Get your stencil on!

MPX10 students are hard at work preparing for the upcoming exhibition "Civil War Silhouettes." They started with research of an invention during the civil war with their partner and wrote an argumentative paper about how this invention affected the war and continued to affect the world today. 

Next, after the field trip to the art museum, they created drafts of how they could express their thesis  through art. Then they teamed up with a visit from the advanced drawing class to get feedback on their drafts and refined them.

Once their design was approved it was time to start going big with their silhouettes in the style of Kara Walker, a modern artist we studied. 

Communication through art

This week in MPX10 our class visited the Spalding House museum on Tantalus mountain to see their exhibit "HI Society" in which local artists express the different elements (financial, cultural, spiritual) of living in the islands. Students received personalized tourists from docents in which they peppered the docents with questions and then did a hands-onart activity. The knowledge gleaned from this field trip will help inform their artistic decisions on their Civil War art project.