Mrs. Jakymyc, from ArtQuest, worked with the students today to create wooden plaques with a Christmas scene of the nativity. First, students painted their wooden rectangular pieces with black and a hint of blue to provide the night setting, Then, with white paint, stars were dotted onto the sky with one star transformed into the famous Star of Bethlehem with a sparkling bead and rays of light. Using stencil and white chalk, students traced the image of the Holy Family in the manger shortly after Jesus' birth. We went to the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) to view their current exhibit “Anthropocene”, a dramatic illustration of how we, individually and collectively, are leaving a human signature on our world. World-renowned photographer Edward Burtynsky and multiple award-winning filmmakers, Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier, created a powerful series of new images, including large-scale murals, film sequences and augmented reality (AR) apps. The artists reveal evidence of human impact on the planet, from climate change and species extinction to extraction and the terraforming of the Earth’s surface. By using innovative augmented reality technologies, students were able to connect with people, places and moments they would not otherwise experience. After selecting the image that affected them the most, students wrote a short reflection about the piece.
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