Today we finished installing our Social Justice Alphabet project as part of the Art in the Open Festival. You can see all of the images on the site we created for the project, along with a project description. If you are in Philly come out to 22nd and Arch Streets to see the project live!
I’m very excited about the public art project we will be installing over the next couple of weeks. As we wrote in the intro to the project site: Philly public school students know firsthand about struggles for social justice. Recent budget cuts have forced us all to reflect upon the importance of public schools and the role of […]Read Post ›
[Cross-posted on Edutopia] I remember the first time we put a brush in my then two-year-old daughter’s hand. Perched on the edge of tiny a red chair at her wooden table, she quickly realized she could use the blueberry juice we had placed in a cup to create unique marks on the page. It was […]Read Post ›
Help us celebrate the fifth year of our collaboration with the Leah Stein Dance Company! Come out to see student-created site specific performance pieces on Friday, June 7th, between 1:00 and 3:00. A detailed schedule will be available here and inside the front door of SLA on performance day. You will never see the neighborhood […]Read Post ›
This short documentary, made by isashamedia.com, details the collaboration between the Leah Stein Dance Company and my students at Science Leadership Academy. The site specific performance pieces that they created were part of the Art in the Open Festival, 2012.
Mr J Block 