It is now May 2021, and our school has reopened after being closed for in-person learning for over one year. At this time in San Diego, our Covid-19 infection rates have dropped, the governor has reopened the state, and the vaccine is available for most. As we wrestle with understanding the pandemic and its fallout, our safety in schools, and a new social life after long periods of isolation about 50% of our students have selected in-person instruction. Typically, when meeting remotely our students do creative, computer programming projects but for these in-person sessions, we have elected to do physical, community-based installation art. On this 7th day of class, students decided to explore “experimental quilting” by collaging fabric remnants together.
