As I write this, I'm waiting for our students to return from their weXplore, a five-day excursion that takes students beyond their host city for immersive cultural experiences. For the past two months, we as a school have called Maun, Botswana, our home. It's a small town on the edge of the Okavango Delta and, for many travelers, a doorway into Africa. But Maun is only one perspective, and it...
Read MoreCREATIVE ARTS TEACHER Cécile B Evans explains Art By Telephone, a recent activity students participated in with artists and audience members across the globe. In one afternoon, TGSers became creators of global art along with Timur Si-Qin, Lindsay Lawson, and Lucky PDF.
The event was live streamed in Australia at an arts festival with onlookers taking part in the constructive dialogue. Within minutes of completion of an art piece, a screenshot of the students’ work infiltrated the internet. Artists immediately engaged with the students on Twitter and dispersed these images far and wide.
DIS Magazine published the full 45-minute video chat session with the students and the artists.
Art By Telephone is a project initiated by Rebecca Lamarche Vadel and Cécile B. Evans. ABT is a mobile format in which the process of art making is broken down to it core elements, from idea to production, via video chat. For more on Art By Telephone, visit: http://artbytelephone.blogspot.de/