by Jennifer | Apr 13, 2017
Created by Clear Spring High School, Clear Spring, MD
Artists: Zoe and Emily
Title: Underground Quilt
Teacher: Mr. Edwards
Theme: Freedom
Materials and techniques: We made a quilt out of fabric.
Did you enjoy this project? Yes.
About: Our artwork is resembling Underground Railroad tracks. The Underground Railroad track is the way the U.S. slaves escaped, citizens used special symbols to give messages to the slaves and lead them away. The symbols on ours quilt are the North Star, which means to go North, the flying geese was used to guide the way to water or resting places, the bear paw means to walk out of view and follow actual bear paws, because they lead to water, the last one, the cross roads referred to Cleveland, Ohio which was the center of the railroad tracks.
by Jennifer | Apr 13, 2017
Created by Clear Spring High School, Clear Spring, MD
Artists: Hannah and Amanda
Title: Virginia C. 1892
Teacher: Mr. Edwards
Theme: Freedom
Materials and techniques: We used acrylic paint in our project.
Did you enjoy this project? Yes, it was very fun to do this project. It helped show our creativity based on an important event in history and I learned a lot in doing this project.
About: This artwork is about Virginia in 1892.
by Jennifer | Apr 13, 2017
Created by Clear Spring High School, Clear Spring, MD
Artists: Hannah, Nick, Theodore, Mariyah
Title: Harpers Ferry: Slavery
Teacher: Mr. Edwards
Theme: Freedom
Materials and techniques: Acrylic paint.
Did you enjoy this project? My group did enjoy working on this project.
About: It is about the Harpers Ferry civil war in 1862.
by Jennifer | Apr 13, 2017
Created by Clear Spring High School, Clear Spring, MD
Artists: Elizabeth and Hannah
Title: Shattered
Teacher: Mr. Edwards
Theme: Education
Materials and techniques: Brush strokes, acrylic, and butt-end of brush.
Did you enjoy this project? Yes.
About: Our artwork is about the way that education can affect our freedom.
by Jennifer | Apr 13, 2017
Created by Clear Spring High School, Clear Spring, MD
Artists: Brandi and Alison
Title: Rising Above
Teacher: Mr. Edwards
Theme: Freedom
Materials and techniques: Our process involved painting the entire canvas white so that we could add watercolor to it later. Our goal was to be able to lay down water color in a way that when we blew on it, it spread. The phoenix wings and head were painted in black paints and the chains/ words in Sharpie marker.
Did you enjoy this project? It was a struggle and took much time to come up with a concept that we all liked. But once we got going we had fun and love the end product.
About: Our theme revolved around the idea that of breaking from the shackles that once held slaves back. The phoenix is a representation of those who were oppressed rising up and spreading their wings to become something new. We chose to use the reds, oranges, and yellows behind the phoenix as a way to express its power and even new found strength. We then decided to add the poem “From Shackles to Scholars” so that viewers could understand the struggle behind slavery.
