We have a large group of amazing artists showing pieces at the David Brower Center in Berkeley! All artwork addresses environmental concerns such as endangered plants and animals, and encourage visitors to protect our wild spaces. You can learn more about the Art/Act: Youth - WILD PLACES Project on the David Brower website. This is…
Continue reading ➞ Art/Act: Youth – WILD PLACES Student Art Show
Students in the VPA Chemistry course concluded a project about wildfires this week. For the past 6 weeks, they had been studying the questions, "How are wildfires a part of California's natural ecology, and what can we do to prevent them?" They designed experiments, learned about what makes a community vulnerable to wildfires, and learned…
Continue reading ➞ VPA Chemistry Students Conclude Wildfire Project
In the spring of 2019, 10th graders worked with Civic Design Studio and Akonadi Foundation to create a poster campaign to showcase the student experience of Oakland, titled Oakland is Home. Posters were hung on 9th and Broadway for four months. MidPen, an affordable housing non-profit firm, took notice and purchased the artwork of 11th…
On Thursday, December 19, Skyline's Professional Drama students will perform Lockdown: Await Further Instructions, a timely play co-written by teenagers in New York City and Oakland that reminds us about just how vulnerable schools are to gun violence and how vulnerable teens are to acute stress in their daily lives. The play takes us into…
Continue reading ➞ "Lockdown: Await Further Instructions" directed by Ms. Awele
On Monday, December 2nd, 10th grade Intro to Visual and Commercial Art students attended a field trip to the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisico. Students worked in groups and learned how to create short, stop motion animated films using the mult-plane method, which is a plexiglass box that allows for foreground, middleground and…
Continue reading ➞ Work Based Learning Field Trip to the Walt Disney Family Museum!
