HMS-Champlain Guerilla Art Projects
FALL 2019
—CONFUCIUS
“Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.”
Aidan, Hayden and Reagan
We are working on a project about identity. We are going to make posters with “STOP signs” and it’s going to say something positive about who you are. This project includes the LGBTQ IA PLUS community.
Where it’ll be installed
Our Guerilla Art project will be installed in the gender neutral bathrooms of each school. We made a total of four, so two will go in each school.
3-5 Resources
Hailey, Benjamin, Devon, Eric B.,
Azriel and Eric N.
Our project focuses on spreading positive messages. We wrote messages about physical appearances and other messages that encourage strength and happiness when someone is having a difficult time. We made balloons to spread our positive messages. We’re going to put them up in hallways, bathrooms, and classrooms in HMS as well as in the Art room at Champlain.
Two of our messages that are installed at Hunt Middle School.
Maria, Hayley and Diuena
Diversity is
Beautiful
“Diversity is everywhere and you should accept it because it’s the most beautiful thing we all share in the world.” - Dieuna, Hayley, Maria
Together we created colorful and inclusive stickers to express the beauty in diversity! Our goal is to inspire expression, encourage open-heartedness, and to educate others about the value of diversity.
We hope to distribute our stickers to friends around both our communities here in Burlington.
Dieuna’s BOP: Beautiful - Christina Aguilera https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAfyFTzZDMM
“If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.” - Beyonce
Jayme, Espoir, Faraja, Kennedy and Steave
Project Focus and Installation
We gathered 110 quotes from the Champlain College community about why they love their hair. We spelt out our message with these stickies and plan to install at HMS.
3-5 Resources
Hayley, Sydney, Robert, Jason and Christoph
Project Description:
We made a “We Think Beauty Is…” poster with positive messages about what we think is beautiful about us. We put post-it notes and a pen on it so people could write what’s beautiful about them and leave it on the board. There are also post-its for writing compliments.
A Hunt student discovers the poster and adds his post-it while waiting in the lunch line!
We think beauty is . . .
Brandon, Nick and Owen
Natural beauty vs what tends to be shown in edited images
Some of the results:
Connected resources:
Emma, Nauticah and Karen
Our Focus
We focused on Body Positivity! With our chalkboard easel, we created a Body Positivity board where we asked a series of questions for people to answer on the board. Along with this, we added colorful pictures and messages for self-love. Included is different shapes of trees and different shapes of yummy foods. Our easel will be displayed in Hunt Middle School, where students and faculty can write and look at the board!
Resources
Hailey, Caleb, Fields, Eli, Mason and William
Focus and Message
Resources
Mia, Christina, Olivia, Selma and Bindhiya
In our project we are doing index cards and putting quotes on them and then putting some designs on around them like flowers,sun, and some vines of the flowers.And the beauty side of it is putting quotes on it and the quotes are about beauty or your way of defining beauty. We are also going to put these index cards in the bathrooms of Champlain College and Hunt Middle School.
RESOURCES
https://youtu.be/jA8inmHhx8c
Kaley, Ava and Ella
Kindness Rocks!
References
Our Pinterest Board!
“One message at just the right moment can change someone’s entire day, outlook, life”
-TKRP
Simon, Alen and Daniel
Our group project was to create chalk boards with messages about masculinity. We wanted to make sure to show that these false notions of masculinity are actually false. We wanted to attack toxic masculinity and stereotypes that exist within the life of a person who identifies as male.
Our message to all males is to BE YOURSELF.
We decided to hang these in the students’ classrooms.
Emily, Besasta, Lyla and Riley
Mind | Body | Face | Heart
“You Are Beautiful!” Reminders
Sources of Beauty!
Powerful Women
by Mackenzie, Abby, Izzy, Hadley
Women Empowerment!
Hidden Fortunes
They have been distributed across the 3rd and 4th level at CCM. Exact location is not disclosed as they are meant to be hidden.
Resources
Pravesh, Krrish and Sawan
For our project we went around Champlain College campus and first asked them if we could take their photos. Then, we asked them to explain, in 4-5 words, “What do you think beauty is?” or “What does beauty mean?”
We wrote their answers down in a notebook. We printed out the photos, glued them onto a poster board and wrote their quote underneath their photo. We wanted to get their perspective on beauty.
Daniel, Bjorn and Aydan
Focus and Location
Focus and Message
Photos
Kaya, Sophia and Maya
The purpose of our project was to paint rocks with general messages of positivity and self love. We plan on decorating both Hunt Middle School and Champlain Colleges’ Finney Quad with these rocks on the walkway to inspire others.
inspiration
Here are some of the final rocks that we will be placing around the Hunt and Champlain campuses.
Where it will be installed
HMS and Champlain campuses
Benjamin, Kolby and Julian
Our Focus:
We would like to install these post-it notes of beauty in Hunt and Champlain bathrooms.
Inspiration:
We watched Robert Hoge’s Ted Talk “Own Your Face” which was inspirational to our quotes
Valearie, Luca and Apsa
The focus for our project was diversity and beauty in everyone. We thought that by making our art we could show Hunt that beauty is in everyone. We made popsicle sticks and coupon posters with messages, basically saying: “_____ is beautiful, everyone is beautiful, you are beautiful!”
We put our popsicle sticks everywhere around Hunt and a coupon poster in each wing. Hopefully people find them and get a positive message.
To see more photos of our guerilla art work day,
How it all began...
“What My Name Means” Poems
We introduced ourselves to each other through these poems before we met.
First Meet-Up
Come up with a unique handshake!
We watched Robert Hoge’s TEDx Talk: “Own Your Face”...
Robert states, “Funnily enough, my ugliness made it easier to own my face than many of you.”
What does he mean by this? Do you agree with him? How can we choose to own our own faces?
… and discussed within our groups:
Then, we worked collaboratively to explore images of beauty representing various cultural, ethnic, racial, gender, diversely-abled, and generational ideals:
1. What stands out to you about what this image is trying to show you is beautiful?
2. How do you think someone in the same racial, ethnic, historical, gender or age group as the person or people in the picture might be impacted by this image?
3. How do you think someone in a different racial, ethnic, historical, gender or age group might be impacted by this image?
We asked ourselves...
… and shared our thinking with the whole group:
GROUP PROJECT: SPREAD YOUR BEAUTIFUL MESSAGE!
Inspired by ideas in Keri Smith’s book The Guerilla Art Kit, groups chose a focus and planned their guerilla art project:
BEAUTY PROJECT ASSESSMENT CRITERIA:
Research process:
Gather 3-5 resources that complement your beauty project ideas in the form of websites, videos, texts, or other multimedia sources such as poems, stories or images.
Collaboration:
Hunt Middle School and Champlain College students worked together cooperatively to create a work plan and divide the work equitably to create a final project.
Creativity and Quality:
Effort
Artistic quality
Time spent on project
Your message:
Is designed to create positive world change ___
Is thoughtful, clear and deliberate ____
Is published for public consumption ___
Addresses concept of beauty ____
Hunt Curricular Connections:
“Core 240 ‘BODY IMAGE’ focuses on the concept of body image and its social, political and personal implications. We'll weave together sociological and historical research about body image with lived experience, popular culture, media analysis and phenomenology. We will also show how race, gender, social class, and sexual orientation influence how bodies are seen. This course examines what it means to be embodied, what it means to look at our (or other people's) bodies, and what it means to be looked at in turn. We will also trace the connections between body image, identity, oppression, and empowerment.”
Champlain College students are enrolled in Prof. Kristin Novotny’s “Bodies” Course:
Autumn Bangoura, BSD Equity instructional leader, led circles and activities to help sixth graders explore these questions:
Other foundational work at Hunt:
Sixth graders created tableaux to explore concepts of beauty in fairy tales:
Please keep this slide for attribution.