Fall 2023
Teaching Artist: Jezabeth Gonzalez
Classroom Teacher: Christen Sanderson
At New Foundations Charter High School, inspired both by themes of identity and personal narrative as well as experimental processes utilized by Raque Ford and Kat Richards, students created individual works and collaborative mixed-media assemblages. They explored conceptual symbolism through creating still lifes using skills and techniques such as collage, paper-weaving, camera-less photography such as cyanotype, creating and exposing digital negatives, printing on fabric, photo-transfer with Mod Podge. Students were encouraged to experiment playfully and learn through failure as well as success. Individual and collaborative final projects were exhibited in the classroom and hallways of the school.