Archive: Arts & Entertainment

In “Putting a Face on the Future,” New Roots Charter School student artists explore the human face through the art techniques of collage and photomontage, loosely based on the work of Romare Bearden. Taking an optimistic step forward regarding who they are now, and where they will be in the future, students were asked to construct a photomontage or collage of a face that represents them in the future. This optimism of the will may be expressed through color, texture, fragmented representations, pattern, or other means.

At New Roots, art students explore ways to redeem the waste stream into expressive forms. Materials used here include donated fabric samples, magazine text and images, repurposed material such as plastic wrap and tissue paper, construction paper, photo copies, glue, pencils, markers and colored pencils. The artists are students in grades 9, 10 and 11 and hail from 19 different school districts. The works were produced in art classes with New Roots’ Artist-in-Residence Todd Ayoung in the Clinton House’s historic Mural Lounge, the school’s art space.

The show runs October 1 through 31 at the West End Greenstar Store.

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