HAIS Schools of the Future Conference IPA Student Showcase (Timelapse Mural Video!)

Aloha Everyone!

I am super excited to share my experience at the HAIS 2015 Schools of the Future Conference. This was my first conference as a participant and it turned out so well! I don't think things could have gone any smoother and my students from Island Pacific Academy did an amazing job!

Let me tell you a little about it!

About our project:

Title: It's Not About The Destination, It's The Journey!

Description:

Through the integration of physical art and technology see first hand how the process becomes the journey. Students will demonstrate the creation of an on-sight mural which, through technology help to create a time-lapse video. Visit with the students and teacher and see how learning accelerates and is internalized when your school community isn't focused just on the grades. 

About SOTF:

The annual Schools of the Future Conference is the largest professional development gathering of public and private K-12 educators in Hawaii and brings together teachers and administrators from Hawaii’s public, private, charter and parochial schools as they focus on how to best transform our existing schools and create new learning environments for the 21st Century.

This collaborative event is presented by the Hawaii Association of Independent Schools (HAIS), the Hawaii Department of Education (DOE) and the Hawaii Community Foundation in partnership with the Pillars of Peace Fund of the Hawai‘i Community Foundation and the Hawaii Society for Technology in Education to highlight the best practices that are taking place in our learning environments today and being planned for those of tomorrow.

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Here is the final timelapse video:

Pictures:

These pictures don't do justice to how many people were actually there, over 1,500 conference attendees! The largest attendance yet! The girls did an amazing job painting and thinking on their feet to answer everyone's questions! Fantastic job ladies!

Big Mahalo to Elizabeth, Rylyne and Jess!

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Mahalo for looking!

Boz Schurr

All work is copyright 2015 Boz Schurr. Please do not use without my permission. Mahalo!

"On the Spectrum (Korsakoff's Syndrome)"

Aloha Friends,

Back to screenprinting! I have been all over! Traveling, teaching and just adjusting back to life on the island after a long and wonderful summer. I am still working on getting my home studio set up and running BUT I just bought a screen, a scoop coater, emulsion and ink yesterday so I am very excited to see what happens! I just put on the first coat of emulsion on my brand spanking new screen and am waiting for it to dry. The sun is out and shining so it's a great time to expose a screen. I've got my design and I am ready to go! Check back later to see how some of my new designs turn out!

Until then please check out the latest in my On the Spectrum series. I am on letter K! This series is really coming along and I am really excited to start on the next print in my very own studio! Mahalo for looking!

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On the Spectrum is a 26 part print series, one for each letter of the alphabet, that explores interactions of mental illnesses, developmental disorders and perceived normalcy as abstract landscapes. Please read my artist statement for more details.

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Artist Statement: There is a strange disconnect between mental illness and normalcy – as if there is a stark dividing line between the two: Black and white, us and them, completely separate. I believe this arbitrary classification, ill, healthy, recovering... is very similar to how we catalog our colors: blue, red, green... The visible color spectrum reflects the human experience. An experience where colors cannot be contained as single, definable points. The spectrum is one band of ever shifting, transitioning hues, as are we – our lives and our experiences are continuous and overlapping, yet discreet.

We all exist in a world with other people. We interact daily with a wide range of personalities. It is not possible to limit your experience to “normal.” We are but one piece in the cosmos. No one exists in a vacuum. So instead of pushing past others whose mental or physical health might not reflect exactly our own, we must embrace.

We are made of many parts: our personalities, our bodies, and our world.

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On The Spectrum (Korsakoff's Syndrome)

2015

Screen Print on Paper

15" x 11" 

$100 (unframed)

Details:

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Characteristics:

Korsakoff's syndrome is a manifestation of Wernicke's encephalopathy, also called Wernicke´s disease. It happens in Wernicke's disease in almost all alcohol abusers and is rare among the other patients.This neurological disorder is caused by a lack of thiamine (vitamin B₁) in the brain, and is also added by neurotoxic effects of alcohol. 

There are six major symptoms of Korsakoff's syndrome:

1. anterograde amnesia
2. retrograde amnesia, severe memory loss
3. confabulation, that is, invented memories which are then taken as true due to gaps in memory sometimes associated with blackouts
4. minimal content in conversation
5. lack of insight
6. apathy - the patients lose interest in things quickly and generally appear indifferent to change.

Kolb, Bryan; Whishaw, Ian Q. (2003). Fundamentals of human neuropsychology. New York: Worth Publishers. p. 473. ISBN 978-0-7167-5300-1. OCLC 55617319

"What is Korsakoff’s syndrome?". Alzheimer's Society. October 2008

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Mahalo for looking!

Boz Schurr

All work is copyright 2015 Boz Schurr. Please do not use without my permission. Mahalo!