For Hisar students, arts and active learning are essential parts of school life, and with a generous donation from our trustee and board member Mr.Sinan Uzan, an art-lover our students had the opportunity to meet and work with three mural artists from different countries as they transferred the amphitheater and various walls of Hisar school into pieces of art.
Photo: Defne G. ’19
Approximately 335 students from 5th grade to 12th grade participated in this project, unprecedented in Turkey. The project organized by Warren Band production, one of the most important curators of mural art and the founder of Los Angeles based Branded Arts which produced over 350 mural projects around the world included three world famous mural artists coming to Turkey for the first time and painting their original designs for Hisar School.
With this project Hisar students, who had taken initiative and painted various walls of the school in the past, showed examples of active learning by organizing production, logistics, photography, video and PR teams.
Photo: Defne G. ’19
Photo: Kuzey Ç. ’22
Interviews: Selin Ö. ’19 and Sena K. ’19
Iker Muro (@murOne), joining the project from Spain, chose the school’s amphitheatre to paint. The source of inspiration for Muro’s design is Istanbul’s Bosphorus and sun. When you look at the painting from one specific point you can see all the lines as straight. At a busy pace and with the help of Hisar School Advanced Placement students, Muro completed his art work within three days.
The second artist who participated in the project; Teo (@moneyless1980) is from Italy. He worked with Hisar students on the art work he designed with geometric patterns. He remarked that he hoped the interaction students would further inspire their interest in art.
Photo: Kuzey Ç. ’22
Photf: Kuzey Ç. ’22
Photo: Kuzey Ç. ’22
Photo: Kuzey Ç. ’22
Photo: Kuzey Ç. ’22
Photo: Kuzey Ç. ’22
Photo: Kuzey Ç. ’22
Photo: Kuzey Ç. ’22
Photo: Kuzey Ç. ’22
Ukranian artist Aleksei (@aec_interesnikazki) is known for his fairy tale illustration visual narrative, and in his authentic figurative drawing which stretched out to two walls he expressed that a tree which feeds from books and grows with books shapes the future. Hisar 5th and 6th grade students joined his “My Dream Tree and its Story” workshop and they developed their own interpretations.
Photo: Kuzey Ç. ’22
Photo: Kuzey Ç. ’22
Photo: Kuzey Ç. ’22
The organizer of the project, Warren Brand (@brandedarts) indicated that the transformative power of art gives students hope and inspiration.
Photo: Kuzey Ç. ’22