Murals – A Street Art Initiative
Public art has long been a platform for engaging the passerby. Its visibility by the masses makes is fertile ground for spreading the word. At AAS our street art initiative has forged an impossible alliance with our local Muscovite neighborhood. Where once stood an cement barrier bedecked with urban decay and unsighly squiggles of spray paint is now a hundreds meter long series of student designed and hand painted murals. And almost every time we work on these, now in our third year, a local will walk past and thank us for beautifying their daily walk, or congratulate us for our fine work.
This phenomenon of bridging the divide between the international school and the Russian public is actually caputured in the following drone footage of me narrating some of the mural wall. https://vimeo.com/301550764
IB Diploma Program, Senior Exhibition 1
This HL student explored the concept of deformity and built this exquisite body of work around this unifying thread. Over the course of two years she developed a signature style, very clean, linear and graphic, but also rich in meaning and very much alive. For this cohesive body of work she received the highest honor granted by the IBO, a perfect score of 7.
IB Diploma Program, Senior Exhibition 2
This HL student’s art work is a testament to her determination to provide evocative visual imagery as metaphor for the oppressive and destructive forces of social stigmata. This collection also received a 7, and is an excellent example of a student’s outrage at social injustice as the driving force behind her art.
The Studio
Although my philosophy of teaching art calls for academic rigor, including research and aesthetic discourse, both orally and in writing, the majority of the time spent in the art room students are involved in active, kinesthetic learning. These are junior IB Art students at work on their architectonic, clay slab scuptures. The assignment calls for building a structure as a visual metaphor for another form of artwork – a song, for example, or a book.
Reduction Printing, Lino Block 
Reduction style print 
Lino Block Reduction Print 
Pop Art Poster using Lino Block Prints 
Repoussé in Bronze 
Repoussé in Copper 
Repoussé in Silver