Classroom teachers often feel pressure to choose between using standards-based lessons and activities that engage their students' creativity and encourage personal expression. In Jump Write In!, however, the experienced writer-teachers from WritersCorps offer numerous exercises that do both: build key standards-based writing skills and give voice to youth. Through poetry, fiction, personal narrative, and playwriting, students will improve their writing skills by being invited to put their truths on the page. Perfect for a moment of inspiration as well as for deeper exploration, these easy-to-use and field-tested activities engage students from a variety of ethnic, educational, and economic backgrounds and encourage the recognition that their voices matter. The book's eleven chapters include: Dozens of exercises accompanied by teacher notes and suggestions. Links to standards for each activity. Examples of student work. An overview of the writing process from icebreakers to editing. Suggestions for further reading. Order your copy today.

Jump Write In! : Creative Writing Exercises for Diverse Classrooms, Grades 6-12

WritersCorps

Judith Tannenbaum

Literature & Fiction

Jossey-Bass

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Nancy Davidson: Breathless

David Frankel

Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania

No longer the Muzak of the decorative arts world, wallpaper has lately fallen back into fashion. Though once derided by Modernists and Minimalists alike for its loud co-option of architectural space, the potential of wallpaper as an environmental medium can now be appreciated again. (One might speculate on the influence that a certain lifestyle magazine has had on this trend.) In On the Wall, an exhibition that originated at the Rhode Island School of Design's Museum of Art and traveled to The Fabric Workshop in Philadelphia, 39 contemporary artists contributed wallpaper works, some newly created for the show. Included are works by John Baldessari, Nicole Eisenman, General Idea, Robert Gober, Rodney Graham, Renée Green, Jenny Holzer, Jim Isermann, Roy Lichtenstein, Glenn Ligon, Virgil Marti, Takashi Murakami, Paul Noble, Jorge Pardo, Matthew Ritchie, Kiki Smith, Do-Ho Suh, Rosemarie Trockel and Andy Warhol, among others. This catalogue features reproductions of the artist-designed wallpapers, related essays and an overview of the medium's history as an art form.

On The Wall: Contemporary Wallpaper [exhibition: Feb. -Sep. 2003]

Arts & Photography

Marion Boulton Stroud

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Museum of Art, RISD; Fabric Workshop & Museum

Ceramic Interpretations Eastern State Penitentiary Philadelphia Museum of Art 2010 with Jody Clowes

John Perreault

Jo Lauria

Jody Clowes

Jeff Guido

Clay Studio

"During the eighties, the metal reliefs grew in both complexity and scale.Starting as relatively simple bunched and folded forms, they became significantly larger over the years, extending out in several directions on the wall, often from a central knot or bow. Despite the rigidity and sheer weight of the material, the metal sculptures miraculously seem to retain the lightness and flexibility of the original mesh understructure, appearing to float like billowing cloth. A key work from this period, Kearny Street Bows and Fans (1985), is composed of five separate forms that seem to fly across the wall, defying gravity. Titles from this series, such as Hydra (1982) and Megisti II (1984), have Greek references including ancient or mythological figures, celestial constellations, and place names.4 Considering Benglis’s Greek family background (on her father’s side), one cannot help but associate these dramatic pleated forms with the draped garments of classical statues or patterns on ancient columns. In fact, Benglis made several trips to Greece with her paternal grandmother, who was born on the island of Kastellorizo (also known as Megisti) and took the artist-to-be to see the Acropolis in Athens for the first time when she was only eleven. The six larger-than-life size Caryatids on the Erechtheion must have impressed the young Benglis, with their dignified postures and drapery carved so it simultaneously covers the female figures and still reveals the shapes of their bodies. Whereas the Greek sculptor carved away or subtracted material from a block of stone, Benglis extends sculptural traditions as she works with pliable materials over an armature to build up form. But like the ancients, Benglis’s pleated or draped surfaces become synonymous with their forms." - from Lynda Moving Forward, Circling Back by Judith Tannenbaum

Lynda Benglis

Locks Art Publications

For the past decade, Providence, RI, has been the site of a radical underground art scene, giving rise to a multi-faceted, unbridled aesthetic that is as distinct as it is influential. As a celebration of the movement, The Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design is presenting the exhibition Wunderground. The companion publication, Wunderground- Providence, 1995 to the Present features a foreword by celebrated artist and designer Gary Panter, 128 pages of full color illustrations and 4 fold-out gatefolds. Artists, musicians, writers and students who created and witnessed the rise of the movement offer shorter texts providing a kaleidoscopic portrait of a time and place.

Wunderground: Providence, 1995 to the Present

Maya Allison

Sara Agniel

History & Criticism

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