Current Exhibitions: May - August 2008
Alameda County Office of Education Gallery Exhibitions
313 W. Winton Avenue, Hayward, CA 94544
Line Investigation (1st Floor Gallery)
Redwood Heights Elementary School Students - K-5th Grades
Oakland Unified School District
Studio Arts Program - Claudia Goodman-Hough, Artist-in-Residence
Inspired by “Thinking With A Line” by Cathy Weisman Topal, students explored the world of lines: the lines around us and the lines in art. Students learned to make lines themselves using corrugated cardboard as an artist tool instead of the traditional paintbrush or pencil. This unique approach created a way for the very young students, the students new to art, and the students with limited motor skills to all participate at their own level of understanding and ability. Every student became successful in learning about lines and using new artist tools.
Reclaiming Color: Personal Ads and Manipulative Colors (2nd Floor Gallery)
Emery High School Students - 9th-12th Grades
Emery Unified School District
California College of the Art’s Center for Art and Public Life Community Art Program
Galina Yakovenko and Travis Weisel, Student Artists
Students feel the impact of color in their every day life through pop culture, advertising and fashion design. Studying who and what determines the meaning of colors informs their life experience as well as their study of visual art and literature which uses colorful (or colorless) imagery. In the “Personal Ads” project, students worked together to create a poster-sized photo of themselves.that used color to represent them individually and as a group. In the “Manipulative Colors” project, students analyzed how color can tell a story in magazine advertisements and then painted over the ad colors to deliberately change the meaning of the advertisement.
René C. Davidson Courthouse Jury Room Gallery
Room 100, 1225 Fallon Street, Oakland, CA (Entrance on 12th Street)
Myself as a Super Hero
Redwood Heights Elementary School - Ms. Fan’s 2nd Grade Class
Oakland Unified School District
Studio Arts Program - Claudia Goodman-Hough, Artist-in-Residence
This art experience was inspired by the “Myself as a Super Hero” curriculum created by Amana Harris of ArtEsteem. “Heroes” are defined as exceptional individuals or beings that inspire, protect and promote justice and the well being of the environment, people and animals. Students imagined themselves as super heroes and created life-size portraits using paint. Further, each student wrote a story about their Super Hero character which is displayed with their artwork.
Dream Time Animals and Watering Holes
Melrose Leadership Academy Middle School - 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students
Oakland Unified School District
Community Bridges Mixed Media Art Class - Julia Storrs, Artist in Residence
Curated by MOCHA (Museum of Children’s Art)
The Australian Aboriginal culture which is over 40,000 years old is one of the oldest existing today. They have kept their culture alive through storytelling, ritual and visual art that including traditional paintings featuring symbols of watering holes and paths. These “art” maps serve to emphasize the importance of knowing your water sources for survival. Student explored the concept of the watering hole which is represented in most of the artworks as a spiral symbol. Students thought of watering holes as thirst quenching spots or as representations of what sustains us in this world such as friends, family, and school.
For more information on the Arts Learning Galleries, please contact Kathy Graddy, Arts Learning Galleries Coordinator at . If you would like to apply to participate in and exhibition, please download the Guidelines and Application Packet and submit.