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Joyful Eyes: A portfolio book project for young learners is nearing completion as the Boston Public School year concludes. This project was a joint educational adventure for fourth and fifth grade students conducted by the David A. Ellis Elementary School and the museum. It will culminate with a public exhibition and reading aloud program featuring the art and writing of participating students on Sunday, June 6th.
Joyful Eyes: A portfolio project for Young learners is a multi-visit, interdisciplinary program designed to enhance student skills in viewing and analyzing art, writing about their experiences, and formatting and publishing their art and opinions in the form of unbound portfolio books. Conducted in ten sessions, the project brought together museum educators, BPS teachers, and twenty-one students who wrote about and made visual studies of their favorite art works on display at the museum. Each participant produced his or her own portfolio book. Additionally, the class as a group made three additional deluxe edition portfolio books featuring their very best writing and art. The deluxe portfolio books will go to the library of the David A. Ellis School and the office of Dr. Carol Johnson, Superintendant of Boston Public School. One will remain with the museum.Artist books owned by the museum provided models and inspiration for the students who learned a great deal about the parts of books and how they are assembled, while simultaneously improving their written and oral language skills Students also gained critical assessment skills as they learned how to evaluate their own work, and how to talk about it to others. In making their portfolio jackets and assembling the pages of text and art, they developed manipulative skills and exercised creative intelligence in myriad ways. Through this integrated learning approach, Joyful Eyes supported conceptual and intellectual growth for participants while honing their presentation skills and increasing their personal confidence.
Among the exhibitions available to the students was Haiti: Art of Marilene Phipps.This show stirred several students to think about the recent disastrous earthquake in Haiti. In response, a student created the artwork and poem below.
Death by Sierra Lopez
People have died.
Families have cried.
Darkness in the heart,
Light trying to fight
Can you see the faces these people are
Trying to hide?The project staff were Boston Public School teachers Kelly Henderson and Blake Richardson, museum volunteer Robert Thornell, with a guest appearance by noted museum educator L’Merchie Frazier.
Upcoming Program
Join us for a reception celebrating the conclusion of Joyful Eyes: A portfolio book project for young learners on June 6th at 3:00 p.m. The reception will feature the display of a deluxe portfolio book produced by the twenty-one participating students, as well as a program of readings by the fourth and fifth grade students from the David A. Ellis Elementary School.
The reception is the culmination of Joyful Eyes, a joint educational program between the museum and Ellis School in which each student produced his or her own portfolio book of writing and visual studies inspired by museum exhibits. Additionally, as a class they created the deluxe edition portfolio books featuring their very best writing and art, one of which will be on exhibition.
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