Not exact matches
The
Culture component of the residency aims to
elevate the level of growth and professional
practice across the school, engaging residents and non-residents alike, including support staff and administrators.
Her work primarily focuses on building healthy school
cultures, developing systems of grading and assessment, and aligning curriculum and instructional
practices to
elevate teacher
practice and enhance student achievement.
Some of the artists mine popular
culture to produce scathing or defamatory indictments of consumer mores; others take the moral corruptions of public and political acts as their defamed subject; and others
practice détournement — using elements of well - known media to create new work with a different or opposing message — to
elevate injury and injustice into the realm of high art.
Painters like Karen Kilimnik made work stemming from the influence of popular
culture, creating cursory celebrity portraits, while Elizabeth Peyton took the
practice a step further by painting portraits of celebs, musicians, and European monarchs alongside her significant others and members of her social circle, entrenching mass
culture's idolization of celebrity in the realm of fine art while at the same time
elevating her friends to celebrity status.