Sentences with phrase «like bricolage»

She acknowledges that the coalition is dominated by schools like Bricolage, schools that embrace progressive teaching approaches that tend to rely much more on projects and much less on testing than traditional schools.

Potter points to the Blackstone Valley Prep schools in Rhode Island as an example of a program that has managed to create integrated schools while also embracing more structure than progressive schools like Bricolage, including uniforms, a longer school day and a strict discipline code.

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It is typical of Desplechin's eclecticism and openness to stylistic and narrative bricolage that this should take the form of a subtle appropriation of Japanese Noh theatre, from which he borrows the distinctive ornamental flute that permeates the score, as well as its precise formality (like most of Desplechin's films, La Sentinelle is broken into chapters, of which the first, «The Ghost», echoes the Noh repertoire's predilection for the supernatural).

Fueled by a confluence of interests among urban parents, progressive educators, and school reform refugees, a small but growing handful of diverse charter schools like Capital City has sprouted up in big cities over the past decade: others are High Tech High in San Diego; E. L. Haynes in Washington, D.C.; Larchmont Charter School and Citizens of the World Prep in Los Angeles; Summit in Northern California; the five - school Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) network; Community Roots, Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, page 33).

Bricolage will participate in the OneApp eventually, Densen said, but with other pressing tasks like finding a building and negotiating a final charter contract with the OPSB may take precedence over joining OneApp this winter.

«The work represents traditional painting, in the sense that each artist engages with painting's traditions, testing and ultimately reshaping historical strategies like appropriation and bricolage and reframing more metaphysical, high - stakes questions surrounding notions of originality, subjectivity, and spiritual transcendence,» states the museum.

Made mostly of clay, wire, bricolage, and lights, these maquette - like pieces read and reference as unusual types of puppets or Kachina dolls.

To work through issues of race, identity and community, Yashua Klos employs techniques like woodcutting and etching to produce innovative, large - scale collages, expansive figurative portraits of friends and fellow artists rendered in a quasi-cubist, bricolage style.

Some works are composed of enormous cast bronze blocks or massive wooden beams that suggest architectural elements, while others, hanging from the wall or ceiling and made of various pieces of wood conjoined with wires, nails, and screws, are delicate and light in their toy - like format — the seemingly spontaneous results of sculptural bricolage.

On Wed, July 6 at 7 pm, Cruz will perform How To Order A Chocolate Cake, in addition to performances by artists Jaamil Olawale Kosoko and David Thomson.To work through issues of race, identity and community, Yashua Klos employs techniques like woodcutting and etching to produce innovative, large - scale collages, expansive figurative portraits of friends and fellow artists rendered in a quasi-cubist, bricolage style.

Like many artists who work within the assemblage idiom, Saar brings both personal and collective history to bear on her bricolaged constructions.