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L.S., M.S., U.S. Art on Display at UMBC
“The show is a wonderful testament to students' creativity and thoughtful coaching of their teachers,” said Head of Upper School Art Oletha DeVane. Earlier this year, DeVane connected McDonogh teachers with UMBC fine arts staff members and exhibiting photographer Wendy Ewald to establish the collaboration.
The collaboration resulted in a stunning collection on display in the Hallway Gallery of the UMBC's Fine Arts Building and on the mezzanine level of the Commons. The exhibit will be up through January 31.
In the Lower School, art and classroom teachers used the identity theme to inspire students. Third-graders designed identity collages, in which they used shapes, colors, photographs, and objects to represent themselves. One child chose an octagon because he felt he was many-sided. Another child chose the color yellow because she felt that she was bright.
Middle schoolers, meanwhile, got their inspiration directly from photographer Ewald, who conducted a workshop for them in October. Ewald said that when she took American alphabet books to Third World countries, distinctively American associations like "C is for car" meant nothing. That prompted 28 students in art teacher Denise Wolf's classes to make their own alphabet books using themes relevant to them, McDonogh, girls, and athletics. Under Ewald's guidance, they altered photographs to illustrate or dispel common perceptions about each theme. For example, they wanted to characterize McDonogh as a school that values tradition, so they focused on images of the John McDonogh monument and school seal.
Upper schoolers interpreted the notions of whiteness in a wide variety of projects. Art I classes, for instance, created books about identity and race, while students in advanced art and photography classes responded with the most distinctive, unusual interpretations of sensitive topics. Chloe L. painted a wedding dress she bought from Goodwill to reflect the vanishing sanctity of white. Beth L. made a doll, sewing pieces of fabric together in patchwork fashion so that skin appears to be forming itself. Maria B. studied the colors of her yellow-toned skin and created a four-foot square relief of her own face.
For more information, go to the university's Web site.
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“The show is a wonderful testament to students' creativity and thoughtful coaching of their teachers,” said Head of Upper School Art Oletha DeVane. Earlier this year, DeVane connected McDonogh teachers with UMBC fine arts staff members and exhibiting photographer Wendy Ewald to establish the collaboration.
The collaboration resulted in a stunning collection on display in the Hallway Gallery of the UMBC's Fine Arts Building and on the mezzanine level of the Commons. The exhibit will be up through January 31.
In the Lower School, art and classroom teachers used the identity theme to inspire students. Third-graders designed identity collages, in which they used shapes, colors, photographs, and objects to represent themselves. One child chose an octagon because he felt he was many-sided. Another child chose the color yellow because she felt that she was bright.
Middle schoolers, meanwhile, got their inspiration directly from photographer Ewald, who conducted a workshop for them in October. Ewald said that when she took American alphabet books to Third World countries, distinctively American associations like "C is for car" meant nothing. That prompted 28 students in art teacher Denise Wolf's classes to make their own alphabet books using themes relevant to them, McDonogh, girls, and athletics. Under Ewald's guidance, they altered photographs to illustrate or dispel common perceptions about each theme. For example, they wanted to characterize McDonogh as a school that values tradition, so they focused on images of the John McDonogh monument and school seal.
Upper schoolers interpreted the notions of whiteness in a wide variety of projects. Art I classes, for instance, created books about identity and race, while students in advanced art and photography classes responded with the most distinctive, unusual interpretations of sensitive topics. Chloe L. painted a wedding dress she bought from Goodwill to reflect the vanishing sanctity of white. Beth L. made a doll, sewing pieces of fabric together in patchwork fashion so that skin appears to be forming itself. Maria B. studied the colors of her yellow-toned skin and created a four-foot square relief of her own face.
For more information, go to the university's Web site.