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Martine Kaczinski and Kate Marlowe's Seventh Grade
These students, reflecting on Thomas Shütte's exhibition Scenewright, sculpted self-portrait in clay of their heads, using plaster casts.
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Martine Kaczinski and Bonnie Phillips's Eighth Grade peer mediation class
This class, reflecting on the Dia installations by Robert Irwin and Dan Graham, made a multi-paneled work that inflates, allowing people to enter. The project also addressed the goals of the peer mediation class -- working together to make the piece and getting along inside of it.
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Sholto Ainslie and Candice Burnett's Eighth Grade Humanities Class
This class teaches writing as a means for contemplating all forms of art. Inspired by Dia's exhibitions and poetry readings, the students bound books and made journals.
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Naomi White and Erick Gordon's Eighth Grade English Class
For this video project, students considered the poem "Boy Breaking Glass" by Gwendolyn Brooks and Dia's exhibition "Double Vision." The class focused on narrative and basic editing.
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Warren Lueng and Ellen Wong's Eighth Grade Art Class
Using Dia's exhibition "Time Traced" as inspiration, this class used pinhole cameras to create photographs. They also addressed issues of installation.
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Naomi Plotkin and Sheila Callahan's Fifth Grade Class
After experiencing the semi-transparent walls of Robert Irwin's Excursus: Homage to the Square³, these students painted self-portraits on paper with scrim hanging in front.
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Charles Goldman and Robin Friedman's Seventh and Eighth Grade History Class
Reflecting on Dia's rooftop installation by Dan Graham, these students created a sculpture and installed it on their school rooftop.
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Steve Goss and Hortense De Castro's 8th Grade Advanced Spanish Class
The students used a variety of HTML tags to create a page that reflected on their own real-life or make-believe dreams and memories using the Fantastic Prayers and Gary Simmons' Wake web projects as inspiration.
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