Black Mountain College: Shaping Craft + Design Exhibition

A class of Logan River Academy students recently went to the beautiful Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art on the Utah State University campus.  The students were met by a guide who showed and explained the intricate art displays.  The first artwork was a permanent installation of 100 shoes hanging on wire cords from the ceiling.  The guide pushed a button and the shoes started making sounds. Soon, the students realized the shoes were making rhythmic music.  They were then shown and told the history of artwork from the Black Mountain College of Design through the exhibition ‘Shaping Craft + Design’. The displays included a double sided tree made out of wires which looked like a painting, vases and urns with intricate designs, knotted-like patterns, interesting designs from orange threads being sewn together, attractive and practical chairs and desks made from different kinds of rich materials, and very colorful 3-D sculptures that seemed to jump out at you.  The students also had the opportunity to show their own artist abilities with the watercolor pencils made available for their use. It was a great, enriching experience for the students to be exposed to so many different forms of art and be able to express themselves with their own art as well.

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A Student and Teacher Relationship

One of the many Logan River Academy students took several classes from one specific LRA teacher who started out with long brown hair with a touch of white.  Over time, the student watched as things began to change for this teacher. One day she noticed that the teacher showed up to work with a new hairdo, only to discover it was a wig. The teacher had shaved her head.   The student also watched as the teacher ate a snack between classes so that she would not vomit, as she was going through chemo treatments.  The student then watched as her teacher struggled with her thoughts as she battled chemo brain and the fatigue from radiation.  The student then turned to her teacher for ideas for a service project.  The student knew she wanted to do something for the Cancer Center and who would be better to learn from but that teacher.  The student, along with several girls, later went with her teacher to the Intermountain-Huntsman Cancer Center in Logan to deliver the blankets they had made for the patients to help them stay warm during their chemo treatments.   The teacher’s appreciation for the student grew stronger as she watched her (and the other girls) show kindness and care to others going through similar experiences in battling cancer.   It was a special experience for everyone involved.

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