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Stories from Benito Juarez Community Academy
Juan Hernandez & Benito Juarez High School
Project Overview
For the 2022-2023 school year, Juan Hernandez embarked on the “Movimiento” project, aiming to capture the essence of movement within Benito Juarez High School. Recognizing movement as a representation of changes in physical or emotional space, action, time, or freedom, Juan encourages students to create a set of photographs depicting various aspects of movement in the school environment—crowded hallways, slow-moving clocks, school sports, and changing views outside windows. These diverse snapshots will be mailed to Juan, who plans to paint select images, transforming them into artworks to be displayed strategically around the school, each chosen location reflecting varying degrees of movement. Juan’s interest lies in exploring how movement is interpreted across different artistic mediums, within physical spaces, and as fixed art.
Throughout the project, Juan envisions the school becoming a canvas for these artistic expressions, where even the subtlest movements, like shuffling in lines or the rush in hallways, take on a heightened significance. By intertwining photography and painting, Juan aims to create a dynamic representation of movement that engages both the senses and artistic interpretation.
Kioto Aoki & Benito Juarez High School
Project Overview
Kioto Aoki, Jan Tichy & Benito Juarez Community Academy
- Jose Zavala – Animate in Place
- Alonzo Ulloa – Animate in Place
- Citlaly Carranza – Animate in Place
- Elizabeth Arriaga – Animate in Place
- Marvin Lopez – Animate in Place
- Nilsy Baltazar – Animate in Place
- Karen Aragon – Animate in Place
- Zitaly Luvios – Animate in Place
- Quesalis Carranza – Animate in Place
- Sarai Arellano – Animate in Place
Project Overview
Animate in Place builds on previous years of collaboration between Benito Juarez Community Academy and CPS Lives, incorporating analogue photographic processes into creative projects, and this year introducing elements of moving image. Students from the IB digital arts course began by looking at various optical toys developed in the 19th century, which reflect humanity’s long standing fascination with suggestive movement and can be traced back to prehistoric cave paintings. Linking their photographic studies with these early moving image techniques, the students were tasked to create their own short narratives as stop motion animations from home, photographing on their smartphones to animate the space and objects around them. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the world has reached a moment of temporary stasis, with the home as its central axis. Thus students were encouraged to think about what it means to animate this space during the shelter-in-place measures, resulting in site-specific and situationally-specific narratives.
Jan Tichy, Kioto Aoki & Benito Juarez Community Academy
Project Overview
Places Under the Sun, 2018 Cyanotype on cotton, unique quilt, 66*36 inch
Following on the history of Chicago documentary projects that CPS Lives continues, students from the nearby Benito Juarez Community Academy were asked to make a snapshot of their place in the city, capturing with their smart phones cameras the world around their neighborhood, mostly Pilsen. Stacy Ciccone, IB digital art teacher at Benito Juarez Community Academy and Jan Tichy and Kioto Aoki have worked during the spring with two classes to include photography in the existing art program, introducing analog photographical processes into their digital photography. For the occasion of Bauhaus Centennial Kioto and Jan explored with CPS students the work of Nathan Lerner, the New Bauhaus Chicago artist and designer. The artists introduced the students to the work coming from the Chicago New Bauhaus, visiting AIC and seeing the origional work. Following the visit to AIC Photograpny colelction, the students build their own Lerner’s Light Boxes to experiment with light and space. Photographing with their own smart phone cameras and developing the images as cyanotypes, the students learned about digital and analog photography. The cyanotypes prints on cotton cloth allowed for the individual works to come together as one large quilt that decorates the halls of the school along the quilt from last year. In class the students processed the digital images they captured around their neighborhood into black and white negatives and printed on transparencies that later transferred as sun prints on cyanotype cloth. The quilt that they put together from these prints is a collaborative effort that reflects on some of the perspectives they see their neighborhoods through.
Suzette Bross & The Principal Project
Project Overview
Principal Project is an ongoing body of work within CPS Lives, a citywide non-profit arts organization where Chicago artists are paired with Chicago Public schools to share each school’s unique story. The photographic portraits of Chicago Public School Principals in their offices show what the leaders of public school look like today. The formal portraits of the Principals in their personal space show the dynamic range of character and personality of each individual. The way each Principal presents themselves in their portraits shows how they would like to project their leadership. Mementos and signage in their offices tell stories about the individual, what things are important to them and their ideas of leadership in their school community. By looking at the Principals using traditional documentary methods, I hope to change conceptual and cultural perceptions of what a leader of a public school looks like.
