Follow a Trip to Art Installations Across the Country

MKA Upper School Fine and Performing Arts Department Chair and sculpture teacher Alicia Cuccolo is blogging live from outdoor art installations across the country as she pursues her Faculty Trust Grant.

Faculty Trust Grants, a hallmark of the MKA faculty experience, are funded by the school's Parents' Association (PAMKA) and awarded annually to enable teachers to pursue field-oriented experiences that will both enrich them personally and enhance their students' learning in a unique way.

This year, PAMKA awarded six grants, including Cuccolo's, to teachers who are travelling to Australia, Ireland and Peru as well as to the USA.  Cuccolo's grant is enabling her to embark on a journey across the USA to experience first-hand prominent site-specific outdoor sculptural projects, from ancient petroglyphs in Wyoming to the contemporary, ongoing construction of James Turrell’s Roden Crater in Arizona. The blog she creates, supplemented with high quality photography and video lessons from each site, will also be brought back to her classrooms.  Explains Cuccolo: “I focus on ways to push my students' thinking so they are able to connect art to their world. By introducing them to a variety of artists, concepts, methods and processes, they engage and think more critically and creatively to solve problems.“

Click here to follow Cuccolo's blog.