U32 High School, VT: The Record Project
Earlier this spring, I worked with the entire 9th grade team (135 students), facilitating an arts-integrated residency through the VT Creative Schools Initiative. Looking through the lens of Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, students explored the nature of duality and personal integrity in both public and private lives. Over the course of 7 days, they designed and created album covers representing the A & B sides of their personalities which then formed the stage-set for the John Jorgenson Quintet performance at the Barre Opera House. Their designs can be found on Instagram, @therecordproject
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- Listening to vinyl with nostalgia
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- Students design A and B sides of their personality
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- Album covers carried a message
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- Experimenting with techniques
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- Some ideas were based on visual design
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- Some messages were political
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- The set-design took the form of a physical instagram feed
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- Students upload their designs to instagram
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- All 135 records fit into one record box
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- The finished set-design
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- The U32 orchestra plays with the John Jorgenson Quintet
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- The incredible 9th grade teaching team, Meg Allison, Erin Mooney and Anne Decker
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- The indomitable John Jorgenson Quintet