PAGES High School Students Do The WEX as Curriculum

A long-time favorite project of PFW –  that was developed at the Wexner Center  and comports with  Ohio Curriculum Standards  so that  it  aligns with visual arts education, literacy, and writing for High School students, grades 9-12 –  has been PAGES.  Participants in this program come from diverse backgrounds and it is provided  to our community at no cost to schools, teachers or students.  Teachers from across the community are invited to attend a day-long orientation session and  commit to integrating PAGES into their curricula which brings both OSU educators and local artists into the classroom prior to these classes visiting the Wexner Center to experience:   (1)  A dynamic Live Performance presented by the WEXNER Center or OSU’s College of the Arts; (2) a Visual Arts gallery exhibition at the Center; and (3) a Media Arts event of a film or video.  Following each encounter  the students participate in discussions and are then asked to write in prose, poetry or do a paper on how these artistic experiences have influenced their creative thinking about art.  The goals of the project combine improving  writing skills, communication, understanding of the value of art and how it elicits diverse view points and it also provides ownership in the process as a compendium of the students’ work is published at the end of the program in a beautiful volume entitled PAGES!  You can also visit Pages Online (http://wexpagesonline.edublog.org).