AP Spanish: Angela Mitchell- Art, Beauty, and Aesthetics
The students from Angela Mitchell’s two Spanish AP Classes did this project in IPHOTO with the guidance and inspiration from Conway Brackett, Amy Story and Jennifer King. Amy Story from the Fine Arts Department created five step by step videos of how to research images, archive images, design, use Adobe Photoshop tools, and complete image that met the following requirements. US Director of Academic Technology, Conway Brackett, helped students through the process of their design using Adobe Photoshop. The theme of this unit was “Beauty and Aesthetics” and this project was created as a "Call to Action". The students were global reporters in North, Central, the Caribbean and South America, and they had to find a unique feature(a place, a person, a natural beauty...) in a Hispanic Country and were charged to describe the beauty of the country and the place with one word. The objectives of the project were to answer the following essential questions:
The project had two components, the collage of photos and a written article. The article allowed the students to articulate their project using the following prompts: Investigate how the media presents different views about topical issues in beauty culture?
US Director of Academic Technology: Conway Brackett Upper School Visual Arts Teacher: Amy Lee Story |
Jason Fulford
Lovett Alumni Jason Fulford will be a visiting artist at Lovett the week of November 18-21, 2016. Working alongside Karey Walter's photo II and III classes, Jason taught a weekend workshop. Jason also presented a lecture on surrealism to the Advanced Drawing and Printmaking classes. Jason Fulford is a photographer and publisher, born in Atlanta, Georgia. With his home in New York City, and his archive in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Fulford spends a third of the year on the road. His photographs have been described as open metaphors. Fulford’s interest in books is manifested in several ways. Monographs of his work include Sunbird (2000), Crushed (2003), Raising Frogs For $$$(2006), The Mushroom Collector (2010), and Hotel Oracle (2013). He is the author, with Tamara Shopsin, of the forthcoming photography book for children, This Equals That (Aperture, 2014). In 2000, Fulford and artist Leanne Shapton founded the nonprofit publishing imprint J&L Books. Fulford’s photographs have also been featured in Harper’s, New York Times Magazine, Time, Blind Spot, Aperture, and on book jackets for Don Delillo, John Updike, Bertrand Russell, Jorge Luis Borges, Terry Eagleton, Ernest Hemingway, and Richard Ford. Fulford regularly gives lectures and workshops at universities and institutions. Upper School Visual Arts Teachers: Karey Walter, Ashley Schick and Amy Story |
Heroes and Leaders Puppet Project
In first grade social studies, we are studying American heroes and leaders of the past and present. The children will each focus in on a leader and learn all about that person. They will understand their personality, their impact on our country, and their leadership qualities. Then they will create a puppet show to teach others about their leader.
Teacher: Melissa Fulton, Laurie McRae, Susan Ralls, and Sarah Raymer
Lower School Visual Arts Teacher: Joy Patty
In first grade social studies, we are studying American heroes and leaders of the past and present. The children will each focus in on a leader and learn all about that person. They will understand their personality, their impact on our country, and their leadership qualities. Then they will create a puppet show to teach others about their leader.
Teacher: Melissa Fulton, Laurie McRae, Susan Ralls, and Sarah Raymer
Lower School Visual Arts Teacher: Joy Patty
Chinese Economy Project
Betty Hu’s Chinese students gathered information on the history of the Chinese Economy. However, Mrs. Hu wanted the students to create a unique way to share their information and conclusions about their project. Amy Story helped the students design a poster that led the viewer through this history.
Teacher: Betty Hu
Upper School Visual Arts Teacher: Amy Story
Betty Hu’s Chinese students gathered information on the history of the Chinese Economy. However, Mrs. Hu wanted the students to create a unique way to share their information and conclusions about their project. Amy Story helped the students design a poster that led the viewer through this history.
Teacher: Betty Hu
Upper School Visual Arts Teacher: Amy Story
Upper School Latin IV and Latin V Roman Graffiti Project
The goal of this project was for students to design, write, and create painted political signs and graffiti and to create, as a class, a Roman "wall." The result included a faux ancient wall, that has been finished with different art materials to make the wall look cracked and like stone. The size of the project is 5’ x 12’. It hangs in the first floor of the Upper School. After studying Roman graffiti and handwriting, students in Kelly Ryan's and David Abraham's Latin 4 and 5 classes created their own graffiti and political signs in the style of the Romans. The study of ancient graffiti brings students closer to the Roman world by providing for them a window into the everyday life and concerns of common Romans. Students are able read the Romans' messages to one another--greetings, insults, political posturing, and declarations of love--all carved or painted onto the walls of antiquity. Students can see what the Romans themselves saw as they walked through their own streets and buildings. Thomas Cooper provided the instruction and materials to create styluses with which the students drew their graffiti. Amy Story helped plan, implement, and create the project. Teachers: Kelly Ryan and David Abraham Upper School Visual Arts Teacher: Amy Story MarkerSpace Teacher: Thomas Cooper |
Humans of Lovett
Inspired by Brandon Stanton’s Humans of New York, the 7th grade English team wanted to offer students the opportunity to explore their local community by interviewing and photographing someone that they may pass by every day, but have never gotten to know. Students learned about the Humans of New York movement and studied the rules of composition with art teacher Katy McDougal. Through seventh-grade’s novel studies, emphasis had been placed on the value of the individual story and the significance of diverse voices and life experiences. Throughout this project, students gained empathy by learning the stories of their peers, Lovett faculty and staff. Students photographed and interviewed their subjects and selected quotes that they found to be representative of the person or offered a meaningful perspective that connects with the universal human experience. The final step of this collaboration was to frame and display photographs and a key quote that captured that individuals interview. Teachers: 7th grade English Team (Symphonie Romaine, Ryan Randolph, Sarah Parham) Middle School Visual Art Teacher: Katy McDougal |
8th grade French: Monoprinting with the Impressionist Painters
Christina Smith wanted to engage her student a different kind of French class experience while learning about French Impressionism. This year, students learned about monoprinting and recreated an Impressionist artwork of one of the thirteen French Impressionist they learned about. Because monoprinting is essentially an impression type of printing with little ability for precision, students were evaluated on their progression of growth through a reflective writing.
Teachers: Christina Smith
Middle School Visual Art Teacher: Katy McDougal
Christina Smith wanted to engage her student a different kind of French class experience while learning about French Impressionism. This year, students learned about monoprinting and recreated an Impressionist artwork of one of the thirteen French Impressionist they learned about. Because monoprinting is essentially an impression type of printing with little ability for precision, students were evaluated on their progression of growth through a reflective writing.
Teachers: Christina Smith
Middle School Visual Art Teacher: Katy McDougal
8th grade Civics - Reading an Image
Jeff Wierzba and Katy McDougal created a day workshop to encourage students to start analyzing images for their culminating Social Issue Project. Students were led through a series of exercises to start to intentionally think about how to interpret images and challenge themselves and others to get inside a broader variety of viewpoints. Through a lens of intentional thinking versus taking imagery at face value, this workshop was loosely based on a “See, Think, Wonder” activity from Project Zero at Harvard. Each class was shown a series of images both partial and whole and asked to decide if the context in which they see images changes on how photos are cropped, staged, and/or preconceived ideas. After modeling the activity, students were assigned a group and an image to perform the same activity with their peers.
Teacher: Jeff Wierzba
Middle School Visual Art Teacher: Katy McDougal
Jeff Wierzba and Katy McDougal created a day workshop to encourage students to start analyzing images for their culminating Social Issue Project. Students were led through a series of exercises to start to intentionally think about how to interpret images and challenge themselves and others to get inside a broader variety of viewpoints. Through a lens of intentional thinking versus taking imagery at face value, this workshop was loosely based on a “See, Think, Wonder” activity from Project Zero at Harvard. Each class was shown a series of images both partial and whole and asked to decide if the context in which they see images changes on how photos are cropped, staged, and/or preconceived ideas. After modeling the activity, students were assigned a group and an image to perform the same activity with their peers.
Teacher: Jeff Wierzba
Middle School Visual Art Teacher: Katy McDougal