Painting and installation underway at Edison HS

At Edison, we're lucky to have our own outdoor studio, and we have set to work using found wood boards and old tabletops as painting surfaces. We are planning an installation for the final BxB exhibition that links the imagery in five large panels. Street to Universe to Inner Life - it's all underway. Stay tuned.

Documentary Photography @ L.H.C.C.

We met yesterday to review the work of relevant photographers from XIX century to contemporary, and the students were immediately drawn to the work of Lorna Simpson. They reacted to her profound images of self discovery.

This class meets every Thursday at Little Haiti Cultural Center, from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM.
All are welcome.

We will be documenting spaces, light, and much more around the Little Haiti Cultural Center in the following weeks.

The Making of a Collective Painting at Edison High School.

Graphic Novel in Production at Mater Academy

Working with the theme of neighborhood landmarks, mapping, the group is composing pages from a collaborative graphic novel using hand-drawn typography, collage from magazines and maps and drawing both abstract and representational. 

Girl Power: Bombing with Yarn and a Little Bit of Bling

 

What we ended up doing was not quite as orderly and clean as the work we looked at for inspiration.  Most of us don't really know how to knit, and we didn't have a lot of time, so we kind of just went crazy and literally "bombed" the whole rock garden at Girl Power with yarn.  We also used strings of Mardi Gras beads and Macramé cord.  In the end, we totally transformed the space and everybody at Girl Power is loving it: teachers, parents & students.  Looks like we've successfully created a Landmark at Girl Power!

 

 

 

 

Yarn Bombing: The Inspiration

We were inspired by looking at these examples of Yarn Bombing in different cities.  We had a lot of yarn on hand, so we decided to think about creating something like this.

 

 

Painting totems "en plein air"

It looked like something out of early 20th century Paris, students settling in under the trees at Mater Academy East in Little Havana to paint geometric signs and symbols on cardboard - our totems that will adorn trees and lampposts in the neighborhood. Ephemeral landmarks, filled with color.

Edison graphic novel lab

Hard at work - using both high and low technology. The computer is just another box of colored pencils...

Graphic Novels underway

Junior, at Edison, used the computer's PhotoBooth like a camera, to snap shots that he composed into a story of tech gadgets speaking to one another. Page layout, writing, photo editing, inventing a story - a lot goes into creating these works. Comic Life 2 is a fantastic little software!

INSPIRED BY THE BUILDINGS AROUND

We are creating a very large painting
 outside the school in the parking lot.

Each student brings a color, a line, an idea.

There is a lot of actual physical action to create a work this way.
Will keep posting the evolution of this painting.