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Students from Spanish VI and Art Remix show of their collaborative artwork hanging in the Center for the Arts. Courtesy photo.



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WOODSTOCK — Woodstock Academy students from Annmarie Thibodeau’s Spanish VI and Justin Dupuis’s Art Remix class collaborated to create a large Mexico-themed mural that combines culture and language with art.
Students from Spanish VI, an honors level course, began the project by researching Mexico and collecting images that represent the country’s culture. Students paired each image with vocabulary words from Spanish, English, or an indigenous language of Mexico.
Art Remix teacher Justin Dupuis transformed the images into a mural design.
Then Dupuis and Thibodeau matched students from Art Remix and Spanish VI to work in pairs on a section of the mural. “They had to collaborate throughout the whole process,” said Thibodeau.
The result is a striking, large mural that now hangs in the lobby of the Center for the Arts on South Campus. “It looks great, and the students are so proud of their work,” said Thibodeau.
Spanish VI is a new course and is the highest level of Spanish offered at The Academy.
The course focuses on careers, cultures, and language and is taught exclusively in Spanish.
Art Remix is a studio based exploration of image-capture devices and traditional art media in art and society. The course encourages art innovation and readily lends itself to collaborative art projects. “We encourage our students to make interdisciplinary connections all the time- the results are usually fascinating,” said Christopher Sandford, head of school at The Woodstock Academy.
“The product of this collaboration is not only the mural we now have hanging in the Center for the Arts, but also the lessons our students learn about working together on a common goal.”