Wordless News. If you don't subscribe and use this resource in your classroom, now's the time to start. Creator Maria Fabrizio has been away for a few months, busy with a newborn and a toddler, but she's back with an image at least once a week.
The images she creates are perfect for "notice and wonder." I noticed that the shadow was actually hands, and I wondered about the lines, but I didn't notice one key thing about the lines until I read the related article. I hadn't heard about this interactive art installation, so when I read the article, I had a huge WOW! moment. I'm saving this one to share with my students even though it will be old news in a couple of weeks. I want to open their eyes/minds to art as a response to current and historical events.
Earlier this week, at the Columbus Museum of Art, I saw this installation and had another WOW! moment:
What looked like a huge barrel balanced on a rope took on layers of deep meaning when I read the explanation outside the room:
We study the indigenous people of the Americas, including the effects of colonialism. So this image will be a great starting point for those studies, and another example of the way art can help us to think about our world.
I read about the teeter-totter, both fun and heartbreaking to see, but didn't know about "Wordless News", Mary Lee. Thanks for that, plus the other art. I imagine it touched you mightily! I remember reading once that those years ago, from St. Louis to Kansas City, there was only forest & when I travel back, along I-70, I think of that loss.
ReplyDeleteDear Mary Lee, Thank you for sharing that wonderful link to 'Wordless News' - I immediately subscribed.
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