2021 DCPS Arts Experience
Visual Arts
For visual arts experience, teachers are encouraged to submit all work they wish to highlight at this end of year district exhibit. We will offer two formats for the student work to exhibit; 1. A city-wide arts website for all approved submissions, and 2. The interactive 3D virtual exhibit space. The 3D space will be limited in size capacity, so submissions that cannot fit into this platform will be offered on the website. Photographs, videos, and sound recordings are all welcome.
Elementary Visual Arts
Enchanted City Build Day DC
This event is in collaboration with the Hirshhorn Museum. Build Day is the culminating event for the elementary cornerstone, Enchanted City. Students will create study the design process, and then design and create buildings to reimagine our city.
K-5
Open Submissions
PK - 5
All Students
The end of year virtual exhibit space will have room for all teachers to submit great work form their students from throughout the 20-21 school year. These submissions can be of any art form medium, submitted to the link provided no later than April 30th, 2021. All approved submissions will go to the city-wide art website, however, capacity will prohibit the number of submissions for the 3D virtual exhibit.
Secondary Visual Arts
Emerging Artists
Working with a Hirshhorn Museum teacher artist, Emerging Artists is a group of 25+ high school students discovering the skills of creating a 3D animated space. The culminating project will be the 3D virtual exhibit space for our district-wide art events. Participating students will also receive elective credits to participate this program during the afterschool time.
This program has began. Please reach out to Lindsey.Vance@K12.dc.gov for more information.
9 - 12
6 - 8
A collaboration with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, EverydayDC is a digital visual literacy program in middle grades program that provides students with experience as a photojournalist and asks them to take control of their own narrative. The program culminates in a student-curated citywide virtual exhibition and is derived from the EverydayDC cornerstone curriculum for grades 6 through 8.
Everyday DC
Transform DC
9 - 12
A collaboration with local artist Patrick McDonough, Transform DC is a mural project where students work collaboratively to create small scale murals that are installed either at their base school and exhibited in the virtual end of year district event. The murals are a part of the Transform Cornerstone curriculum for grades 9 through 12.
Open Submissions
The end of year virtual exhibit space will have room for all teachers to submit great work form their students from throughout the 20-21 school year. These submissions can be of any art form medium, submitted to the link provided no later than April 30th, 2021. All approved submissions will go to the city-wide art website, however, capacity will prohibit the number of submissions for the 3D virtual exhibit.