Week of 8/11/2025 - First week back

Welcome back to another of creating, learning and collaborating!

Staff returned to work on Wednesday, 8/6/25 and students returned on Monday, 8/11/25. Our week 1 flew by and we finished our beginning of the year collaborative art!!!

We completed this over three half days and two full days of school. There were 18 classes that participated, approximately 430 students in grades 2-5. This is the largest collaborative work I have installed at Zamorano!

This year we were inspired by the art of Peter Bynum, a contemporary American artist who creates organic shapes on large pieces of glass using acrylic paint and uses LED lights to illuminate them.

With each class, I talked about my classroom expectations and then we had a class discussion about what we notice and wonder in the work above. Students shared that the work reminded them of coral reefs, fingerpainting, the brain, germs, trees and veins among many other things.

Students created a large organic shape on the transparency using a black Sharpie marker. They then cut 3 pieces of cellophane paper to create organic shapes, glued them using overlapping on the transparency and then created lines using the black Sharpie. Once done, they cut along the black line of the organic shape they initially created to complete their work. Different classes worked on different color.

We illuminated the installation in our auditorium using LED strip lights - a great way to start the year and build community!