Alameda County Office of Education Gallery Exhibitions
313 W. Winton Avenue, Hayward, CA 94544
Self-Portraits, Ages and Stages: Artwork from the Studio Art Program at Redwood Heights Elementary School (1st & 2nd floor)
A project led by Claudia Goodman-Hough, Artist-in-Residence
Self-portraits create a forum to discuss our unique differences and similarities in a way that builds ties, understanding, and acceptance of ourselves and of each other. This exhibition features three vibrant self-portrait projects that have come out of The Studio Art Program led by Claudia Goodman-Hough at Redwood Heights Elementary School. The Studio Art Program provides weekly hands-on classes for Kindergarten through 5th grade students, integrating arts learning into the classroom curricula, fostering creativity and growth, confidence and skills, as well as problem-solving and critical thinking.
Open to the public five days a week during business hours.
From There to Here: A portfolio of student artwork created by AHA! Seniors (1st &2nd floor)
The Arts and Humanities Academy (AHA!) at Berkeley High
Miriam Klein Stahl, Teacher
Student artists (left to right): Charles Bowden, Ian Stewart, Lili Dithrich.
From There to Here features portfolio examples of drawing, painting and photography from 12th grade students in the Arts and Humanities Academy (AHA!) at Berkeley High School. In AHA! students explore the arts as a means for self-expression and as a powerful cultural tool. Young people emerge from this program scholarly in their art making and artistic in their scholarship. Students develop into members of society with the skills to write and think with their minds, create with their hands, express with their bodies, act and speak from their hearts, and inspire others to do the same. The work in this exhibition is representative of a spectrum of classroom projects that demonstrate student skill, knowledge, vision and imagination.
Learn more about AHA! and view senior portfolios at http://aha.bhs.berkeleypta.org/index.html
Photo Storytelling: Celebrating the American Family Through Art (1st floor, room 142 & 2nd floor)
Newark Memorial High School
Mark Narciso, Photography Instructor
Student artists (left to right): Alex Espinoza, Dayvon Davis, Erveine Acidera, Hillary Sanchez-Ware, Tony Greve.
For this interactive photography project, students created visual and written narratives of their families based on interviews and old photographs. Linking oral history, literacy and visual art skills, students engaged in a process of discovering family legacies through digitally restoring vintage family photographs and finding out the stories behind those images. This exhibition presents the written narratives and the re-touched images together, giving insight into the lives of student’s families and demonstrating the potential of arts integrated projects.