Coincidentally, on the same night as this gallery opening, Hartford Public Schools’ outgoing superintendent announced through the Equity 2020 advisory panel plans to close Burns, MLK, and Simpson-Waverly schools at the end of the 2016-2017 academic year, with other schools potentially closing permanently and Clark not reopening, if the Board of Education approves. Part of Hoyer’s exhibit includes materials reclaimed from an abandoned school elsewhere in the country.
Hoyer, the Ann Plato Fellow at Trinity College for 2016-17, uses a combination of printmaking and installation to recreate a classroom, complete with desks, chalkboard, and the United States flag. Colorful monoprints created from the student desk tops hang on the “classroom” walls.
The front of the room appears like a standard issue classroom, except for the message on the board, a quoted apology issued by the Missouri Board of Education vice president in a commencement address at Normandy Middle School. The back is immediately more dramatic, with numbers spilling down one wall to illustrate a plummeting graduation rate in Minneapolis. Blue and yellow pencils shoved into ceiling tiles show the racial disparities of graduation rates in the same district. On the back wall is “Privilege Flower,” created from standardized test bubble sheets and inspired by the Doris Marshall Institute for Education and Action‘s explanation of social identity and how both privileges and disadvantages work to form it.
If you care about the education experience that too many of our youth are missing out on, this exhibit is worth checking out.
Jade Hoyer’s work is on display Monday-Saturday, 1-6 p.m. until December 9, 2016. The gallery is closed from November 23-27. This is located in Austin Arts Center at Trinity College.
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In a time when a self-proclaimed equity warrior abandons her post only halfway through her four-year contract and few bat an eye because those in front of the classroom are rotating out just as fast, Jade Hoyer‘s work ‘study’ manages to comment on public education simply and with few buzzwords.
Coincidentally, on the same night as this gallery opening, Hartford Public Schools’ outgoing superintendent announced through the Equity 2020 advisory panel plans to close Burns, MLK, and Simpson-Waverly schools at the end of the 2016-2017 academic year, with other schools potentially closing permanently and Clark not reopening, if the Board of Education approves. Part of Hoyer’s exhibit includes materials reclaimed from an abandoned school elsewhere in the country.
Hoyer, the Ann Plato Fellow at Trinity College for 2016-17, uses a combination of printmaking and installation to recreate a classroom, complete with desks, chalkboard, and the United States flag. Colorful monoprints created from the student desk tops hang on the “classroom” walls.
The front of the room appears like a standard issue classroom, except for the message on the board, a quoted apology issued by the Missouri Board of Education vice president in a commencement address at Normandy Middle School. The back is immediately more dramatic, with numbers spilling down one wall to illustrate a plummeting graduation rate in Minneapolis. Blue and yellow pencils shoved into ceiling tiles show the racial disparities of graduation rates in the same district. On the back wall is “Privilege Flower,” created from standardized test bubble sheets and inspired by the Doris Marshall Institute for Education and Action‘s explanation of social identity and how both privileges and disadvantages work to form it.
If you care about the education experience that too many of our youth are missing out on, this exhibit is worth checking out.
Jade Hoyer’s work is on display Monday-Saturday, 1-6 p.m. until December 9, 2016. The gallery is closed from November 23-27. This is located in Austin Arts Center at Trinity College.
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