Student Projects & Adaptations: Wesley Highland
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Summary:

Lynda Abraham-Braff art teacher with the Wesley Highland School worked with Kyle Abraham, artist educator at The Andy Warhol Museum to explore the Critical Response Unit. During this collaboration, students visited the museum once and were visited by museum staff for silkscreen printing at their school. Abraham-Braff followed the steps in the lesson plan but made adaptations for the individual needs of her students. Wesley Highland focused on the point-counterpoint model of Jackson Pollack’s No. 4 and Andy Warhol’s Yarn, comparing silkscreen printing with gestural painting. Abraham-Braff used one-on-one and group discussion to generate Intuitive and Critical Responses to the work. Students created their own works using both painting and silkscreen to understand the hand vs. machine comparison that occurred throughout the art world of the 1950s and ’60s.