What is an invention? What is a re-invention? Last fall children from local public schools in Red Hook explored these questions during our school programs focusing on the show "Reinventing Silverpoint."
Silverpoint was a labor intensive process, dating the pencil, involving using a stylus on a prepared ground. The contemporary artists shown at K.I.D.S. stretch and explore the medium in unexpected ways re-inventing its expressive qualities. During gallery visits students considered the ideas of invention and re-invention by inventing a place for a specific activity: running, playing, jumping, ice skating, swimming, reading, sleeping...And by re-inventing new ways of using ordinary materials.
Later, back in the classroom, our teaching artists worked with students to think about different ways to connect their places. As a result, the student's individual places ended up becoming a part of a larger place consisting of many smaller places. Sound familiar? One was even given a name: Brooklyn Big City:
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