Art

Using the forms of drawing, writing, acting, vignettes, and painting, students created artwork reflecting their deepened understanding of and relationship to their community, identity, and ways of uplifting. During our field trip to Art Yard, artist Elsa Mora shared her story of becoming an artist and encouraged the students to trust themselves and their creative instinct. She then led them through the artistic process of creating representative and expressive symmetrical paintings. In our final week, the students participated in the collaborative creation of a mural project which will be installed in the French Street Corridor. The mural design features this year’s institute theme, which the children explored throughout the summer, inspired by the words Mary Church Terrell.

Advocacy

The advocacy theme this summer was “Lift as We Climb”. Our teaching artists led conversations and activities focused on the students’ relationships to their community, identity, and what it means to lift. The students learned about the life and legacy of our theme's author and inspiration, Mary Church Terrell. The more the students learned about how Terrell enacted change and lifted those around her, the more they realized ways they could also be uplifting in their own lives and communities. In the final week, the students learned about socially engaged art and other mural art around New Brunswick.

Community

Over the course of the three weeks spent in Summer Institute 2024, the students were asked to consider the following: what makes them a unique individual, how they are different from others in their community, what similarities they share with others in their community, and finally what collective impact they are capable of when they act with and for their community. The work they created reflects the students' commitment to lifting their communities with them as they climb to higher places in life. The “Lift as We Climb” Mural and their foamcore stair sculptures will serve as permanent inspiration to the students and greater New Brunswick community.

Friday August 9 1:30pm

viernes 9 de agosto 1:30pm

Friday August 16 1:30pm

viernes 16 de agosto 1:30pm

Friday August 23 1:30pm

viernes 25 de agosto 1:30pm

In person at coLAB Arts Studio, OR on Youtube

En persona en la Studio de coLAB Arts OR el enlace de youtube