Digital Art exhibition by 7th and 8th grade students [Raul Yzaguirre School For Success (RYSS), Houston, Texas] to be held at the East End Gallery, Houston Institute for Culture, 708-B Telephone Road, Tlaquepaque Plaza, Houston, Texas: Exhibition: January 7 - 18, 2009 Opening: January 9 [Friday], 5:30-7:30PM Over 100 Digital Art prints by these students will be displayed, and short videos by students from Deady Middle School and Southmore Intermediate School [Pasadena ISD] will be screened. The online version of the RYSS Digital Art exhibition can be seen at:
These same Digital Art prints by the RYSS students will be displayed and
projected as a slide show at the upcoming 4th annual Carnival of
e-Creativity & Change-agents Conclave [CeC & CaC], February 27 to March 1,
2009 in the sylvan spaces of Sattal Estate, just above Bhimtal, near
Nainital, in the Lower Kumaon of the new Himalayan Indian state of
Uttarakhand, India:
Information about the RYSS Digital Art Exhibition:
Middle school students [7th and 8th grades] at Raul Yzaguirre School For Success [RYSS], Houston, Texas, U.S.A. participated in a classroom assignment involving GIMP 2 [Photoshop equivalent] photo software and vocabulary building through word identification/meaning via the Internet. The students were given a particular word to research the meaning of online then translate that meaning in photo software as Digital Art. As a result, vocabulary enhancement came to the forefront with acquired skills of manipulating photographs ... utilizing various tools and filters within the software. This cognitive and creative process placed the students in a new environment of hands-on with photo software and the requirement of researching the "real" meaning of a word [vocabulary] then translating this "reality" into a "creative" one through visualization. "Making art" in this respect was a first-time approach for these students and precedent setting for this school [RYSS] to manipulate photographs via photo software to make Digital Art. Digital Artists abound in all sectors as a part of this Digital Revolution we find ourselves a part of these days, which means this classroom process is also vocational. Another interesting aspect to this project/process is the fact that the students ... who usually don't enjoy vocabulary building within a language arts setting ... took the word assignments in stride to be able to visualize their meanings as art and in this case, Digital Art. Disclaimer: photographs for the manipulations were downloaded from the Internet strictly for educational purposes. Contacts: Tom R. Chambers
Mark Lacy
Shankar Barua
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