Thousand Words Project connects with the 21st Century Program

Post by: kbentley on Thursday, February 7, 2013

The Thousand Words Project will be creating art with the Lewiston Middle School as part of the new 21st Century Program started by Jenn Carter. The program meets after school for 6 weeks…

21st Century students create narratives about themselves

Post by: kbentley on Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Portaits of a Community

Post by: kbentley on Monday, May 13, 2013

Students have been working on identifying who is in their community. They have been writing “who me?” poetry and looking at the permanent collection to inspire their art making. They then took photographs…

Visiting the Museum

Post by: kbentley on Tuesday, April 16, 2013

21 st Century students visited the museum this week during their Spring Break. Everybody took a turn at drawing each other with blind contour inspired by portraits hanging in the museum for the…

Rapping about landscape

Post by: kbentley on Friday, March 29, 2013

We are at the end of our 6 week art class on landscape! It has been fun! The  students composed a rap. We started out with a poetry round robin exercise, each person…

21st century students create collage

Post by: kbentley on Friday, March 15, 2013

  21st Century Students making landscape collage inspired by TWP lessons on “Your Place in Maine”

Monday March 11th

Post by: kbentley on Monday, March 11, 2013

Lewiston Middle School students are working on landscape collages as part of the TWP lesson, Your Place in Maine and a rap about landscape. The rap will consist of descriptive words used to…

Lewiston Middle School and Thousand Words Project

Post by: kbentley on Friday, March 1, 2013

This week Lewiston Middle School students used lessons from the Thousand Words Project to inspire Art Making! They first tried their hand at blind contour drawing and then a round robin drawing exercise…