Sue Silverstein’s art students are having a blast, making art and having fun, and discovering the many facets of art. They always talk about how surprised they are to learn that art isn’t just an old painting hanging on a museum wall. Sue is going an extraordinary job with them. The first project is taking fabric strips and painting them on wood.
The second project is taking iconic and famous photos and re-enacting them.
This is not your parent’s art program. I am proud and excited to be supporting it. It’s a revolutionary way of teaching art, and it has fully engaged scores of children who thought art was something old people did in dying cultures. It’s a joy to think about what she has unleashed.
Above, the first fabric on wood creation – more to come. This is what creativity really is. I’m running out of enough words to praise what Sue Silverstein is doing.
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Below. This is one of the most famous photos of Albert Einstein. The art kids took a whack at re-creating it. What an excellent opportunity to be creative.
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This famous photo below was taken the day World War II ended; this was from the celebration in Times Square. The photo glass had a great time watching this re-enactment.
I never thought of art class as being fun. I’m sure having watching what they are doing. Great work, Sue.
What a cool project! and loving the painted wood art and vintage clothes photos. Wish I’d had a “Sue Silverstein”. My art teacher in 8th grade is the only one who ever gave me detention: being one of the few actually working on the assigned task, I made the mistake of going to pick up and dispose of the unacceptable sketch paper I’d tossed at the distant trash can and missed, thereby breaking his room-exiting edict “don’t anyone get out of their seat” – a statement which someone exuding authority shouldn’t even have to issue. Even the rowdy, sitting on top of their desk kids, laughed at the absurdity of it.