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High-school students collaborate with artist Bryant Holsenbeck to create an outdoor jellyfish installation from sustainable materials.
Artist Nnenna Okore addresses ecological concerns through sustainably made sculptures and installations.
Multidisciplinary artist Jennifer Halli shares abstract and site-specific works that explore themes of travel, growth, and loss.
Jacob Ginga is an art educator, painter, printmaker, and street artist. His passion for art and desire to connect with others are vital components of his practice. His works, even when completely nonobjective abstractions, such as Brackish Waters (p. 51), employ diverse visual languages that invite viewers to contemplate the narratives Ginga believes are inherent in all of his work, though he rarely delivers definitive statements.
View additional artworks from this issueʼs Contemporary Art in Context feature, Jen Stark shares her practice of combining color, depth, and geometry to create works that draw upon science, nature, math, and even spirituality.
High school students begin with a project on poster design and then researched information on the intersection of environmental action and art which evolved into a mural project and then into paintings around storm drains in the community.
The Arts in Alley community event was part of a larger endeavor to establish a strong visual art program by generating student interest in exhibiting artwork.
Middle-school students collaborate to maintain a public space by creating paper bulletin board murals.
I asked students to think about the word impact and to consider what visuals come to mind when they hear this word. Students were prompted to think about a memory or scenario that motivated them to take some type of positive action. Once students had an example, they wrote about it in a design worksheet, followed by the association of a specific word that embodied what they felt.
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