tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11655032173973985232024-02-18T22:49:56.978-08:00CREATING LANGUAGE THROUGH ARTSThe intersection of art, dance and communication!Liza Sylvestrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13343586858532453561noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165503217397398523.post-28050171540895812392015-03-09T11:07:00.001-07:002015-03-09T11:07:09.686-07:00HELP US RAISE MONEY!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">* Please make sure to either include your entry form with your artwork when you ship it OR include your name somewhere inside or on the package so that we can identify your artwork.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">We (Angela, Canae and Liza) received a Minnesota State Arts Board Grant which is allowing us to teach art classes at Four Seasons A+ Elementary in St. Paul. Four Seasons is a public Arts Magnet School with a Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing Program. Our lesson plans encourage our students to think about how art can be used as a vocabulary and as a way of communicating that transcends speech and hearing. The three of us come from different artistic backgrounds and different hearing abilities/inabilities, we believe that art can be used to bridge the gaps presented by communication barriers. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Our connection to MN Hands and Voices began while we were writing our grant. Candace Lindow-Davies and Carina Figueroa have been steadfast in their support of our project and this year they asked for our help in running their annual art contest! So here we are, it’s going to be a lot of fun!!!</span></div>
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Angela Olson recently led us through a lesson plan making simple rod puppets. Here are some photos from all of the different grades we teach.</div>
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Our third graders made some awesome puppets!!!<br />
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Canae is explaining how to staple the body of the puppet together.<br />
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Some students made puppets that were self portraits.<br />
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This fifth grader is a natural drawer. It was cool to see what he made!<br />
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A cat, a tiger and a cow.<br />
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Fifth graders!!!<br />
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This guy decided to make the body of his puppet out of paper instead of cloth.<br />
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Fourth graders!!!<br />
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Both of these guys came up with stories for the puppet characters they created!Liza Sylvestrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13343586858532453561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165503217397398523.post-64368543001451861792014-04-13T14:38:00.000-07:002014-04-13T16:04:24.043-07:00EMOTIONS & ART<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Liza Sylvestre recently led a lesson plan about emotions and art. Each class started with a discussion about emotions - what are the different emotions we feel? How do these emotions show up in artwork? </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">Then the students had plenty of time to color in their body shapes. Some students included images of things that made them happy, or they used colors that made them feel a certain emotion.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">It was pretty cool to see what these young people came up with!</span></span></div>
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These young ladies drew things inside their traced bodies that they like or that make them happy.<br />
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We love how expressive this face is! <br />
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We asked this guy why he decided to put a blue circle in the middle of his body. His reply? </div>
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"We talked about how the color blue could represent the feeling 'calm'. And so I made a blue heart because my heart is calm."</div>
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Student: "I am trying to think of, if I could reach into my body and pull out my emotions, what would I see?"</div>
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Interviewer: "And what do you think?"</div>
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Student: "Um, a lot of bright colors. A lot of different shapes...are coming up."</div>
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Interviewer: "Pretty cool!"</div>
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Canae, who has worked locally with the <a href="http://www.ethnicdancetheatre.com/">Ethnic Dance Theater</a>, the <a href="http://www.tapestryfolkdance.org/">Tapestry Folkdance Center</a>, <a href="http://www.southerntheater.org/">The Southern Theater</a>, and <a href="http://www.mixedblood.com/">Mixed Blood Theater</a>, led our first dance/movement class in February. </div>
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We asked students to work together to make different geometric shapes with their bodies. How can you make a square using your bodies? A triangle? A star? Then we talked about the different levels used in dance - the low/ground level, the mid level and the air/sky level. Students were asked to use their bodies to show and understand the differences between these levels. What lives on the ground? How does it move? What kinds of things exist on the mid level? How do they move? What lives in the sky? How can you use your body to show the wind blowing? </div>
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<br />Liza Sylvestrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13343586858532453561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165503217397398523.post-39150413719342238952014-03-25T23:02:00.000-07:002014-03-26T02:06:13.970-07:00A LITTLE BIT ABOUT US AND WHAT WE ARE DOING<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Angela Olson seeks to build bridges in her work. Through community collaborations, cross-generational </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">story sharing, and free public art events, she strives to bring together seemingly opposing concepts, art </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">forms, and audiences. Her main focus is in fostering connections between old and new technologies, crude </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">aesthetics and refined ideas, and audiences of different generations and cultural/socioeconomic </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">backgrounds.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Liza Sylvestre is a professional artist. Her artwork is founded in the belief that beauty grows out of a place that cannot be planned or </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">completely controlled. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">She works slowly, and in a very real way "listens" to her artwork as it develops.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Sylvestre grew up with a progressive hearing loss and feels that it has given her a distinct lens through which she perceives the world. She has been living with a cochlear implant since 2003. She is interested in bringing awareness to the different ways in which we use our senses in order to communicate with each other. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">As a deaf person, Canae Weiss feels that expressing herself creatively through movement and dance is </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">natural. She explores dance and theatrical physical expressions/ gestures as a way to concretely portray the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">dreams, imagination, and visions at the root of our hearts that connect us as humans across many different </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">cultures, behaviors, perspectives, and diverse experiences. There are thousands of words that exist to </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">express these ideas but movement is most exquisite! Weiss feels that children have a lot to say and that </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">movements and gestures can lead children into strong realizations inside themselves to express what they </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">might not be able to explain in words. Weiss’ belief is that dance and theatre are a tool for children to gain </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">awareness about what is happening in their bodies, it is also a language that they can use to process events </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">in their lives.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">As artists and teachers we are interested in building bridges through art learning and practice. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Collectively, we believe in art as a means of communicating to a wide variety of audiences with varied language, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">experience, backgrounds and cultures. We view art as the hinge which connects these different experiences </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">together.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">We teach art classes at Four Seasons Elementary in St. Paul, MN. Four Seasons is a public Arts Magnet School with a Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing program. Our lesson plans encourage our students to think about how art can be used as</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> a vocabulary and as a way of communicating that transcends speech </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and hearing.</span></div>
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