Our Booker T students took a break in the Sculpture Garden after all their hard work in the galleries! Read more about these fantastic students on Uncrated.
Posts Tagged 'Booker T. Washington High School'
Turning the Tables: Student Gallery Talks
Published April 10, 2015 Friday Photos ClosedTags: Booker T. Washington High School, gallery talk
Calligrams & Concrete Poetry
Published September 23, 2014 Art & Teaching , Creativity ClosedTags: Art, Booker T. Washington High School, calligram, Concrete Poetry
A calligram is a word or phrase in which the design of the text is arranged to create a visual image that expresses the meaning of the words. For example, the below piece on the right (by Low-Commitment Projects) integrates words that describe a flamingo (leg, long neck, pink) into a recognizable shape that mimics the bird.
Josef Albers, Homage to the Square (733), 1965
Similarly, concrete poetry, an experimental literary style that gained prominence in the 1950s, also heavily relies on the aesthetics and visual design of the words used in a piece of writing to impart overall meaning to the work. In this respect, language is image, and the physical material from which the poem or text is made is just as vital to the meaning of the work as the words that are chosen. The poem becomes an object, and the poet an artist.
During their first DMA visit of the new school year, our Booker T. Washington Learning Lab students investigated the concepts of calligrams and concrete poetry. As senior visual art students, they are understandably comfortable expressing themselves through purely visual means. But with this exercise, we wanted to challenge the students to expand their avenues of communication, and explore this hybrid visual/literary method as an alternative way to express themselves and provide insight into their personal and artistic interests.
@the1that_got_away
@g_littlejohn
@hannahshafer_
The calligrams the students created were quiet varied, taking the shapes of animals, pop culture icons, people, and even geometric and natural forms. Getting to know the students through this unique introduction helped us as educators gain insight into their artistic and personal modes of expression, and (we hope) provided them with useful self-reflection as well. We’ll be working with these students all year long as part of our Learning Lab class partnership, so stay tuned for more exciting things to come from this group of creatives!
Danielle Schulz
Teaching Specialist
Friday Photos: Instagram + Booker T.
Published March 7, 2014 Art & Teaching , Friday Photos 3 CommentsTags: Booker T. Washington High School, inspiration, instagram
The DMA is now in the third year of its Learning Lab partnership with Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, a collaboration in which DMA Education staff work with Visual Arts teachers to lead experiences and projects at the DMA and at the school. The students recently completed a project that used Instagram as a means to explore artistic inspiration.
We asked the students to choose an artist in our Modern European or Contemporary art collection and re-imagine that artist’s specific point of view in a contemporary setting. The Booker T. students did a wonderful job documenting these artistic re-imaginings by collecting images of objects, scenes, people and materials that they felt would give their particular artist inspiration.
Georges Braque, Still life with Bottles and Glass, 1912
#POVbraques (Crystal & Paige)
Naum Gabo, Constructed Head No. 2, 1923-1924
#POVgabo (Vicki)
Arshile Gorky, Untitled, 1943-1948
#POVgorky (Demorious & Grant)
Juan Gris, Guitar & Pipe, 1913
#POVgris (Lesley)
Jasper Johns, Device, 1961-1962
#POVjohns (Amber)
Wassily Kandinsky, Murnau, Burggrabenstrasse 1, 1908, 1908, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Art Association Purchase, 1963.31
#POVkandinsky (Courtney)
Wassily Kandinsky, Murnau, Burggrabenstrasse 1, 1908, 1908, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Art Association Purchase, 1963.31
#POVkandinsky (Annabella & Sadie)
Franz Marc, Fate of the Animals, 1913 (Basle, Kunstmuseum)
#POVmarc (Nick)
Jean Metzinger, The Harbor (Le Port), 1912
#POVmetzinger (Lilana & Jordan)
Piet Mondrian, Composition with Large Blue Plane, Red, Black, Yellow, and Gray, 1921
#POVmondrian (Avery & Beatle)
Robert Rauschenberg, Skyway, 1964
#POVrauschenberg (Astrid & Haley)
Gerald Murphy, Razor, 1924
#POVmurphy (Grace)
Mark Rothko, Orange, Red and Red, 1962
#POVrothko (Kayla)
Do you see something around you that could have been inspiration for Mark Rothko or Jasper Johns? Join the conversation on Instagram! Simply tag your images using #POVartists name. Make sure to post them in our comments section if you feel so inspired!
Danielle Schulz
Teaching Specialist
Learning Lab: Self-Guided Tours
Published July 2, 2013 Art & Teaching 2 CommentsTags: Booker T. Washington High School, high school students, Learning Lab, partnership, self-guided tours
To cap off a fantastic school year, visual arts students at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts enrolled in our Learning Lab created self-guides for their favorite works of art at the DMA. These eleventh-grade students began many of their Learning Lab classes with a walk down Flora Street to the Museum, where they spent time looking at works of art, asking questions about them, and responding to them through group discussions, written ideas, and their own original works of art.
For their final projects, we asked students to choose four or five works of art in our collection to include in a self-guided tour, for which they decided the title and theme. They wrote a short paragraph about each artwork to explain why they chose to include it and what stood out to them. Because self-guided tours are intended to offer visitors short and interesting factoids or interpretations of a work of art, students were encouraged to be creative with their paragraphs and incorporate prompts or provocative questions that would encourage close looking and connection-making with ideas related to the work. Here are some excerpts from their fantastic finished products!
[Maternal]
“Exploring only a few examples throughout art, this guide surfaces one relationship that every individual from every culture has experienced to some degree: a mother and her child.”
Guillermo Meza, Mother and Child, 1953
“This piece depicts a mother carrying her young child with a vibrant fleshy pink cloth, pulsing all the way though her spine, much like her love and seeming will for her child. Where do you think they are going, or rather, where are they coming from? What ties you to your mother?”
Ms.: An Introduction to Women in Art
“This self-guide illustrates the woman in her own, natural, (sometimes stereotypical) element.”
Gerhard Richter, Ema (Nude on a Staircase) (Ema [Akt auf einer Treppe]), 1992
“Ema (Nude on a Staircase) is a photograph of a paintng that was created in 1966. This image was purposely blurred to create nostalgic distance. What famous work of art by Marcel Duchamp could Ema have been inspired by?”
Texas Beauty
“When someone says “Texas,” what are the first images that pop into anyone’s head? Probably cattle, dry land, maybe some wildflower. This self-guided tour will take you “deep in the heart of Texas” and give you a true tour of this majestic land.”
Jerry Bywaters, Share Cropper, 1937
“It is hard to drive more than 150 miles in Texas without spotting a farmer doing his work. What do you think are some stereotypes farmers have? Does this farmer display any of them?”
American Landscape Paintings
“Have you ever wondered what it feels like to be so fully immersed in a painting that you actually feel like you are inside it? This self-guided tour will show you landscape paintings all by American artists. From cold icebergs to sunny beaches, the beautiful landscapes will take you on a journey all around the world.”
Alfred Thompson Bricher, Time and Tide, 1873
“Can you feel the tide pull back and forth? Can you sense the sand crunching underneath your toes, the water touching your soles, making a shiver run down your back? Close your eyes and let your senses take over. Listen to the crash of waves as they attach the rocks, feel the sun bathe your body, and soak it in.”
Works shown:
- Guillermo Meza, Mother and Child, 1953, Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard K. Weil
- Gerhard Richter, Ema (Nude on a Staircase) (Ema [Akt auf einer Treppe]), 1992, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art League Fund, Roberta Coke Camp Fund, General Acquisitions Fund, DMA/amfAR Benefit Auction Fund, and the Contemporary Art Fund: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon E. Faulconer, Mr. and Mrs. Bryant M. Hanley, Jr., Marguerite and Robert K. Hoffman, Howard E. Rachofsky, Deedie and Rusty Rose, Gayle and Paul Stoffel, and two anonymous donors
- Jerry Bywaters, Share Cropper, 1937, Dallas Museum of Art, Allied Arts Civic Prize, Eighth Annual Dallas Allied Arts Exhibition, 1937
- Alfred Thompson Bricher, Time and Tide, c. 1873, Dallas Museum of Art, Foundation for the Arts Collection, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Mayer
Andrea V. Severin
Interpretation Specialist
Friday Photos: The Dallas Arts District
Published September 10, 2010 Friday Photos 2 CommentsTags: Art in October, Arts District, ATTPAC, Booker T. Washington High School, Crow Collection of Asian Art, Nasher Sculpture Center
Last year, the AT&T Performing Arts Center opened in Downtown Dallas, and everyone celebrated the completion of the Dallas Arts District. October marks the one-year anniversary of the ATTPAC, and a month-long celebration has been planned throughout the Arts District, including performances, festivals, and more. Art in October will end on October 31st with a Closing Celebration, including free admission to the DMA. A complete calendar of events is available online.
Not only is the Arts District a great place to experience art and culture, but it’s also a wonderful place to explore architecture. Below are some photos that I took between rainstorms this week of some of my favorite sites in the Arts District. I hope you’ll bring your students down to explore the Arts District, too!
Shannon Karol
Coordinator of Museum Visits
