I just realized I haven’t posted anything on here in a while.
Last February I started an art project with 7 and 8th graders at my local school. It’s also a community project, so I am working with the site of where the big Acadian flag is. If you are not familiar with my region, I live in Saint-Louis de Kent, in New-Brunswick. In the heart of “l’Acadie”.
I’m a very proud acadian.
Here in Saint-Louis, is where the Acadian flag was created. And we have a HUGE one ! Our municipality is getting a “monument de l’odyssée” to be placed here and a committee is working on developing a full site around this monument.
But that’s not my story today. Where I was going with this, is that my project with kids revolves around this futur site.
The first phase of the project, we re-created 3 old photos of the region in monochrome. Each student had one part of the picture to recreate. It was pretty challenging as blowing up each a part of those old pictures hugely pixalized them. But I was surprised with our results. Very cool stuff!
The old train that used to come to town
A farmer with a load of straw on a truck
The old wharf
The initial plan was not necessarily to put all three together to make the acadian flag. It was an after-thought. Acadian is rooted in our culture, always in the background no matter where we go. So it’s kinda neat to put them together. We painted that extra canvas yellow to wrap it together.
They are now working on their own individual paintings. Something, anything that represents this land and culture. Hopefully we can get this done and do a little vernissage to raise funds for the Acadian flag site.
Rocks. The title of this blog is rocks.
Out next phase is to paint on these massive rocks that are going to be part of the new landscape. What’s super cool is that these rocks are pieces that were saved from the old bridge that was crossing our river downtown.
Now I’m a bit nervous to be honest. Cause I have never really painted on rocks before but it can’t be all that different. Maybe? And I don’t really know what the students will paint on them yet.
We start next week. Wish us luck!
