School Programs (Gallery Visits): Fall 2014

We are a little more than halfway through our Gallery Visits in the fall School Programs schedule. Thanks to the two fabulous exhibitions currently up at Kentler, and our fantastic Teaching Artists Ruth and Victoria, the workshops have been enlightening, fun and successful! Looking at concepts of mapping, tracing, and transfer, students from P.S. 15 and P.S. 146 (BNS) have learned new drawing techniques and applications for common media materials-- i.e. maps and magazines.

In the back gallery space, Ruth leads students on an exploration of map-making based on Viviane Rombaldi's "A Sense of Place." Thanks to generous donations by New York City Transit, we have an abundance of beautiful subway maps at our creative disposal! Students are urged to create their own "sense of place," either by inventing a new location, re-imagining the city of New York, or creating an abstract design from the water, land, and roadways found on the maps.

In the front space, Victoria discusses the abstract magazine-sourced works of Hedwig Brouckaert and introduces a new material: carbon transfer paper. Using a "view finder," students zoom in on portions of Hedwig's exhibition-- a 3-D sculptural collage installation and a large scale triptych drawing-- and trace snippets of the composition onto a small piece of paper backed by transfer paper. The drawing is then moved across a larger piece of paper to create a delicate repetitive motif.

In the coming weeks, Post Visits will begin, and students will revisit the two drawings they created in the gallery. We can't wait to see how these activities are combined and transformed into final projects! Stay tuned!