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Steve Shreefter’s 8th grade Humanities class from The School for the Physical City worked with teaching artist Martine Kaczynski to create amorphous shaped tiles referencing the forms and colors that Jorge Pardo employed in his installation in Dia’s ground floor exhibition space and bookshop.
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Naimah Hassan’s 8th grade Performance Art class from The Clinton School worked with teaching artist Stephen Vitiello, to create improvisational performance works in which they role played in a radio station setting, taking on the persona of pop culture icons and composing their own sound effects like those used in early radio.
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Christopher Walsh's 8th grade Humanities class, from The Manhattan Academy of Technology, worked with teaching artist Yael Kanarek to insert political satire cartoons about immigration within existing websites using web design technology HTML and Flash. The class modeled the story structure on Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied's Zombie & Mummy project for Dia's series of online artist web projects.
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Catherine Nichols’ English class from the New York City Museum School & Karen Ogden (of Children’s Museum of Manhattan) worked with teaching artist Martine Kaczynski, to respond to Gerhard Richter’s work in the exhibition Refraction. Exploring the relationship between internal and external perception and reflection, the students created sculptural boxes. On the inside of each box, the students represented an emotive state, while the outside of the work reflects the surrounding environment.
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Amir Bakhari’s 9th grade Art Appreciation class from the High School for Environmental Studies worked with teaching artist Connie Walsh assisted by Jill Gogal. Responding to the Rosemarie Trockel exhibition Spleen, the students delved into the notion of characters and created masks that represent cultural, emotional, or imaginary forms. Each student selected an adjective to describe his or her mask and then discussed it while being video taped to emphasize his or her perspective on the artwork.
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Yensen Sierra’s 8th grade Spanish class from the Salk School for Science worked with teaching artist Julianne Swartz assisted by Meena Satnarain, to creatively respond to Gerhard Richter’s work in the exhibition Refraction, currently on view at Dia. The students constructed multilayered “windows” of their own past, layering translucent and transparent images from documents, memories, and photos on a transparent background. The students’ collaged images became tracings, drawings, and etchings, the process of which is reflected in a sound component of the students’ own texts written and spoken in English and Spanish.
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Candace Villeco’s 8th grade Humanities class from the School of the Future worked with teaching artist Anne Gaines assisted by Sheila Watts, to respond to the Jo Baer exhibition, The Minimalist Years. The students learned about color theory, pattern, and minimal art, combined with the imagery from the book they were reading Animal Farm, they created minimal paintings that join together to form two original images: a horse drawing by Leonardo Da Vinci, and a 17th-century windmill, which are symbols from their reading experience.
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Andrea Boxer's 8th grade Humanities class worked with teaching artist Martine Kaczynski to sculpt masks of animal inspired imagery worn by each student in the photos which then became the subjects for word associations. Through this multi-layered project, the class delved into the relationship between word and image which they investigated in Roni Horn's current exhibition.
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