This image is a gallery wall permanent installation located in Beck Academy's Educational Support Suites. The paintings are each a composition created by a pair of students that are each meant to evoke a particular emotion. Once the paintings were completed, I arranged them like a spectrum from dark to light, grief to joy. The empty frames will be filled with poetry written from my 7th grade interdisciplinary unit where student will write an autobiographical "Who Am I?" poem. This subject matter was selected for this location because these offices are the place that students who need special assistance go to study in small groups, meet with their parents in reviewing their annual IEP's or BIP's, or a safe place to pick up materials that outside resources cannot provide. The Importance of Arts Advocacy: Advocacy is an important tool to raise awareness for one’s self, program, and beliefs. I believe that Arts Advocacy is important in schools because the Visual Arts can easily become an unknown realm with no money and no support. It is important as art educators to show and promote our profession and passion’s worth. I do feel that it is unfortunate to have to show our worth, but if anything, it can lead to more self-reflection and through that lead to a stronger program and fight for education equality. Five ways I feel that best show Arts Advocacy for an art educator:
Installations are awesome in promoting the Visual Arts in your school while also beautifying it! By my students and I creating this installation, our class created something for the school that is meaningful, permanent, and proactive in showing what we do in our classroom. Now when students, families, and staff enter the Educational Support Suites, they get a glimpse into our art world while also getting an art experience that hopefully evokes emotion and wonder.
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Morgan Anderson
4/28/2017 05:03:17 pm
Definitely teared up reading this blog post. I am always so inspired by the way that you and your art students contribute to creating a positive climate school-wide and in you community.
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AuthorCarlon Steller Grey is a local teacher-artist in the Greenville/Spartanburg community selling and showing her artwork throughout the Upstate. She has her BA in Art Education and Art History, as well as her MEd in Art Education from Converse College. Mrs. Steller Grey was honored as the 2016-17 Beck Academy's Teacher of the Year and the 2017 South Carolina Middle Level Art Educator of the Year by the South Carolina Art Educator's Association. She is a teacher with a passion for all types of art, among her favorites being painting, drawing, and artist books. Archives
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