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HUMANS, WILDLIFE , AND THE HABITATS WE SHARE

YEAR 2July 2014 through

June 2015

WILDLIFE

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T H E G E O G R A P H Y O F W E I S YO U R S T O R Y, A S A

C A L D E R A S T U D E N T, S H O W N T H R O U G H YO U R B O L D

C R E AT I V I T Y, I M A G I N AT I O N , A N D I N D I V I D U A L V O I C E .

T H R O U G H YO U R A R T W O R K , YO U C O M M U N I C AT E YO U R

P E R S O N A L S T O R I E S A N D C O N N E C T I O N S T O C A L D E R A ,

YO U R C O M M U N I T I E S , S C H O O L S , A N D FA M I L I E S .

Supported by:

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Each year, the Geography of We is focused on one of seven environmental themes.

Adding to last year’s land theme, projects this year focused on a new theme: wildlife.

With the support of our mentors, teaching artists, program partners, and volunteers,

you journeyed through many art forms to create the layers of artwork that make up

The Geography of We: Humans, Wildlife, and the Habitats We Share.

We invite you to share your Caldera experiences with friends and family so they too

can explore their creativity. By working through this workbook and the corresponding

web pages at www.CalderaArts.org/GoW, we hope you continue to:

• explore your own creativity through discussion questions and activity prompts,

• interact and engage with artwork created over the past year,

• collaborate, connect, and share Caldera with your peers, families, and communities.

CALDERA WOULD LOVE TO SEE WHERE CREATIV ITY TAKES YOU!

Share work created from these activities (with #CalderaGoW)

via our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/CalderaArts.org,

on Twitter at @CalderaArts, or by email at Caldera@CalderaArts.org.

Have fun navigating through the Geography of We!

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PORTLAND

1. Invented Intersections (Portland Art Museum)2. Legitimate Voices (SEI Academy)

3. Wildlife Wood Cookies (Caldera’s Portland Arts Partner middle schools)

Follow along with these projects (and more) at www.CalderaArts.org/G oW/Portland .

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Take a paper bag or large piece of paper. Cut it into pieces then sit in a local park or another place you love with friends or family. What animals do you see? What animals do you imagine living there? Ask each person to draw one animal on the

individual pieces you cut out. Gather all the pieces and tape them together for a collaborative imagined map of the place you love.

INVENTED INTERSECTIONS

DRAWING WITH ANDY MYERS, Teaching Artist and 2013 Artist in Residence,and M ICHAEL BOONSTRA, Teaching Artist and 2005 Artist in Residence

Spring “Mini-Camp” Weekend Intensive at Portland Art Museum

During this Weekend Intensive, students imagined and worked as a team to create both individual drawings and a large collaborative drawing about wild creatures. Students talked with the teaching artists and each other about the

wildlife they saw or imagined and about how that wildlife might live at our Arts Center on Blue Lake.

BE INSPIRED

Imagine a place you love and the animals that live there. Is this a landscape of forests, fields, oceans, or deserts? Where do the animals of the place you love nest, build dens, or burrow? What do they eat in that landscape? Talk with family and friends to share

all you know about this landscape. Take a look at the Caldera student drawings on the GoW website to help stimulate your creativity.

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CREATE

Write a poem about what your name means. It can be imagined, and it’s all subject to your own interpretation. What do you want people to think when they hear your name? What is the history of your name? What sounds,

smells, images, textures, and tastes go with your name? Does your name evoke specific emotions?

LEGIT IMATE VOICES

POETRY With PATRICIA SMITH Teaching Artist

In-School Residency at SEI Academy and Special Performance at Wieden+Kennedy Atrium

Award-winning poet and spoken-word artist Patricia Smith worked with students at SEI Academy for a weeklong In-School Residency. Students were prompted to write poetry based on their own culture and background. Patricia

Smith emphasized the importance of the students telling their own stories in whatever ways they wanted to.

BE INSPIRED

Has someone in your life inspired you to share your voice? How have they affected who you are? Watch the video of Patricia and Caldera students on the GoW website to help stimulate your creativity.

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Find a rock or a piece of wood. Using paint and found objects, turn that piece of nature into the animal that you identify with the most. Find a friend or family member to share

your painting with, and ask them what animal might represent their personality or experiences.

WILDLIFE WOOD COOKIES

PAINTING WITH KEVIN BALL , Portland Middle School Mentor,and ROBERTA STONE, Teaching Artist

Mentoring classes at Caldera’s Portland Arts Partner middle schools

At the beginning of the school year, in honor of the wildlife theme, Caldera students picked animals that represented them or that they could connect to in some way. At camp we use small wood “cookies” as name tags,

which created a connection for students to use large wood cookies as a canvas to paint these animals.

BE INSPIRED

What are some ways that you connect with your wild side? What animals have similar traits or personality characteristics? Take a look at the Caldera student paintings on the GoW website to help stimulate your creativity.

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CAMP CALDERA

CAMP CALDERA

1. Exploring Nature (Annex)2. Animal Projections (Studio B)

3. The Man Who Dreamed of Elk-Dogs (Meadow)

Follow along with these projects (and more) at www.CalderaArts.org/G oW/CampCaldera.

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CREATE

Find an object in nature. Using that object, create a stencil or rubbing. Trace your newly created design onto the inside of a cereal box. With paint and other drawing

instruments, use that shape as the main design to create a card.

EXPLORING NATURE

PRINTMAKING WITH KATHERINE SPINELLA Teaching Artist

Immersion I in Annex

Students explored their relationship to nature and wildlife through various printmaking techniques including relief printing, Japanese woodblock, non-photo-emulsion stencil screen printing, and monotypes.

Using the landscape and wildlife at our Arts Center as an influence, students created original designs.

BE INSPIRED

Search the internet for “Japanese woodblock prints,” “relief prints,” and “monoprints” and explore how these techniques are used by other artists. What kind of natural objects, such as rocks, leaves, or flowers, exist around where you live? How could those

objects become part of a design? Take a look at the Caldera student designs on the GoW website to help stimulate your creativity.

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Print out a photo of yourself on regular paper. Using markers, pens, pencils, or paint, add physical features from the animal you most identify with to the photo of yourself.

ANIMAL PROJECTIONS

PHOTOGRAPHY WITH JESSICA AND GARY SWEETTeaching Artists

Immersion I in Studio B

In this project, students explored how they identify with certain animals. Using different media to show various aspects of their animals, students expressed their identity and created self-portraits by projecting an animal image over their faces.

BE INSPIRED

What wild animal do you identify with most? What physical traits, like body shape or coloring, distinguish this animal from others? Take a look at the Caldera student portraits on the GoW website to help stimulate your creativity.

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CREATE

Taking inspiration from your own family’s stories or culture, create a collage, incorporating drawings, photos, and words in the fashion of the projects on our website.

THE MAN WHO DREAMED OF ELK-DOGS

PHOTOGRAPHY WITH JULIE KEEFETeaching Artist and 2014 Artist in Residence

Discovery in the Meadow

Students learned the basics of digital SLR photography with a special emphasis on the landscape and geography of Caldera. They interpreted a story from the Blackfoot tribe, The Man Who Dreamed of Elk-Dogs & Other Stories from the Tipi by Paul Goble, and created

a personal photographic montage/collage, incorporating text, drawings, or stencils of animals into the personal landscapes they created.

BE INSPIRED

Visit a library and find the book The Man Who Dreamed of Elk-Dogs & Other Stories from the Tipi by Paul Goble. Read it with a friend or family member. Take a look at the Caldera student collages on the GoW website to help stimulate your creativity.

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CAMP CALDERA

CENTRAL OREGON

1. The Animal I Am (Caldera’s Central Oregon Arts Partner middle schools)2. Comparative Anatomy: Animals and Us (Terrebonne Community School and Elton Gregory Middle School)

3. Wild Word Collage (Atelier 6000)

Follow along with these projects (and more) at www.CalderaArts.org/G oW/CentralO regon .

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Pick an animal and then look online for a mask outline, or try drawing your own.

Cut it out and decorate the mask with different textures and colors.

THE ANIMAL I AM

3-D PAPER SCULPTURE MASKS WITH AMY BURTELOWCentral O regon Middle School Mentor

Mentoring classes at Caldera’s Central Oregon Arts Partner middle schools

Students chose animals they most closely identified with and made three-dimensional paper sculpture masks of those animals. They decorated the masks, posed as their chosen animal while wearing them, and took

portrait photos of one another. Students also wrote imaginative stories about life as their animal.

BE INSPIRED

If you could be any animal, which would you be and why? How would your life be different living as that animal? Take a look at the Caldera student portraits and read the stories on the GoW website to help stimulate your creativity.

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Imagine yourself with adaptations that you admire or find interesting. Using pens, markers, pencils, or crayons, draw a picture of yourself with your new adaptation.

COMPARATIVE ANATOMY: ANIMALS AND US

BRAIN ANATOMY & DRAWING WITH JEFF LEAKETeaching Artist and 2012/2015 Artist in Residence, and NW NOGGIN, Partner O rganization

In-School Residencies at Terrebonne Community School in Terrebonne and Elton Gregory Middle School in Redmond

During these In-School Residencies with Jeff Leake, students created collaborative wildlife drawings. After examining real brains (both animal and human), students developed and drew animals they invented with

specific adaptations related to their brain structure, how they survive, and their environments.

BE INSPIRED

Organisms sometimes adapt to and with other organisms. This is called coadaptation. Research online and read about adaptations. What are some animal adaptations that you think are interesting? What is an adaptation you wish you had in

your own life? Take a look at the Caldera student drawings on the GoW website to help stimulate your creativity.

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From each of the books you found, pick five different sentences or phrases that are interesting to you. Put them together into a poem format. Edit as you wish and write it out using large lettering and

any colors you want. Experiment with taking photos of your poem in different places, outside and inside.

WILD WORD COLLAGE

POETRY & PHOTOGRAPHY WITH JESSICA ARMSTRONG, Central O regon High School Mentor,and EL IZABETH QUINN, Creative Director

High School Saturday Workshop at Atelier 6000 in Bend

Students created collage poems and worked on creative photography. Students picked out lines from different books and combined them together to create new poems that they wrote out and photographed.

BE INSPIRED

In your home, school, or local library, find books, magazines, and literature that connect with wildlife and nature. Take a look at the Caldera student poems and photographs on the GoW website to help stimulate your creativity.

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DID EXPLORING THIS BOOKLET INSPIRE YOU TO CREATE SOMETHING?

We would love for you to share your art with us (#CalderaGoW)

via our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/CalderaArts.org,

on Twitter at @CalderaArts, or by email at Caldera@CalderaArts.org.

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ABOUT CALDERA

Caldera is a catalyst for the transformation of underserved youth

through innovative, year-round art and environmental programs.

Caldera weaves the arts, nature, and personal expression into powerful work that allows

young people to be creative change agents in their own lives and communities. We begin

mentoring students in sixth grade and commit to staying involved in their lives for at least

seven years, so that they experience consistent, long-term adult support and guidance.

Through our Arts Partner middle schools in Central Oregon and Portland, we mentor

youth every week during the school year, in the summer at our arts and nature

camp, and through weekend workshops with our high school students. We provide a

supportive, loving community and use positive youth development practices that help

them develop personal goals, social skills, and a constructive attitude toward learning.

www.CalderaArts.org

503.937.3061

Portland Office:

224 NW 13th Ave., Suite 304

Portland, Oregon 97209

Arts Center:

31500 Blue Lake Drive

Sisters, Oregon 97759