May
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In March and April, five middle school students from the Battle Creek PAS program participated in an exciting and unique Art Residency at The Lab. The group was facilitated by Tess Pease, social worker, and Geriann, a Social Work graduate student intern at The LAB. The students were exposed to several art materials and projects, mostly grounded in the art form of printmaking. For example, one of the projects allowed the students to create their own t-shirt designs.
This Battle Creek Lab Visual Art residency culminated in a field trip to a place called Highpoint Center for Printmaking in Minneapolis.
While students were there, they learned how to mix colors of ink to print collagraphs that they had prepared at The Lab the previous week. (Collagraphs are a collage of shapes cut out of thick cardboard, glued onto a main board, and rolled with ink to make an image on paper after going through the press). The raised image on the board prints onto the paper after being inked. The students also learned how to run their own Collagraphs through the printing press, which was a definite highlight for them to actually bring the print to life.
The work of two of the Battle Creek students is currently being shown in the gallery at Highpoint as part of a student show running now until the end of May. We are very proud of these students, and look forward to a continued partnership with Highpoint next year.
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