Meital Smith
Meital's Experience in Rhode Island Schools!
Meital is an artist / designer from Seattle, Washington. She’s wanted to become an art teacher ever since she’s thought of having a career. Growing up attending Camp Miriam, a socialist Jewish summer camp in Canada, instilled her with a deep passion for social justice and youth empowerment, with a healthy dose of fun sprinkled in; all of which she plans on bringing to her future classroom. In her artistic practice, Meital gravitates towards printmaking, painting, comics and illustration, as well as making little friends out of clay. When she’s not doing that, you might find her knitting, biking, or gallivanting around outside with her loved ones. This year, she was a student teacher at Lillian Feinstein Elementary and Central Falls High School.
LILLIAN FEINSTEIN ELEMENTARY
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Student working on self portrait inspired by contemporary artist Christian Scott. Students used mirrors to create colorful self portraits and used crayons and popsicle sticks to experiment with scratching patterns into their work.
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During a free draw, a student decided to create a self portrait. Note the observational skills present of the student illustrating their own sweatshirt.
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A process shot of a student discovering the use of tabs in 3D paper collage by making an astronaut from the game Among Us. This was an instant hit amongst the other students and they were asked how they did that from all sides. Yay for horizontal learning!
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Four students sitting next to each other decided to make their clay Golems interact with each other by making them all players on the same baseball team with different poses. They then worked together to create a baseball field for them to be on.
CENTRAL FALLS HIGH SCHOOL
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This is me demoing how to print a linoleum carved block to a group of high schoolers. Instead of using a brayer and ink, we used ink pads to make our prints.
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A student's compiled process for a Playing Card Redesign project that asks them to remake a playing card through the lens of a social justice topic. This student chose to make their card about women's rights, and went through a rigorous design process to get to the final product, including testing and labeling different colored pencils, doing sketches, and trying a new symmettry transfer technique.
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Final critique of the Playing Card project! Since many students also illustrated a on the back of their design to create a facsimile of a playing card, I strung up the final cards from twine and clothespins so students could see both sides of the card easily.
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As a cool-down project, students were encouraged to become comfortable with making pony bead designs by following along with tutorials, and then creating their own original design. This student really wanted to make a toucan, and went through multiple iterations of the design and problem solving it until it came out to their liking.
