Residency - Walker Art Center - Sarah Abare - 3 hrs
Residency - SouthWest High School - Cecily Spano - 2 hrs
This week I had a tour, debriefing, and brainstorming with Sarah Abare from the Walker Art Center, and spent some time with Cecily Spano and the Revolution-180 class in the middle of Lake Harriet's frozen surface at their Revolution Shack.
(The shack and lake in question.)
The Walker Art Center is in a period of departmental change, so to witness the perspective of the new educational department's processes was interesting. There seemed to be great care in considering the experience of visitors on the autism spectrum, which is wonderful. I'm excited to experience and help out with their free family-oriented Saturday event.
On the lake, Southwest high school hosted a number of shacks customized by the students with different themes and activities, with students braving the cold to direct visitors to the various huts. The revolution shack was filled with poetry with the idea of revolution in mind, and this shack was where I discussed with Cecily the work I was going to undertake with her class.