Installation View. The Thousand and One Nights. There are times when unexpectedly an artist breaks away from a trend. Puerto Rico, an island with many creative minds but few institutional frameworks to support them, has been recently the site for works that either confront its ambiguous political situation, rather directly and simplistically, or limit themselves to trivial representations of tropical clichés and its derivative forms. It is precisely in these characteristics that this exhibition stands out. Currently an MFA candidate at the San Francisco Art Institute, Raquel Torres-Arzola, who has been working under the tutelage of her advisor artist Victor Vázquez, has put together a thought provoking and intelligent exhibition at AREA that addresses domestic as well as dogmatic power structures, but also posits sculpture as a formal and conceptual language of materials by which the intangible is materialized.[...]
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By: Mary Lee,
on 4/25/2012
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AREA, PERIMETER, VOLUME
Gardens and fences
and new tile floors,
towers of blocks
and a bulletin border.
Perimeter says "RIM"
and area is flat,
volume takes space...
I know all of that,
but keeping them straight
in my head is a problem:
square? cubic? units?
perimeter? area? volume?
Some day I'll grow up
and need carpet and tile,
frame art and fill boxes...
THEN this will be worthwhile!
© Mary Lee Hahn, 2012
Poem #25, National Poetry Month, 2012
Area and perimeter are SO hard for fourth graders to keep straight!
Cathy, at Merely Day By Day, is joining me in a poem a day this month. Other daily poem writers include Amy at The Poem Farm, Linda at TeacherDance, Donna at Mainely Write, Laura at Writing the World for Kids (daily haiku), Liz at Liz in Ink (daily haiku), Sara at Read Write Believe (daily haiku), Jone at Deo Writer (daily haiku)...and YOU?
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By: dawire,
on 6/19/2012
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By: Mary Lee,
on 4/25/2012
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AREA, PERIMETER, VOLUME
Gardens and fences
and new tile floors,
towers of blocks
and a bulletin border.
Perimeter says "RIM"
and area is flat,
volume takes space...
I know all of that,
but keeping them straight
in my head is a problem:
square? cubic? units?
perimeter? area? volume?
Some day I'll grow up
and need carpet and tile,
frame art and fill boxes...
THEN this will be worthwhile!
© Mary Lee Hahn, 2012
Poem #25, National Poetry Month, 2012
Area and perimeter are SO hard for fourth graders to keep straight!
Cathy, at Merely Day By Day, is joining me in a poem a day this month. Other daily poem writers include Amy at The Poem Farm, Linda at TeacherDance, Donna at Mainely Write, Laura at Writing the World for Kids (daily haiku), Liz at Liz in Ink (daily haiku), Sara at Read Write Believe (daily haiku), Jone at Deo Writer (daily haiku)...and YOU?
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By: dawire,
on 7/19/2011
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Hector Madera, Untitled, mixed media, 2009-2010 (Detail) AREA arrives to the metropolitan area of San Juan, Puerto Rico with a new space and an innovative program. METRO plataformaorganizada is José Hernández Castrodad's new initiative in San Juan that brings together a group of young and talented Puerto Rican artists based in Puerto Rico and abroad. METRO is a self-sustainable artist-run space to promote Puerto Rican artists locally and internationally through individual and group shows, curated projects and collaborations. Castrodad, an avid collector and art enthusiast highly respected by the local artistic community, already funds and supports AREA, an alternative art space and residency program in Caguas, Puerto Rico.[...]
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After teaching this all day, I REALLY appreciated this poem!
Kim
Finding JOY in 6th Grade
I'm really glad someone else's fourth graders are confused by perimeter and area. All year long, I have used the words "perimeter" and "area" in talking to kids about coming to our class meeting area, "sit on the perimeter" for share or class meeting, sit in the "area" for a mini-lesson or read aloud. I thought for sure they would understand it by now, but I just finished a math unit on perimeter and area and ummm, not so much…I thought it was just because I am a bad math teacher!
Clearly, you teach math, & keeping all these straight requires more than a ruler. Neat poem, Mary Lee that tells exactly how it is!