Art Partners:
6th Grade Students, North Oakland Community Charter School
Sarah Willner, Performing Arts Teacher, North Oakland Community Charter School
Lee Tempkin, 6th Grade Teacher, North Oakland Community Charter School
Christine Marie, Director and Teaching Artist, ShadowLight Productions
Michele Delattre, Office of Resources for International and Area Studies, UC Berkeley.
Alameda County Office of Education, 2nd floor East Wing
Montgomery Mudra is an original interdisciplinary shadow theater project from North
Oakland Community Charter School (NOCCS) led by Performing Arts teacher Sarah
Wilner, 6th grade teacher Lee Tempkin and ShadowLight Productions director Christine
Marie. Looking at the ancient Hindu concept of avatars, whereby a god is manifested
in a person for the sake of correcting the balance of good and evil in the world, 6th
grade students at NOCCS have created a shadow puppet play that makes connections
between history, performance, Hindu philosophy and social justice figures throughout
time. The mesmerizing medium of shadow theater was chosen for this project because
of its inclusion of so many diverse art forms and its amazing ability to magically jump
between worlds: ‘reality’ and dream; past, present and future; one locale and another.
This exhibition features the drawings and puppets made by students for the play as well
as a DVD of the live performance on the lobby flat screen TV at ACOE.
Kijiji Grows Aquaponics: An Experiment in Interdependence
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Arts Partners:
Keba Konte, co-founder, Kijiji Grows,
Eric Maundu, co-founder, Kijiji Grows,
Ajuana Black,
B.E.A.M.S. Academy
Related ACOE Science Coordinator: Robert Curtis
Aquaponics is a revolutionary agricultural concept that offers a remarkable hands-on teaching and learning opportunity. Aquaponics combines aqua-culture, (a process of raising healthy fish in clear, clean water) and hydro-ponics (a process of growing organic produce without soil while at the same time dramatically conserving water) - in a single system. By growing vegetables and fish in combination, the soluble fish waste provides a natural fertilizer, and the organic produce continually refreshes the water. Led by founders Keba Konte and Eric Maundu, Kijiji Grows Aquaponics demonstrates multiple principles taught across the standard curriculum, integrating the study of science, math, social studies, technology, art, ecology and language arts in a project that is meaningful and awe-inspiring for youth of all ages. For this special exhibit, a living Aquaponics tank is installed in our ACOE galleries, along with accompanying drawings and diagrams made by students participants throughout the Bay Area. Don’t miss it!
Thrive ACOE Coordinator: Chris Boynton, Director, Project EAT ACOE Coordinator: Molly O’Kane RD, Program Manager, Project EAT
This exhibit features an arts-integrated project out of the Ochoa
After-school Media Club through Project EAT (Educate. Act. Thrive.)
Project EAT integrates nutrition education and physical activity into
a myriad of academic subject areas through lessons in the garden and
classroom. The goal of this work is to address the health disparities
gap by increasing the consumption of fruits and vegetables for our
students and increasing knowledge that leads to making healthy
choices. The show features vibrant large-scale photographs taken of
Project Eat talented staff and after-school students in their edible
gardens by other students.
Project INSPIRE: Parent Involvement for Student Achievement
Arts Integrated Projects Cultivating Parent Empowerment Across Cultures
Related ACOE Community Outreach Liaison: Martha Montufar
Related ACOE Coordinator: Program Manager, Project INSPIRE: Peggy Morrison
This exhibition displays the creative work conducted with parents through Project INSPIRE, which promotes building parents’ individual and collective capacity to engage in partnership with schools to support their children’s education. Based on the principals of Community Learning Theory, Project INSPIRE recognizes each person’s unique perspective, knowledge, and lived experience as a valuable asset with which to cultivate strength and positive action as a community. Many separate but connected projects are featured here on
these walls, including a paper tree mural, family tree collages, self-portraits, parent and child journals, paper mache and creativewriting, all centered around co-powering families in the process of supporting children’s education.
Studio Habits of Mind Across Disciplines at AHA!
Arts Partners: Miriam Stahl, Andrea Sanguine & Eric Norbert, Art Teachers, AHA! Ray Cagen & Shannon Erby, History Teacher, AHA! John Becker & Kate Cunnane, English Teacher, AHA! Mat Glazer & Devon Breuer, Science Teachers, AHA!
The Arts and Humanities Academy (AHA!) curriculum at Berkeley High School is designed to inspire greater levels of academic achievement by linking student interest and talent in the arts to all aspects of their educational experience. To increase student motivation and engagement at AHA!, each student participates in at least one integrated project each semester that is interdisciplinary – combining arts and academics, modeling the Studio Habits of Mind (SHOM) developed by Lois Hetland at Harvard’s Project Zero, and culminating in a public exhibition of student work.
This exhibition features two interdisciplinary projects out of AHA! (Artist and the First Amendment and Uncovering the Dirt), as well as posters created by AHA! staff that reinterpret the Studio Habits of Mind across disciplines, in English, science and history. To create these posters, teachers in these subject areas went out on the town in Berkeley with digital cameras during summer professional development workshops to document a visual representation of what SHOM might look like in their subject areas. They combined text of the re-written “Habits”, along with the photographs, can be seen in the posters featured in this exhibition. By the first day of school in the 2009 / 2010 school year these posters hung in every classroom.
Shadow Theater Integrating History, Social Studies, Social Justice, Music, and Drama at North Oakland Community Charter School
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Alameda County Alliance for Arts Learning Leadership
Art IS Education, 10 Year Anniversary Gallery Exhibitions
Spring 2010