SOWING THE SEEDS OF CHANGE~ AN ANTHOLOGY OF POEMS & ILLUSTRATIONS
BY THE STUDENTS OF BEDFORD ACADEMY Sponsored by The Center for Black Literature 2010
PS 195 Manhattan Beach Brooklyn ~ Relief Sculpture / Self Portraits 2010
BAC CASA Grades 2-5 at PS 195 Manhatten Beach Brooklyn
PS 97 Brooklyn Arts Council CASA~ Big Book "An Urban Fairytale" 2010
PS 377~ OJJ BAC Museum In A School 2010
The First New Yorkers~The Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy
Selected Students Works ~ Catalog design Copyright Pamella Allen 2010
Message in the Mandala 2009-2010 Selected Students Works
Message in the Mandala ~A modern appropriation of an ancient practice.
It is said by Tibetan Buddhists that a mandala consists of five "excellencies":
The teacher • The message • The audience • The site • The time
The word "mandala" is from the classical Indian language of Sanskrit. Loosely translated to mean "circle”.
In this series of workshops, student artists created an original acrylic and mixed media painting by appropriating the Hindu, Native American and Buddhist art of creating a Mandala as means of actualization and communication. The students were encouraged to incorporate archetypal images, artifacts and words from their lives into basic geometric shapes to form the structure of the mandala to convey their own unique message to the world. Through their creative process and with their completed works, each student becomes a teacher, a messenger & an activist.
“Carl Jung said that a mandala symbolizes "a safe refuge of inner reconciliation and wholeness.
" It is "a synthesis of distinctive elements in a unified scheme representing the basic nature of existence."
Jung used the mandala for his own personal growth and wrote about his experiences.”
In sharing the process that I am enlisting in my own studio work, I wanted to expose the students to a wholelistic, creative and self-driven way to find and use their own unique voice, and to a process for healing after trauma and maintaining balance in daily life. Pamella Allen ~ 2010
It is said by Tibetan Buddhists that a mandala consists of five "excellencies":
The teacher • The message • The audience • The site • The time
The word "mandala" is from the classical Indian language of Sanskrit. Loosely translated to mean "circle”.
In this series of workshops, student artists created an original acrylic and mixed media painting by appropriating the Hindu, Native American and Buddhist art of creating a Mandala as means of actualization and communication. The students were encouraged to incorporate archetypal images, artifacts and words from their lives into basic geometric shapes to form the structure of the mandala to convey their own unique message to the world. Through their creative process and with their completed works, each student becomes a teacher, a messenger & an activist.
“Carl Jung said that a mandala symbolizes "a safe refuge of inner reconciliation and wholeness.
" It is "a synthesis of distinctive elements in a unified scheme representing the basic nature of existence."
Jung used the mandala for his own personal growth and wrote about his experiences.”
In sharing the process that I am enlisting in my own studio work, I wanted to expose the students to a wholelistic, creative and self-driven way to find and use their own unique voice, and to a process for healing after trauma and maintaining balance in daily life. Pamella Allen ~ 2010
Black Artist as Activist Publication ~ Message on the Mandala
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A selection of my students works from New Delhi to New York 2006~2009
