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Teens Collaborate to Create Unique Wall Art

This spring, students at four different Arlington Community Centers designed and built pieces of a new sculpture for the Teen area at the Shirlington Branch Library.

Each group worked separately, without knowing what their peers were working on.

Yet when the letters were installed  together for the first time at Shirlington, they formed a fantastic whole! See more photos on flickr.

 

Everyone at Shirlington is delighted by the hard work and devoted artistic efforts of the students at the Gunston Community Center, the Langston-Brown Community Center, the Lubber Run Community Center and the Walter Reed Community Center.

Thank you!

 

 

May 15, 2012 by Web Editor

Filed Under: News

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  1. jose ortez says

    May 31, 2012 at 4:51 PM

    i help with the letters

  2. Kenneth James says

    May 31, 2012 at 4:55 PM

    Great Job teens looks wonderful as a whole Lubber Run Rocks Baby !!!!

  3. Ms. Joyce Harris says

    May 31, 2012 at 4:58 PM

    The library news is always informative. Events are unique and exciting.

  4. Taralynn Bateman says

    May 31, 2012 at 5:00 PM

    <3 Amazing

  5. Tatiana says

    May 31, 2012 at 5:02 PM

    Walter Reed Madw the first E because where awsome like that Woahhh!!:))

  6. Alayna says

    May 31, 2012 at 5:03 PM

    The project looks very nice. It came together nicely.

  7. London Hall says

    May 31, 2012 at 5:03 PM

    The exhibit in the library really represents the teens in Arlington. I like the idea for the “T” because it represents teens and also the two “E’s” they are very creative. I contributed to the first “E” by bringing in labels and drawing the “Urban Dreams”!

  8. Ashley Jones says

    May 31, 2012 at 5:05 PM

    Nice!

    #YOLO

  9. Mattie Diarra says

    May 31, 2012 at 5:07 PM

    I think that this project was great. The reason for this is because of each center that helped put thought and effort into it that made this project work. It was a little bit hard but gradually we finished and the work paid off.And for that I am appreciated and proud to be apart of this project.

  10. Jennifer Droblyen says

    May 31, 2012 at 5:08 PM

    As the art facilitator of this project, I am so impressed and amazed at the project in its completion. The four groups of kids worked very hard to plan, build and decorate the five large paper mache letters. The group at Lubber Run began the project by taking cardboard boxes, shaping them into letters and then adhering paper mache to them to make them rigid. After the letters were built, they took two letters (an E and N) and the rest went to different centers (T to Gunston, E to Walter Reed, and S to Langston). Each group then considered themes that represent what interest them the most and what they want to express about teens today. The T represents technology, E represents urban dreams, the third E represents sports, the N represents a maze, and the S represents a slithery snake. All of the centers worked individually and did not collaborate on a general theme- so the results are quite astonishing. I am extremely proud of the hard work and time that the kids put in to bring this project to fruition, and believe this is a wonderful cross section of expression from the kids across Arlington County.

  11. Amory says

    May 31, 2012 at 5:09 PM

    Well I put the earrings on it and i also put labels for clothes on it to show what we wear and what types of accessories we wear !!!!!!!!!

  12. MAlik Anderson says

    May 31, 2012 at 5:11 PM

    I HELPED CONSTRUCT THE LETTERS.

  13. jasmine connor says

    May 31, 2012 at 5:14 PM

    i loved doing the paper mache on the letters i also loved making the soccer players out of clay.and i also loved painting the letters to. i just had so much fun making the letters and i also like all the grate ideas we did for the letters i had fun doing all this with Mrs.Joyce and the other Tenn members

  14. Angie Leon says

    May 31, 2012 at 5:15 PM

    We worked really hard on this, it looks great!!!

  15. stephanie b.larios says

    May 31, 2012 at 5:15 PM

    I think that the papermache look’s wonderful and terrific. One of the letter’s that I like is letter S because it look’s like a snake and snake’s is one of my favorite animals and also it took allot of work to do that letter and that’s the first letter of my name . My other favorite letter is the second E because that letter is based on soccer and is one of my favorite sport’s and my bother play’s soccer too and it also is the last letter of my name.

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