"In Sickness and in Health" exhibition
An introduction to "In Sickness and in Health"
The project that my team used for our exhibition was entirely focused on better understanding of, what our teachers called, our health destiny. That is to say, what our health looks like, could look like and how we have the ability to change it for the better if we want to. Throughout the project, we did research, made movies, painted paintings and learned a lot. Here is where you can see more about our project and experiences.
Unfortunately, I was not able to be there for exhibition. So here is what I was part of. (Some of the pictures are from exhibition).
The project that my team used for our exhibition was entirely focused on better understanding of, what our teachers called, our health destiny. That is to say, what our health looks like, could look like and how we have the ability to change it for the better if we want to. Throughout the project, we did research, made movies, painted paintings and learned a lot. Here is where you can see more about our project and experiences.
Unfortunately, I was not able to be there for exhibition. So here is what I was part of. (Some of the pictures are from exhibition).
Below I have all of the typed documents for this project. The first is my weekly reflections and a summary for my health plan from biology.
The second is my notes from my interview with Francis McMahon, an MD who works for the NIMH or National Institute of Mental Health. The third is a group paper written by my group and I about our research concerning neurological disease. The Forth is the four final one page descriptions of each disease used for exhibition.(Those four are all on the same page.) The fifth is my "Pieces of Me" art piece. The final one is the explanation of my creative commission piece. Oral History Long Version |
Take a "Virtual Tour" of our exhibition
Outside in the 11th grade commons:
Our class had the oppurtunity to use the 11th grade commons for part of our exhibition. In this space, we displayed our KIL posters or "Knowledge is Life posters.' which were incredibly large posters inspired by the 1920's that displayed information on healthcare reform. Aslo in the commons, we had our students docents who would lead guests through the exhibition as guides. Dr. Patton's humanities class: This was the first room you entered and when you did, the room was split into four sections with a table in the center. This table was a display for our oral history videos. With four monitores, there was one monitor for each disease group's related oral history videos. Each corner of the room was given to each desease group and in each corner, you could find out information about the disease, view different inspired artwork and read through the health plans of people who studied that diseases. he conner closest to the door was the diabetes corner. In each corner, you could find out information about the disease, view. The next corner was for neurological disease. The third was for cardiovascular disease and the last before you could change rooms was the cancer group. Mr. Leader's biology class: This was the second and last room of my teams exhibition. When you entered on the wall to your left was our individual life maps. These are records of our past health on a 1-10 scale and our projected health for the future. The center of the room was a set of tables that held our sheet brain dissection mounts and our fetal pig dissection mounts. At the end of these center tables, we were having a live fetal pig dissection that was done throughout the two hours of exhibition. This was filmed on a doc camera, and shown on a computer near the dissection. Along each wall were the creative commissions and the one large scale creative commission for each disease. In addition to our drawing and paintings were our scientist interviews, which is where we got our creative commission ideas from. Going in the direction of the flow of exhibition, the wall closest to the entrance fro Dr. Patton's room, was the neurological disease section. The next section, along the white board cabinet, was the cancer group. Then along the section of the wall with the shelves, we had the cardiovascular group. Finally, nearest to the door, we had the diabetes group. That was the end of our exhibition, but the gal was to direct people from our exhibition into the other teams exhibition. Specifically into the other biology classroom. Oral History Short version |
Reflection
For this exhibition, I was placed on the art and design team. This means that I was working mostly on the visual and aesthetic aspects of our exhibition. Specifically how the humanities room, Dr. Patton's classroom, would look on exhibition night. In this room, we had to display the oral history videos, all the disease group art pieces and one page descriptions and some of our "Pieces of Me" art pieces. It took us a few days, but we finally settled on a set up. We hung most of the art pieces on the wall and from hooks nailed in over the white boards, but some were hung on square "pillars" scattered through the room. Each corner of the room was given to a disease group, diabetes, neurological, cardiovascular and cancer.
There isn't really a single moment that sums up exhibition (prep) for me. But the closest to a defining moment would probably be the day before exhibition where I toured around a student as a run through for the "docent" job. I basically just explained the entire exhibition. I got to talk about my large scale piece creative commission that I painted, our disease group projects, the pieces of me paintings, our oral history videos and also the pig/brain dissections that we did. This was something that I was pretty proud of myself for doing. I have trouble talking to people during exhibition, but this run through made me feel more confident in my knowledge of our work.
I was also really proud of myself for finishing my large scale creative commission. It seems like a very simple piece, just being dots and lines, but because of this, I had to pay very close attention to detail to make it look clean and polished. About half way through, I really wanted to stop working on it because the repetitiveness of the painting was making me insane. But once I finished, I felt very good about the finished product.
This is something that I can defiantly use in the future. I really just need to push through when things are difficult and I will feel really good when I get it done. Other lessons that I learned from this project include that I don't need to change a lot in my life to make a difference to my health. Also that everyone has a life story that is worth listening to.
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to be at school for the night of exhibition, but I heard that it was fantastic.