Nacho Libro

We created this as part of our "decorate the door" contest.  Apparently, Ms. Farley's psychedelic door was better . . . which might be true.  Hers was certainly colorful and involved all students.  

Still, who fights against literary inconsistencies with the power of onamonapea? Nacho Libro.  As in, "Hey man, that's my book.  No, it's Nacho Libro."  The idea is that knowledge isn't power, it's superpower! He's climbing the plot mountain in this particular scene.  

Actually, this became our inspiration for a short film we will be doing about three language arts superheroes. 

Holocaust Images

The following are all pictures from our Art Collective, a project where all students collaborate on one major work of art.  This particular art will work as the side canvas on both sides of the audience during our Holocaust play.  Originally, we wanted the cast to stand in front of it with candles, but now it looks like we'll have to use flashlights.  The idea was to capture the haunting nature of the Holocaust in the form of blended black and white images.  Each image is finger painted.  There was something earthy and personal in using our hands to create the art. 

Decoupage

Decoupage is a French word meaning . . . okay, well, we really don't know what it means. In our case, it means gluing on a bunch of tissue papers to a canvas and then adding some paint to it. We did six canvases - one for each of the IMPACT values.

Paper Border

This project is still a work in progress. It's not really a mural, so much as a three-dimensional art project. On the front side (here) we still need to add detail work to the statue of liberty and to the scenes on the left and right. The statue of liberty represents immigration and the scene on the left is Ellis Island. The scene on the right is the dessert and represents immigration now. On the back, we have created a mock border and we'll have one hand print to represent each person who has died crossing the border in the last year.

We chose to create the border entirely out of paper (with starch to create paper machet and with a little duct tape to make it work.) We chose this, becuase it is often the legal barrier (the papers) that creates the biggest barrier for immigrants. By far this is the most controversial of all the visual arts projects we have created. It's still a work in progress and we're still trying to figure out how to improve the structural aspects of it.