Collaborations
Learn through Service and Action
UW Milwaukee
- Reagan students visit the college to participate in critique with Kathryn Martin-Meurer .
- Kathryn visits Reagan for a follow-up critiques that:
- Enhance students’ understanding of the visual language of art and learn craftsmanship
- Gain communication skills to effectively discuss their artwork with audiences
- Understand how audiences and other artists may perceive their work
- Reflect upon their work to make clear connections to historical/contemporary art
- Workshop elevates IB portfolio to meet IB/Blooms Taxonomy highest standards
- Enhance students’ understanding of the visual language of art and learn craftsmanship
- Students also present a five minute student-created slideshow of their work, images from notebooks, quotes and other visuals representing their comprehensive learning
UWM Kenilworth Gallery Community Engaged Arts Initiative - a community art build led by UWM faculty and social activist artist Nicolas Lampert.
MIAD
- Reagan students visit the college to participate in critiques presented by multiple professors.
- College professors visit high school repeatedly for a mixed media project and follow-up critiques that:
- Enhance students’ understanding of the visual language of art and learn craftsmanship
- Workshop elevates IB portfolio to meet IB/Blooms Taxonomy highest standards
- Five minute student-created slideshow of their work, images from notebooks, quotes and other visuals representing their comprehensive learning
- Develop students' abilities to formulate arguments and defend positions relevant to today's culture in a historical and contemporary context for art and design
Cardinal Stritch University
- Steve Sellars presented his artwork at the Reagan Gallery
- Students critique, discuss process and inspiration
- Reagan students utilize the Northwestern Mutual Gallery at Stritch to showcase and critique their own body of work
- Introduced Steve Sellars and Tim Abler to the complex International Baccalaureate Fine Art Assessment Process
- Internal Exhibition Portfolio Assessment Process
- External Process Portfolio Assessment Process
- Provided insight to Steve Sellars and Tim Abler on the process of becoming IB Examiners
- Reagan students visit the Stritch campus for workshops in a multimedia platform on still life
- High school students receive college-level instruction on process/craftsmanship
- Workshop enhances the IB portfolio making it diverse in medium and experimentation
- College professors regularly visit high school campus to recruit students and participate in valuable critiques to:
- Develop art vocabulary, metaphors, craftsmanship, and historical links to students’ works of art
UW Stevens Point
- Reagan students visit the campus to partake in various workshops and exhibitions that:
- Expand the IB portfolio making it diverse in medium and experimentation
- Provide a venue for senior artwork in a college gallery setting
- Future plans for a semester long interactive project with Reagan juniors/seniors
- College tours, recruitment, and financial aid sessions with Reagan families
Other Community Collaborations
- Know Thyself
- A two-semester character development and creative expression program. Area artists, poets, writers, and photographers engage our students in the creative process. Students attend off-campus cultural events. The program culminates in a Museum of Self exhibition, displaying student artwork at an annual banquet.
- Voices of the Young
- A multimedia arts collaboration between Know Thyself, high school students, area artists, and writers. Students use visual, written, and spoken art to voice who they are and how they see the world. The project culminates in a public exhibit of students' work at metro area venues.
- Voices of Our Elders
- A companion project where students develop relationships with senior citizens by visiting retirement communities. The students give voice to an often overlooked generation with photographic portraits and oral history recordings of the seniors.
- Exhibition of both projects have appeared at the Wisconsin State Capitol Rotunda, Milwaukee City Hall, Milwaukee Miller Park, Milwaukee Public School’s Central Offices.
- “My Hometown”
- Reagan students helped create a 21st century portrait of America for The New York Times by photographing their neighborhoods, families, friends and school
- The collection of photographs are part of an interactive gallery of several thousand pictures sorted by geography or theme.
- The New York Times highlights images in posts on the Lens Blog
- Photographs archived at the Library of Congress
- Milwaukee Art Museum – Satellite Program
- UW Milwaukee – ArtsECO
- ArtMail Milwaukee - on-line gallery showcasing student work with Milwaukee’s finest artists
- KohlsCares Volunteers – assist in annual gallery exhibition on Reagan school campus
- Artist and Display – consistent donors to support financially challenged art students
- Arts At Large – multiple venues for student art displays
- Lakefront Festival of the Arts 2012, 2013, 2014
- Art in Bloom 2011
- Bastille Days 2012
- Mexican Fiesta 2013
- Spin Milwaukee (2014) – student art displays during the Historic Third Ward Gallery Night