Digital Art Room Zoom & Lino Block Printing

July was my academic month this summer.

I like running away and being away. I could not go too far this summer as we stay safe and stay at home. I have invested in a tent to isolate outside in a mobile space. This summer could be the most involved that I have been in school during the summer time. I am usually far away in some other part of the world wandering, exploring, and building my journal.

This summer I explored my neighborhood and learned about my relationship to the Chesepeake Bay watershed with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation in their summer course: Exploring the Ecology of the Chesapeake Bay through Creating Art.

Nature Journals –

Lino Block Printing – on fabric

Thanks Boarding All Rows blog for sharing your research and experience with block printing.

https://www.boardingallrows.com/blog/best-linocut-inks-for-block-printing

https://www.boardingallrows.com/block-printing-t-shirts-with-linocuts-on-fabric

https://www.imcclains.com/catalog/ink/GamblinTextileInk.html

https://www.dickblick.com/products/speedball-fabric-paper-block-printing-ink/

Ms. Frizzle – Role Model –

Teacher Role Models – we love you. You do the impossible. You connect with the children. You witness that moment.

Recommendation –

How was Ms. Frizzle able to create the environments / how did she take her students to the field to understand concepts through experience?

Mystery? Adventures? Students were surprised. They cared about the Frizzle and connected together to help her in anyway. Even as she winked and shared a riddle with the group.

In all my years – I just realized she had a very small class of 8 students. No parent chaperones. It was Ms. Frizzle, the magic school bus and Liz.

Going to a virtual format, I want to connect with my students.

We meet in the Digital Art Room – zoom –

I want to pick this up and revisit this – what will it mean to reopen schools DURING the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020?

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/the-magic-school-bus-is-back-and-its-tackling-evolution

MWEE Writing – What is an ELM?

I am confused by the acronyms because I haven’t taken time to focus and learn exactly what they stand for.

ELM – Environmental Literacy Model

MWEE – Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience

I am working on designing a MWEE for my local school community. We can investigate our relationship to the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

Surprise! Although it feel like the Chesapeake is hours away, we are all in the southern mid-Atlantic area within at least 15 minutes of a connecting body of water.

We will be investigating the Forest Glen Creek behind Flora M. Singer Elementary School. Students learning everywhere can study the water systems in their neighborhood. Our neighborhood is near Sligo Creek and Rock Creek.

Time – 6/15/20 1:04 pm – 7/3/20 8:38 pm

The Beginning –

Always another beginning.

“Use time creatively.”

creative maladjustment – https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sound-science-sound-policy/201701/when-martin-luther-king-jr-addressed-social-scientists

Alright, let’s review anti-racist education –

I am going to share a link that has come into my sphere through the knowledge and collaboration of great art teachers.

https://sites.google.com/view/antiracistartteachers/anti-racist-starter-guide?authuser=0

I will be developing resources through the Chesapeake Bay Foundation in Maryland. I am taking their course: Exploring Ecology of the Chesapeake Bay by Creating Art.

I previewed their syllabus and found a presentation on Andy Goldworthy’s nature installation. Great! I love his work BUT who are the contemporary artists that create art about the Chesapeake Bay? Were there women or Black artists that documents life in the Eastern Shore of Maryland historically?

Below are my search results:

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2010-01-31-1001290045-story.html

https://www.chesapeakebay.net/news/blog/life_on_the_bay_through_ebony_eyes

https://www.chesapeakebay.net/news/blog/life_on_the_bay_through_ebony_eyes

https://www.wvtf.org/post/early-20th-century-african-american-portraits-tell-tale-two-worlds#stream/0

• http://cbmm.org/tags/chesapeake-bay-african-american-history/
• https://vq.vassar.edu/issues/2016/01/features/ruth-starr-rose.html#:~:text=When%20people%20talk%20about%20the,in%20the%201930s%20and%201940s.