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Check out these highlights from our student showcase! The LAB would like to thank all our amazing students for their hard work and courage to perform! Here’s some student poetry as well. Enjoy!

This art work was created by a Washington Middle School student. He is part of a Visual Art group facilitated by Kyle Johanson, our VISTA worker who also happens to be a visual artist. Kyle is teaching our students about how art can be a healthy way to express their ideas. In this group, he was talking about the artist Jackson Pollock and his technique of “drip painting”, and this student created a beautiful piece! Jackson Pollock was part of a greater art movement called Abstract Expressionism, which was developed to convey emotion and feeling through a visual language.
If you’d like to see Kyle’s work, check out his website at www.kylejohanson.com

The next picture featured here was created by another student in Kyle’s Washington Visual Art Group.  In his two canvasses, this student told the story that one shows “happiness” looking out into the world, and the other canvas, showing the scary things in life looking back in through the window.

Shop for your spring flowers and help support The Lab!

Click on the coupon to the left and print out this coupon and bring it to Linder’s Flower Market (www.linders.com) on the weekend of May 6 – 9, and The Lab will receive 15% of the Lab sales that weekend.

All money raised will go to engage and hire community guest artists and support the development of our Technology Lab (digital cameras, digital video cameras, piano keyboards, microphones etc…)

Wellstone Elementary’s drum line knows what it means to combine hard work with fun.  On March 10, thirty sixth-graders from Wellstone marched into the Lab with bucket drums, trash barrels, and percussive poles.  They danced and stomped, and made a bass boom louder than any amp we’ve heard at the Lab. Led by a brilliant educator, Jamal Abdur-Salaam, these artists demonstrated what it means to be a mature team – and the power that comes from that effort.

Students from Murray were in the audience, and Jamal told them what this bucket drumming was all about. These sixth graders are drumming first and foremost as a reminder of why they are in school.  Their call and response goes:

Why do we go to school? “To learn!”

Why else? “To figure out what we can do!”

Why else? “To become!”

What a great compliment to the work that happens at the Lab.  We create a safe space and invite students to get creative.  And Glo reminds students every week that they are hear to find another side of themselves, a person they can be proud of.

As Jamal said, ”It’s the person playing the bucket that makes it sound like what it is.  You get out of it what you put into it. And I like to connect that to life. You get out of your life what you put into it.”

We are so thankful that Jamal and his students came to visit, and plan on it happening again.

Marc Anderson (www.fathands.com) performed for our March 9th Enrichment show for Murray Jr. High.
He is an African Drummer who has performed and taught all over the world.  He is seen here playing a drum from Ghana called Kpanlogo.
Marc has also offered a 7-week group for our students from St. Andrews.  Thanks, Marc!

A video clip is on the way….stay tuned!

Hey folks! Check out these sweet pics from an enrichment @ The LAB last week! What great self portraits!

Last week we had two fantastic enrichments with junior high students from Washington and Battle Creek. In the Visual LAB we got busy making mandalas! These circular pieces of art originated in India as a meditation practice. Mandala is a Sanskrit word meaning circle, sacred and unity. At The LAB we’ve been using mandalas as a way to focus and work through thoughts and emotions which might be hard to put words to. The process of laying down colors, shapes and lines helps bring clarity to the thoughts and feelings of our students (and staff!) Please enjoy these examples from our Washington enrichment!

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