BPS Visual and Performing Arts

 Youth Art Month: Interviews with Students, Practitioners, and Leaders Youth Art Month or more affectionally known as YAM, is one of the high points of the academic school year. In this post, we will hear from BPS Visual and Media Arts Content Specialist Amy Wedge and BPS arts practitioners Hilary Crane Stern and Lenira Dos Reis. In addition, and most excitedly, we will hear from their students Angelynn Dream Saldana and Naesoj Ware! Amy Wedge (she/her) BPS  Visual and Media Arts Content Specialist What is YAM ?  The Council for Art Education (CFAE) administers the program at the national level. Art shows, special exhibits, fundraisers, and school and community activities take place annually, traditionally during March, to celebrate visual art education for grades K – 12. In BPS, we traditionally hold our exhibition at City Hall. 2021 was our 27th annual celebration. What do you think YAM means to Practitioners ?  It's an opportunity for teachers to show off wha...

  In our first BPS Arts blog post, we are featuring our 39th Annual  MLK Celebration. Across the district, thousands of students were involved in honoring MLK with his words, “ Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.” With love and light guiding practitioners, students designed our first-ever virtual MLK Celebration. Framing it as Q&A, practitioners shed some “light” on how they created these displays of “ love.” Julie White, Trotter School Theatre Teacher Why did you and/or students choose what you submitted? We brainstormed a theme and so many students thought the same thing, “How can we show Kindness during a time in the world that lacks it.”  We decided to take an excerpt from a play we will present in late March called "Make A Difference". It fit perfectly.     Describe the learning process of the work you submitted? As a student body each week students watch, write and reflect on yo...