Making Art Mean: Year 8 Wearable Arts Project 为艺术赋予涵义：8年级的可穿戴艺术

As part of the Sustainability and the Environment topic, Year 8 have been working on a Wearable Arts project which finished last week with a bold performance. The auditorium was transformed into an eerie world, where our students were entangled in plastic waste, dripping with oil from oil spills, or enacting the destruction of deforestation. 

作为可持续性和环境主题的一部分，8年级一直致力于一项可穿戴艺术项目，并于上周献上了一场精彩的服装秀。礼堂变成了一个怪异的世界，在那里我们的学生们被废塑料包裹，滴油泄漏，或扮演着被破坏砍伐的森林。

The wearable arts project was a collaboration between the Visual Art and Performing Art departments. Students made their art pieces out of waste materials – plastic bottles, old pieces of card, plastic bags – and their performances represented different environmental issues facing our planet.

可穿戴艺术项目是视觉艺术和表演艺术部门共同合作完成的。学生们用废旧材料制作艺术品——塑料瓶，旧卡片，塑料袋，并用他们的表演呈现我们这个星球面临的不同环境问题。

There are many benefits to cross-department collaboration such as this. Performing Art Teacher Ms Atkins explains how, in school drama productions, performance is usually character-based. So choreographing a wearable art performance exercised very different, more visual skills.

像这样的跨部门协作有很多好处。表演艺术教师Atkins女士说道，在学校的戏剧作品中，表演通常是以角色为基础的。因此，编排本次可穿戴艺术表演锻炼了学生不同的视觉技能。

Art Teacher Ms Cusato felt that the project was a good opportunity to introduce the idea of making meaning in art. To perform a piece of art, students had to use their work to convey a message.

艺术教师Cusato女士认为，这个项目能让学生更好的理解“创作有意义的艺术”。为了能更好的展示艺术作品，学生必须用作品传达更多的信息。

Ms Atkins and Ms Cusato hope that students have learned how art doesn’t have to look attractive, use traditional materials or be static to be art. Art can be worn, it can be ugly, it can be performed. Additionally, art and performance can be vehicles to drive social change. Sometimes art surpasses all other media in its power to make people feel and make a difference.

Atkins女士和Cusato女士希望学生可以理解艺术不必看起来那么吸引人，可以使用传统的材料或静态艺术。艺术也可以穿戴，可以是丑陋的，可以被展示出来。另外，艺术和表演也能推动社会变革。甚至有时，艺术的力量超越了所有其他媒体，可以给人们带来影响和触动。

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