Artwork from SOLA- Students in Afghanistan

SOLA open house with snowman  1-10-2014

A year ago, I met Shabana, the founder of SOLA and suggested that we do an art exchange.  It was with SOLA in mind that I created the art project on Identity.... something every teenager in the world is grappling with.  Working with schools abroad always takes time. We are in different times zones, have a different set of constraints, and different school year schedules. The students who participated in this project have zero to minimal experience with art. The students from SOLA have never created a work of art before, let alone one that is about self-expression or identity. SOLA is an inclusionary girls' school. That is to say, they have two boys. They were founded with boys and will end with them, but after next year have none in the foreseeable future. It's impressive to see how each student expresses him or herself. I'm thrilled to finally have artwork from Afghanistan to add to our collection of student art! SOLA was the inspiration for this project.

Abida

First, in half of my picture I put our flag color because I love my country a lot. Black color means the dark time in Afghanistan the time that Afghan people had a lot of problems and in Afghanistan we had a lot of misery. The red color means violence and bloody time in our country, it means that a lot of brave Afghan people sacrificed themselves for new generation and having a good life, and the green color means emancipation and no fighting. JUST PEACE!!!

Again I want to say about my picture I mean about the colors that I have used them. I used red, green and blue colors because they mean different cultures. Culture shows the identification and tradition of one tribe to other tribes. Culture can be one of the important qualities of a county or tribe.

My family is God's biggest gift for me. I love to be with my mother, sisters and brother forever. I really love my family like the saying says:

No love is greater than mother love-----------------no care is greater than father.

My wish is that one day in Afghanistan or other place I wanna ride a bike and car but the first one is a bike. And I would love to have a horse and I love to wear a watch and I should be on time in my hole stapes of live. My big wish is to learn computer and my type should be fast in computer. I like to recite holly Quran, when I am reciting the holly Quran I will be so comfortable.

The other thing important to me is education. Education is the most necessary thing in our live if we don't have education we are like a blind people but if we have education we can make something from our self. I don't mind if I have to sit on the floor at school. All I want is education. I am afraid of no one. And the most important thing for me is being an educated girl.

That things is in my heart it is help poor people. I have a dream that one day we will not have any poor people in the Afghanistan. I want to be a person that helps poor people, because when I see a child that is begging, my heart is burning.

One of my big wishes is being peace in Afghanistan and people should love each other, and respect each other. And my dreams for Afghanistan is this that, Afghanistan should be an improved country and it improves a lot in every part - especially in education.

Lake Quargha 3-19-2014

Lailoma

Hello my name is Lailoma. I want to give some information about my Art project. It took 3 days I  worked on my art project.

I used lots of things to do my project.This art project show the things that I like. From face every one looking different. But it is necessary that we know about the feeling or characteristic of people. So we also did this project that we should think what we are? Or what we want to be? This project help us to think about our self, and let know they people know about us better.

Babur Gardens

Susa

Shogofa

Convocation 9-20-2013

Madia

Please scroll to the end of the slideshow to view the rest of the artwork by SOLA's students.

 (Slides 89-114)

The Completed Project- Sonoma Academy & Roseland University Prep

Iconography of the Ancient Civilizations of Mesoamerica, Rome and Greece through the Medium of Encaustic

Sonoma Academy Studio Art Class

Roseland University Prep Students on the SA campus

The group project is finally complete!

 Please come view the final artwork. It is on permanent display in the administrative hallway at Sonoma Academy while the other work is at Roseland University Prep. Congratulations to all the students for their experimentation with encaustics.

Roseland University Prep Artwork-Identity Project

Roseland Students at work.

Juan Arragon

Morgan Caricchio

To view more Roseland students' work  go to slides 60-73

Joshibi's Interpretation of the Indentity Project

Emi Szuki

These are just a few pieces by Joshibi students. Go to the slideshow to view more great examples.

The final display at Joshibi, Tokyo, Japan.

American and Japanese artwork.

Kanna Himeno

Riho Minemura

Emiri Nomura

To view Joshibi's artwork view slides: 45-65 in the slideshow.

Students & Faculty from Beijing #4 School Visit and Experiment with Encaustics

Lin YanJie, Zhang XinFang, Liu WenJun

These are the first high school students and English teacher in all of China to paint with encaustics! (Their teacher is on the left.)

Beijing #4 Painting

 Beijing #4 is one of the top high schools in all of China. For the last 13 years students have come to visit Sonoma Academy and our students have gone to Beijing. This year a few students wanted to try painting.  They decided to paint the symbol of their school using wax.

Students touching the work of an SA student.

Starting the painting.

RUP & SA Students Paint at Sonoma Academy

RUP students working on their first encaustic piece!

 

Building Texture

SA student & RUP student

Sonoma Academy Art Class Visits Roseland University Prep Art Class

Fred Vedder's Classroom

 Today, students from Sonoma Academy went to visit Roseland University Prep for an introduction to the joint project, Iconography of the Ancient Civilizations of Mesoamerica, Greece and Rome through Encaustic.  Art instructors, Hillary Younglove and Fred Vedder gave encaustic demonstrations to the students.

Hillary demonstrating gold transfer.

The project introduces students to the iconography of the ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica, Rome and Greece through the medium of encaustic. A variety of techniques will be covered: painting flat and building texture, embedding photography and doing tranfers, and applying three-dimensional objects.  Each student will complete a minimum of two 8x8 inch panels, one Roman or Greek inspired, and one Olmec, Aztec, Zapotec, Mixtec or Mayan. These panels will become part of two 4x6 foot installations using motifs from these cultures, comparing and contrasting epigraphy, colossus heads, other forms of sculpture, architecture, and wall painting. These panels will reside on both campuses.

RUP students experimenting with encaustics.

Fred talking about building texture with wax.

Hillary demonstrating image transfer.

http://www.roselandsd.org/RUP/

http://www.sonomaacademy.org/

This project has been generously sponsored by R&F Paints Color for Knowledge Program and Friedman's.

Various encaustic styles and samples.