Student and Educator Art Exhibition

THE DEADLINE TO SUBMIT ARTWORK HAS PASSED
We look forward to seeing you at the opening!

Hillwood Art Museum, located on the C.W. Post campus, has invited Empire State Partnership grantees to submit student artwork and process portfolios for their summer exhibition, “Creative Minds of the 21st Century.”  Artwork will be professionally installed and publicly displayed from July 13-17.  Summer Seminar participants will enjoy our own private opening and reception on Sunday, July 13.  Thereafter, the museum will be open to visitors Monday through Friday, 9:30am – 4:30pm.

CONCEPT

This year’s ESP Summer Seminar Art Exhibition “Creative Minds of the 21st Century”, will represent the work of students, educators, and administrators of the 21st Century.

The student of the 21st century is…flexible, imaginative, curious, adventurous, spontaneous, interdependent, passionate, persistent, inquisitive, funny, confident, thinks about thinking, hungry to learn, a generalist, a mash-up artist and an improviser, a visionary, a lateral thinker, a lifelong learner…(Sources)

In the 21st Century, classroom roles have been re-mixed: students are teaching students; artists, scientists and specialists are key educational partners; learning units are thematic and project-based. In place of the three “R’s”, we now have Literacy, Numeracy and Creativity, and classrooms have become globalized.

In light of these developments, we are inviting ESP partnerships to submit student artwork and supporting documentation as an integrated package, representing a thematic unit of study that students, artists and educators have explored during the past year.

For Student Artwork: This package can include, but need not be limited to: documentation of your unit, preliminary designs & sketches, reflective writing, photo or video documentation, and the final art works.  You may choose to submit work from across whole classrooms, or grades, (even schools, if relevant), and the submissions should represent several stages of the project – anywhere from genesis to completion.  Additionally, your work might also focus on one creative thread of your classroom work, such as student’s expressing wonder, teachers pushing new boundaries, or a story of unintended outcomes, to name but a few options.

For Educator Artwork: We would like you to submit work that in some way – media, influences, themes – is connected to your work with your ESP partnership this year. In addition to one representative work, you are encouraged to include drafts, sketches, notes and resources used to inform or create your work. In addition, we would like you to include a short narrative describing the connections between your personal work and your ESP work. The narrative need not be linear or expository in nature, and can even include visual materials. Including your own Inquiry Questions or Big Ideas is also welcome!