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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 06:30:27 +0100
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: Chris Barker <imagopus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [OM] High School Art
I agree Barry, it is a difficult balancing act. In a different art
form ... my younger son is a keen guitarist and his band plays gigs
occasionally at his school (state boarding school in Norfolk, East
Anglia). Letting the band play is a major boost for the kids (17/18
years old), but it is a risk that they will play "uns*uitable" music.
At the last gig, the singer failed to censor the lyrics of one Hip
Hop number and had to get off the stage early. My son was livid, but I
thought that the school got the balance about right.
OB OM content: I took some great photos of the band with OM4 and
135/2.8. My son was most impressed as one shows him looking cool in
his Oakleys with an adoring girl (apparently ;-)) watching.
Chris
>My wife teaches art at the local school, and trying to simultaneously
>satisfy a controversy-shy school board, religious conservative
>administrators, rebelling teens and one's own sense of aesthetics and
>artistic freedom makes for a tough balancing act. She had to take
>down an exhibit a day early last year after a school administrator
>objected to student editorial cartoons that were part of the exhibit.
>A perpetual balancing act.
>
>Private schools have it much easier in this regard. Vicki and I
>currently have pieces on exhibit at the St. Andrew's-Sewanee School
>art gallery, where the art program encourages students to take
>artistic risks, and sees controversial subjects as fodder for
>discussion, instead of a threat to community standards. I wish public
>schools could be more like them.
>
>OB zuiko note - my photograph in the exhibit was a macro photograph
>of a Library card taken with OM-4T, Olympus auto bellows and 100/2.8
>at f/11.
>
>BBB
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