IGM, Kipp School and Sandy Bliefer's Art Opening

USC IGM Art Gallery and Community Program
KIPP School Student Docents at Natural & Unnatural Transformation Opening

KIPP students respond to art and serve as docents for the art show opening of
Sandy Bliefer's"Natural and Unnatural Transformations."

November 18, 2004 to February 28, 2005

Art
washes from the SOUL
the dust of
Everyday Life.
Pablo Picasso

"We must become a united voice for the
purposeful use of art for a
better and more joyful
world."
Penelope Torribio

USC
Institute for Genetic Medicine
reaches out to the arts and community

HSC's Cultural Events Guild, directed by Lynn Crandall,
is dedicated to building collaborations among artists and organizations
to provide creative educational programs for the Los Angeles Community.

Lynn helps bring artists and organizations together.

Sandy Bliefer's said, "The Kipp School students taught me a lot about my art."

I believe that all of the adults at this art opening will agree that we learned
a great deal about responding to art from the articulate and confident students
from Kipp Charter School, Los Angeles.

A big thanks to all of the students.


	Audience listening to poet Dale Peterson.
Art transforms the ordinary into the magical.	He advises all of us to "find something new in things we take for granted."
	Adelle and Lizbeth explain that this is an abstract work and asked us what did we see? I saw a mountain, a snow capped peak, someone else saw a kite, a tent to camp in, another patterns on the sand when the tide pulls the water back from the shore.

"This is the great thing about abstracts they can be whatever we want,"
explain the students from Kipp Charter School

Fabian talks about River Rock.
What do you see?

Paper Becoming a Tree

"You see, nature is wonderful!
we must be aware if we are
caring for nature or wasting
our natural resources."

Daisy and Joslin

"We shouldn't waste paper, but
use it wisely."

Ivy Screen,
docents: Ruth, Jose and Lalo

	TREE TALK ART TALK
Ruta Empakeris, Gallery Event Planner, Karen Lockert, Lincoln H.S. Art Teacher, Wendy Kelley, Gallery Curator with KIPP Charter School Students.	TREE TALK ART TALK	USC graduate student Gracie Neuman and Lincoln Heights artist, Ricardo Martins, talk about the creative process with KIPP docents.

Wall XIII, "It looked to us like war and two day old blood," explained Victor and Kurdt. "But then we found out it was a wall, so we think it is a wall of memories."

	Art and Community		Ecology and the Future
	Greg Wright, writer and IGM Art Gallery member, uses technology to create "pictures of the preferred future."		Community documentor, Jeannie Orlander, USC graduate student and her Warm and Fuzzy team are working with Lincoln Heights community activist Shirley Fierro and Neighborhood Council Board Member Martha Riely, to document their partnership with Cal Trans and the North Broadway Task Forace on the Adopt a Highway Interstate 5 ramp beautification project.

Paper Becomes Butterfly
docents: Max, Minerva and Denise


	Kipp student Max explains that "We identify with this art because we all hope to become beautiful butterflies one day,"

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