We painted several ceiling tiles for different classrooms and decorated them to correspond to the subject or teacher in that class. It was hard for us because we were on a tight schedule to paint and get them done; we probably had a total of 8 or 9 classes to completely finish 7 ceiling tiles. We had so little time that we had to continue working on the tiles until an hour before the exhibition. Overall though, I think the tiles look great and all the hard work paid off.
Sites Stories/Art Starts was a great class for someone who loves art and English, but since either of those things aren’t in my strengths or interests it just wasn’t my thing. I do recommend this to students who do like that though.
It was a fun experience overall, just not what I was expecting.
Reflection : Site Stories
January 12, 2017
At the beginning of this semester, my english class was told about an art project that we would be doing with another art class in our school. At first, I was confused as to why we were doing an art project during our english block. It didn’t really make sense and i wondered the purpose of it all. The things we were being taught in class didn’t seem to have anything to do with English. In my opinion, the beginning part of what we were doing became a bit boring and at times, pointless. But towards the halfway point, when we started doing our final project, the classes became a lot more enjoyable and I was finally able to see that what we were doing had purpose. The boring parts at the beginning were just to prepare us and to add more ideas and inspiration for our own projects. Our final project was tons of fun for my group of three. Throughout the semester, we were able to meet and work with a ton of new people around the school and our community such as the principal, the Qayqayt Chief and all sorts of staff and students. We did our whole project on our own but without the help of Mark and Julie, our project wouldn’t have been nearly the same. They provided us with so many great ideas to make our project stand out, how to make our artwork personal and to take control, they also give us ideas on how to create our artwork to make sure that during the exhibition, it would look as good as we had hoped. I’m so glad that eventually everything was able to come together and i was able to understand why my english class was doing this. This Site Stories project has left me with an open mind and a much better understanding of the relationship between art and language.
Art Reflection
Doing the site stories ate project has been a very interesting and rewarding experience. Doing this has allowed my class mates and I to express our inner artist, even those of us who never knew we had one. I really enjoyed being able to have such an effect on the school grounds, and at times confuse people…a lot. Sometimes it got a little booing just looking and hearing about art, but during the times where we actually got to do something, we had fun designing and planning our projects. We essentially got to experience the life of a true artist, even if only for a couple months, and even if we didn’t want to. I think that it would be a very good idea to make a class that works similar to this project because I sure that there would be a lot of people who would be very interested in participating in this sort of thing. Sure, some people would have no interest at all, but it would give a chance for people to not only express themselves, but to learn more about art and artist.
Here's a fun little video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Have a good day!
As an English teacher it has been extremely gratifying to observe the growth in my students as they explore some very unique and contemporary topics. Our weekly sessions with Mark Cunningham and Julie Hammond (artists) and Barbara Adler (author) allowed our class access to working professionals who further expanded our thinking. This project was about so much more than art; it was about critical thinking and judging by the written contributions of my students it's taught them to think outside the box during this semester long mini project.
This is the first art project I have ever done. I felt pretty nervous making art by my own, thinking about how people would respond, whether they would like or not. With these stuffs in my mind, I stayed in the school to help with the exhibition and gain some volunteer hours yesterday. But to see others’ art comparing to mine in the room, it filled me with desperation, making me think how bad my artwork is. Hiding my true feeling, I didn’t say much before the exhibition actually happened.
It was 5:30 when the parents, friends came to the school to see our artwork. “Fortunately, my parents can’t be here to see the worst artwork” I thought. (Please don’t judge me by not having any confidence) When the room got crowded, the situation was not bad as I thought. Most of people were willing to see my artist statement and the little seedling in the pot. However, as an artist, I should have done my job by telling them how I feel making this project, what is this project about but not standing in the library, glancing at their expression for my project every 2 seconds. In the meantime, I thought about the effort I had made, the words I had written and the reason why I was here and began to approach the crowds...
After talking to them, I found that they are all amazing people who loved my project, who said that my art is pretty unique, nice. I felt satisfied, successful, something that was hard to describe. Forgetting the awkwardness I had and being honest to myself, I realized that today was the day when the exhibition occurred, when our art is ready to be shown, so why not be happy with it? Looking around to see others’ art again, but this time, it filled me with joy and satisfaction. Overall, I learnt a lot through this exhibition: respect others’ effort, be more confident. And I hope that I can join more of this kind of activities in the future.
Reflection
When we first started to enroll into this project I have to admit that I have never been so confused in terms of an academic project. I didn’t understand what the purpose of this was. For me there was always a border in between academics and what I like to call art. Maybe it’s because art is something I thoroughly enjoy and admit as a part of my life. I feel like I have always been involved in art, whether it’s expressing myself through painting a blank canvass and calling it visual art, the clothes that disguise my body and calling it fashion, the way my home has been put together and calling it interior design, flashing a camera and calling it photography, writing my heart on a piece of paper and calling it poetry, admiring the handwriting and calling it calligraphy, appreciating beautiful language and calling it the art of speaking. All this I like to call the art of living. I think that the Artstarts program is perfect for young students such as us. It gives us all the opportunity to express ourselves through so many artistic formats. It teaches us the art of communication, self-expression, creativity and open mindedness. I sincerely believe that we must get the younger generation more involved in art, regardless if it is visual, audible, written etc.. There is so much importance in understanding others and being open minded in such a closed up modern society. We need to start teaching the art of humanity. Not being in love with something or someone, but with the act of loving all individuals. Therefore, I am very pleased that we are getting more involved in art at school. It educates us in a way that nothing else can. There is no logic in art, only self-explanation. It made me pleased to see all students being so involved in an art project, it reassures me greatly. Once you are done with academics, you arrive at a point where all of the physical elements and attributes are meaningless, which I am sure is very difficult, hence our capitalistic mindset. We have all been conditioned into thinking that we need certain things to fulfill our wants and desires to prove our happiness. And then we arrive at a point called art. And we start to care about the real issues. Our art program is the start of a project greater than anything that could be taught in class.
Reflection
Ian c
Block c english
I don’t know what happened i thought to myself on the first day of the project. It was crazy to think that we were going to do this on every wednesday. i am not an artist i thought. But i was wrong i i learned anything can be art, from the stencil bomb to the final project. Not only i found out i could be an artist but i was not as bad as i first thought and i took each day as a brand new adventure. As i think back on it now i think to myself of all the good and the bad ones to how we saw them celebrated and the art was transferred from the imagination of the person to the page or screen. If i had the opportunity to do this again i total would this gave us an opportunity to do something we normally would not do. I was very pleased to have this opportunity it gave for us to use our imagination. I have hope more things like this project was in other class but then is would lose all of it idvulalitiy. Thanks mark and Julie for the opportunity to express ourselves.
Exhibition in reflection
This exhibition was my first experience of a professionally done art setting. The feeling of having something i worked on so hard to put out is amazing. Seeing the responses from what people have said are stunning, to see that someone actually payed attention to an artwork of mine is an awesome feeling that i can’t describe. The road to creating this piece or even the ideas of what was right and wrong, good or bad, and creative or dumb. Eventually we decided on one idea and went with it. It took a while to get started because we didn’t have the equipment at first, then when we did have the equipment it started. So the filming begins and we don’t know where to start, so it was more waiting, looking, and filming random scenes from around the school. We eventually found out what we wanted to do with the project and luckily it was using the video and images we captured earlier to create a montage. Then the pain of putting it all together for the exhibition and installing it. That has to be one of the worst things i’ve ever had to do, from anxiety, the stress, and the pressure of not knowing what the turn of events would be. But i know that it will be good anyway no matter what because it’s my work and no one can say it’s not art. It’s mine no one else’s and it cannot be changed.
Nolan R. Brown
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