Why Art Matters Week 2010

This year for WAM week we had a beautiful gallery with the addition of sculpture throughout! Some of the students even helped me with the installation. My favorite thing to hang was definitely the water bottle flowers. Enjoy!

I happened to be teaching at two schools this year which really limited my schedule at this school. I asked the homeroom teachers if they would like to celebrate art with their students by honoring an artist on the classroom door. Some examples of this WAM activity are show below.

WAM

In the Spring of 2009 I felt that we needed to celebrate the arts at my school where energy was so heavily focused on testing. We called that celebration Why Art Matters or WAM (week). I designed this week to include a student juried gallery of student work. We even had some school staff artwork! I offered classes to the staff a few times and it was a great release for all involved.

The WAM week included a visiting artist day with a chef, Slang, a comic book artist, a poet and composer, and a couple of my friends from the web graphics industry.