The Wrap It Up Youth Video Project
This project engages students at Burnett Middle School in San Jose's Japantown in creating video interviews with local mural artists. It will engage students in creating visual art for a public art installation as well. Student created videos will be linked via QR codes included on the mural installation. This youth project, led by Corinne Takara, is made possible in part by a grant from the Silicon Valley Community Foundation's Donor Circle for the Arts and through fiscal sponsorship by Next Vista for Learning. Videos will be created under the guidance of D.J. Ashford, Studio Art Teacher and AYV Lead Educator at Burnett Middle School. The video component of the project will be conducted in fall 2012. The visual art component will be conducted in winter 2012 or spring 2013.
(More to come soon.) The videos will be on both the Next Vista for Learning education website and on the Japantown Mural Project Website.
(More to come soon.) The videos will be on both the Next Vista for Learning education website and on the Japantown Mural Project Website.
The mural above will have a QR code that links to this video about archeological artifacts uncovered at the site: http://www.nextvista.org/heinlenville-san-joses-chinatown/
Above: This empty lot bound by 6th, Jackson, 7th, and Taylor Street will be covered in a mural fence wrap. Design firm Rasteriods is coordinating the 20 or so mural artists who will be creating the 50 mural panels. Each panel will be 9ft x 5 ft. The murals will reflect on local community: past, present and future.
The Wrap It Up! Project will engage local youth in also adding their art reflections and interviews to the fence. The project invites students to examine community identity through video interviews with mural artists, their own recordings of poetry, and spoken word reflections. In addition, students will create colorful mesh shapes to add to the fence on areas not covered by the mural. Mesh donated by Walker Bags of San Francisco specifically for the Wrap It Up project.
Sonoma State Anthropological Studies Center is graciously loaning artifact for student research and reference. These artifacts are from an anthropological dig at site of fence enclosure, Heinlenville and early Japantown artifacts.
Credits: top banner logo design incorporates art by Tamiko Rast, Corinne O. Takara, James William Moore, and Abe Menor.
The Wrap It Up! Project will engage local youth in also adding their art reflections and interviews to the fence. The project invites students to examine community identity through video interviews with mural artists, their own recordings of poetry, and spoken word reflections. In addition, students will create colorful mesh shapes to add to the fence on areas not covered by the mural. Mesh donated by Walker Bags of San Francisco specifically for the Wrap It Up project.
Sonoma State Anthropological Studies Center is graciously loaning artifact for student research and reference. These artifacts are from an anthropological dig at site of fence enclosure, Heinlenville and early Japantown artifacts.
Credits: top banner logo design incorporates art by Tamiko Rast, Corinne O. Takara, James William Moore, and Abe Menor.