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Broad Strokes is a regular update from the ASA
to create greater awareness of the TREX Program (Southwest
Region). Designed for print and web presentation, it
effectively builds a sense of community among organizations that
participate in the TREX Program. Broad
Strokes features exhibition profiles, interviews with
frontline educators and art works produced by students in the
classroom. The annual tour calendar for the southwest region is
also presented under the Broad Strokes banner.
Broad Strokes promotes Alberta visual culture
and offers opportunity for people to share their experiences with
the TREX Program.
Ruth Llewellyn Handford is an accomplished art specialist at
the École John Wilson Elementary School in Innisfail. Her
mission has been to expose students to the world of art at an early
age and to enliven their enormous creative potential. Through Broad
Strokes, the ASA was proud to share with a wider audience her
insightful teaching methods, including converting her
classroom into a prehistoric cave where students made animal
paintings by flashlight and later "discovered" their lost
archeological treasures. Full story in Broad
Strokes/Fall 2009
Leia MacDonald is a high school art teacher at the Lacombe
Composite High School. She is passionate about "...the unique and
important role of art education in our schools. It allows students
the opportunity to be creative, show self expression and helps
foster divergent problem solving skills that can be transferred
across curriculums. Art rooms often become 'safe' places in schools
where diversity is not only accepted but embraced and celebrated. I
strive to develop a program that balances skill development and
exploration in a variety of mediums and personal expression." Full
story in Broad Strokes/Winter 2010
The arrival of travelling art exhibitions creates an
atmosphere of excitement and fun among the students at École Joe
Clark School in High River. Language Arts teacher Linda De Paoli
says, "During the last two years my students were actively involved
in setting up exhibitions. There is a 'gallery walk' associated
with each exhibition and connections are made to activities
occurring within the classroom. The students delight in pointing
out to me what appealed to them and why - this is my favorite
part since it can often take on a very mature tone. Interaction
with living artists helps cultivate skills necessary to creative
expression, particularly in those students with an aptitude for
art. Like athletes in sport, artists can serve as wonderful role
models for developing talent and personal values." Full story
in Broad Strokes/Fall 2008
Issues of Broad Strokes
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WINTER 2010
Cubist Self-Portraits from Elementary Students in
Lacombe
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FALL 2009
Alberta Arts Days at École John Wilson Elementary School
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WINTER 2009
ASA Previews Planet Earth and Imagined Texts
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FALL 2008
Visiting Artists Doug Haslam and Brent Laycock
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SPRING 2008
Artist Trading Cards at AE Bowers Elementary School
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WINTER 2008
Student Mandalas at Banff Elementary
School
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TREX CHATTER
"We had a lot of fun with Horse Power and the Sonora Carver
photograph. I bought her memoirs (A Girl and Five Brave Horses) -
which some of the girls are avidly reading, and a very cool book on
women daredevils that has a nice entry on her. Then, during
recesses this past week we watched the film that Disney made
of her life story, (Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken). The kids were
very gripped by her story. One thing that I was able to point
out to those kids who were freaked out that this was somehow
cruel for the horse, was that in the photograph, the horse's ears
are decidedly perked up and pointed forward - a certain indicator
that the horse is having as much fun as the rider. It was a great
teaching moment on the importance of careful observation and
reading the photograph. The grade one/two class tried their hand at
printmaking in the Helen Mackie style. It has been fabulous!"
Colleen Jantzen is the library facilitator at the Cayley
School.
