May 6th | Project Deadline

Congratulations! You have reached an intersection of your intellectual pursuits and your developing habits; the end of a creation phase is a unique space to reflect on how you got to where you are in this specific work and who you are in it. I hope today is both a celebration and a catalyst. While we are concluding the formal creation phase (the working-ness, the multi-messy-ness, the re-making-ness), this does not suggest that you must stop your work. It does, however, mean that the work that still needs to occur needs to occur outside of IDEAS Project Block time. This means making arrangements with staff, if materials and spaces are needed. This means early mornings. This means weekends. This means staying after school. You've come too far to not finish!!

FRIDAY, MAY 6th

Everyone:

  • Own your Exhibition of Learning date, time, place, and format.
    (Put it in your calendar. Take off of work. The schedule will not change.)
  • Write your project title and the time, date, and place of your EoL on the back of one postcard. Deliver this post card to your family, inviting them to attend. Additional post cards are available in the office for larger families. 
  • If there is someone outside of your family that you would like to invite by mailing them the post card, please address the post card and include a brief, personalized note in the white space on the back of the card. We will mail these for you; put them in Kimberly's mailbox when complete. (We encourage these invites. Please do not hesitate to ask your Advisor for help with addressing the card.)
  • Read Madison's email regarding the Volunteer Schedule, and respond as she requested. 

Groups must decide what else is needed for this day in the middle:

  • Perhaps it is a gallery walk, celebrating the work and offering small suggestions for revision. 
  • Perhaps studio time, followed up with sharing out the most transformational part of the process at the end.
  • Perhaps it is something I cannot imagine...decide together.
NEXT WEEK

Outlining and Practicing Exhibitions of Learning

Writing and Revising Artist Statements

REHEARSALS WILL BEGIN ON MAY 16th

PARADIGM GALLERY INSTALLATION WILL BE MONDAY, MAY 23rd @ 8:00AM