Wish You Were Here

PRESS RELEASE

Wish You Were Here An Internet Project

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With the objective of promoting international communication and understanding, students in the graduate Art Education department at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia collaborated with students at Taigh Chearsabhagh in the Western Isles, Scotland. During the Fall 2008 Semester they worked on a Sense of Place Web project.

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Wish You Were Here was posted on the main Blog, Sounds of the City ~ Scent of the Sea: Art & Conversation about the Multiple Meanings of Place - a continuing project in June Julian's Educational Media courses.

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Each UArts student documented their experience of Philadelphia with their choice of media and the students from Scotland posted artwork related to their home in the remote islands of the Outer Hebrides. The Internet formed the bridge across the Atlantic for both groups to share art and conversation about their individual sense of place.

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The images on the Wish You Were Here project are interesting in their similarities and differences. The Philadelphia students work documents a large city with the corresponding multiple levels of complexity contained within an urban environment. In contrast, the student work from the Western Isles seems primal and essential, yet contains deep sediments of human stories. Images of the sea marry images of the noisy city to create a new visual poetry on the project site.

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Additionally, each Art Education student created a Wish You Were Here lesson plan for the K-12 art classroom. These can be accessed from their individual profile links on the main project blog:

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http://soundsofthecity-scentofthesea.blogspot.com/