wsc student work samples slide show
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Student Work
Media & Arts Program
World Savvy Challenge
American Youth Leadership Program
Through World Savvy’s Media & Arts Program, students explore global themes like immigration & identity, sustainable
communities, and power in a global society through art & media from a personal, local,
national and global perspective; students then create their own art & media that
reflect their perspectives on these issues.
Students designed the cover of the “green issue” of a fashion magazine incorporating content from units on trash, up-cycling and
environmental justice.
Students created three self portrait stencils: one straight print, one creative free choice
with a background design of choosing, and a third that incorporated the poem students wrote in a World Savvy workshop entitled
“My American Dream”. These poems speak of the challenges they have faced in their lives,
as well as their hopes for the future.
After participating in a World Savvy workshop on cultural diffusion, students reflected on how cultural diffusion had affected their own lives. What music, food, religion or art was part of their everyday lives yet came from another
culture? Students picked the culture that had the greatest impact on them, and then drew themselves in the traditional clothing of that
culture. Some students chose to do a variation on this project by drawing themselves in the
clothing of their own cultural heritage.
Students examined labels and stereotypes both personally and
with regard to immigrant populations and created their own
“My People Are” poems and self portraits to showcase their own
identity.
Students illustrated their own migration stories in comic form
Students investigated the relationship between art and advocacy: using art to affect change in communities. First
they explored what makes up their own communities, creating “found art” collages that represent and reflect our home
environments with objects found in those very communities. With the reality of their communities in mind, each student then chose one social (in)justice issue to stand up for and change. To help them do this, they created a Community
Super Hero persona that they became through photography, words and collage. Switching from paint brush to pen, they
then wrote advocacy letters to local congressmen and women, voicing the need for change.
Students created original sculpture from found materials and writing as a way to explore ideas of interdependence in the
environment and our lives. At a later date, they returned to their sculptures to witness
the effects of time and decay.
Students in San Francisco explored green architecture and what it means to “Go Green” and then designed their own ideal schools with
sustainable resources. They considered earthquake safety, space and capacity
requirements, and a building created with sustainable materials can actually be an
educational tool in itself.
Through the World Savvy Challenge, students work in teams to identify a problem related to an annual global
theme. They explore the causes of the problem and identify potential local,
national and global solutions. They then present their research and solutions in a creative format, which they present to judges at a culminating live or online
competition.
Student created exhibits representing their research & solutions on a range of global
issues
Students developed creative performances to share their research and solutions on a
global theme.
Students developed websites to showcase their research and solutions to global problems
http://worldsavvysustainableagriculture.weebly.com
Students developed documentaries to share their
research and solutions to global problems
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VdGPth7hyg&feature=youtu.be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50Ivn5S08yM&feature=youtu.be
http://youtu.be/vhZxTQnNRb0
American Youth Leadership Program
Students created social action projects to share their knowledge
about the impacts of climate change in Bangladesh and on
their own communities
