DADA Collective at Northwest Middle School

I love this project! Friends, kids, teachers and art!

 

A collection of six artists working with the art teachers at Northwest Middle School and sixth grade art students are creating some new artwork. Mark your calendars for DADA’s June 5 “first Friday Gallery Hop” for an exhibit of the finished pieces!

 

The DADA Collective project is a short residency, with a variety of media and art styles working with small groups of students to explore how art is created by the artist with students creating their own hands-on part.

 

First Visit

Students share an initial meeting with the artists in their classroom, viewing power point presentations from each DADA Collective Artist, asking questions and finding out more about the next two visits.

 

We are just getting started!

The second visit is with the artist and the small group- ten or less students- with a demonstration and discussion of the next visit, a field trip to the Downtown Art District.
(This may be our favorite of all the visits! Taking art they’ve learned from their teachers and bringing it outside of the classroom, introducing the idea of art as a profession, the creative economy and how it contributes in so many ways! And- that you use a lot of math and science when you create art!!!) Students arrive for a day of work in the studios on their project, a guided tour of the many murals and historic buildings in the Art District, the galleries and studios, then lunch.

 

Exhibit at the June 5 DADA First Friday Gallery Hop

The students work will be on display in the Galleries during the June Hop. DADA Collective artists are Carl Galie- environmental photographer, Mary Bailey Thomas- multi media artist, Nicole Uzzell- sculpture , Marianne DiNapoli-Mylet- muralist, Jennifer Wynn O’Kelly- painter, Kathryn Gauldin- textile artist.

 

Thanks for project support from the WS Arts Council’s Wells Fargo Arts in Education Grant!

 

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