Final Project: Typologies of Walking/Not
Corrected by a Teacher Typologies of Walking/Not: Final Project Medium: Walking-based performance, red flair pen, red chalk, and iPhone photography Link Walk 1 (Park): Red Walk 2 (Stores): Yellow Walk 3 (Drive to work): Purple Video Link: Artist Statement/Reflection How do we hold systems accountable? As a former K–6 teacher and now a future art teacher, I have spent years surrounded by rubrics, feedback, and grades. I have written thousands of comments meant to guide students. But too often, grades become measures of worth, power, and control. They are shaped by systemic pressures rather than genuine learning, Focusing on students grades as a way to measure the schools worth and my own dangling funding and other things in front of public schools. In the schools where I taught, underfunded and overburdened, grading hid much larger issues. So I flipped it. This walking-based intervention redirects the familiar grading language and use...
