Visual arts teacher Amie Rogers has been encouraging her students to maintain a daily practice of exploring. Prompts have included drawing for five minutes without picking up the pen, arranging objects by color or pattern, and taking a favorite walk and observing along the way. They have visited and evaluated virtual exhibits from museums around the world, and have used drawing, painting, journaling, photography, video, and hand-building with clay to process their stay-at-home experience. Visual Arts co-chair Elise Sonnier, '98, asked her students to keep visual journals throughout distance learning to process what's happening, imagine the what-ifs, document, reflect, unplug, and express. The journals include writing, poetry, sketches, and collaged elements in a combination of diary and art. Find more examples from their upper school students on ESA's Facebook page and Instagram.
Episcopal School of Acadiana is a private coeducational day school for students in grades PK3 through 12. Our mission is to instill in every student the habits of scholarship and honor.