Student Projects & Adaptations: Schenley High School
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Summary:

In the sixth partnership year with Schenley High School, Artist Educator Carrie Schneider worked with three art teachers and four classes of students to create a large-scale mural at the school based on students’ comparative interpretations of the 1950s to their contemporary lives. In the first half of the project, Schneider worked collaboratively with printer, Bob Beckman ceramist Dave Deily, ceramics teacher Barbara Shuty and 25 students in two ceramics classes to create a permanent ceramic wall mural consisting of tiles silk screened by students with their interpretive images.

The second collaboration involved art teachers Ron Kalla, Pam Haywood and 30 students to create interpretive projects, silk screened prints and a permanent collaborative silk-screened wall mural at Schenley. The teams used the point counter point model to compare the Beat poets of the 1950s and “Goth” culture today, women’s roles in the media (from an apron-wearing housewife to sports star Lisa Leslie), the evolution of TV dinners over the past 50 years and the 1950s fear of a nuclear attack to fears of terrorism in the 21st century. Some works from this project were exhibited at The Andy Warhol Museum’s second annual Youth Invasion.