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Students at Southeast by Southeast & Richard Allen Prep have completed painting all the panels for the Dennis McNett (@wolfbat) mural.  The name of the mural is “Limpia Limpia” Meaning clean, cleansing.  Installation will be held during the week and finished by this weekend.  Stay tuned! 

Student’s at Richard Allen Preparatory Charter School are getting ready for their big student art show.  They will be showcasing their their Wolfbat spirit animal project that includes mask, tunics, and linocut prints.  Mariam is finishing up her Elephant mask using spray paint on larger areas and hand painting the smaller details.  One of our newer student Miles is doing an awesome job as a beginner at carving out linocut prints!  He has creative idea’s and is quickly catching on.  Anaja is working on tying together her tunic for the show by cutting in some fringe and adding her printed symbols.

Student’s at Richard Allen Preparatory Charter School are working on building a character around their spirit animal themed mask.  We are in the process of finishing up our linocut symbols and creating a costume personalized with the class’ printmaking designs & patterns.  Most of our cardboard sculpted masks  are complete aside from painting the final designs.

Students at Richard Allen Preparatory Charter School are in the paper mache process of making their mask.  Zayirah just finished constructing her Zebra Dog and is ready for the next step.  Jason’s Owl and Cossim’s Tiger are now fully covered in paper cache.  They will start decorating their mask using paint, spray paint and stencils. 

We are so happy to have visiting artist Dennis McNett (Wolfbat) join our class at RAPCS.  Dennis had students chose a spirit animal for inspiration and is instructing them on how to use cardboard to construct intricate masks.  Stay tuned!

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Students at RAPCS and Southeast by Southeast had fun learning more about contour, blind contour, and zoom lens drawing. We also talked about correct proportions of the head and face while working on self portraits.

Students from Richard Allen Preparatory Charter School were happy take part on Earth Day in the ribbon cutting of the Bartram’s Mile at Bartram’s Garden.  The garden has been a huge inspiration for the student’s artwork throughout the year including a mural called “Change of the Gingko” located inside the school.  By carving linocuts and printing them on fabric the students made the ribbon that included bikes, bee’s, tea drinking trees, gingko leaves, shoes, turtles, and a hiking leaf.  Along side of Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell, Senator Anthony Williams, Mayor Jim Kenney and Rapper Freeway the students took part in celebrating their ribbon being cut for the opening of Bartram’s Mile.