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text from the article pretty much "tells" what happened on the Civic
Center. But what it does not mention is that we worked with all 84 students
at the same time. We had a little over an hour to teach 840 fingers
to draw with the Tape, cover the theme, and make sure that the enthusiastic
herd of instant public artists was stampeding in the same direction.
The theme, by the way, was directed by the concept "Shed A Light On
Character". That phrase was the accumulated influence of two different
events: The Young Thomas Edison play being performed at the Civic Center
and Statewide Iowa Character Week starting that week. The students tackled
this theme by drawing themselves onto the wall with emphasis placed
on what a third party would conclude about that person with just the
clues from their artwork. The impact that this number of students made
in an hour was impressive, and with this many people shedding a light
on their character at the same time, it got pretty bright. |
