Arts in the Schools
ACHF Arts Education
School project goals: Create two murals, one directly on a wall by twenty high school students. The other mural would be created by forty-five students. The primary goals are: realizing value in public art, creating a cooperative opportunity in the community, working through challenges together toward a common, artistic goal and measuring individual student contributions for future reference. Some students will need to let go of their perfectionism, as we review how all students’ art styles will be included in the mural projects. The results will become beautiful additions to the community spaces and underutilized school hallway spaces. The two finished murals will be measurement of the success of the residency. Student engagement will be measured by Tamara Isfeld and Amanda Beckler who are the students' art teachers. The students who participate will also fill out an evaluation form to rate the success of the project.
The finished murals were part of the evaluation, as well as talking with the students about the project and a reflection sheet for them to fill out at the end. Two finished art murals. One at the Renvilla Nursing Home in their cafe area and the other will be hung in the new gym addition at the Renville County West High School. The first mural was created by 15 selected art students from Renville County West and the collaboration mural was completed by 100 students from several area schools. Results for the reflection survey most were part of the mural project because: they love art a few said they wanted to be part of it because they worked at the nursing home. The most valuable outcome: was time, students really liked the extra time to practice and develop the new skills. Suggestions to improve: do more art residencies. Future residency ideas: more mural projects both in the nursing home or other placing in the community.
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