Monarch Academy getting myriad of murals from local artist
Using art installations and murals, Nancy Scheinman designs three-dimensional, multisensory environments that set the scene for experiential learning in schools — learning through direct experience instead of just about the experience of others.
- Paint cans are strewn about in a hallway in the Monarch Academy Public Charter School Baltimore as artists work on murals in mid-November. (Jon Sham/BSMG)
- Paint cans are strewn about in a hallway in the Monarch Academy Public Charter School Baltimore as artists work on murals in mid-November. (Jon Sham/BSMG)
- Nancy Scheinman poses for a photo in a hallway at the Monarch Academy in Baltimore, as she and her crew work on murals for the school on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013. (Jon Sham/BSMG)
- Hanna Moran, in the foreground, of Hampden, works on a mural at the Monarch Academy in Baltimore city with Laura Judkis, of Station North, on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013. (Jon Sham/BSMG)
- Maura Dwyer, of Charles Village, works on some detail in a mural in a hallway at the Monarch Academy in Baltimore on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013. Dwyer is working with Nancy Scheinman of NS Studios to create colorful murals throughout the school. (Jon Sham/BSMG)
- Garrett Ames-Ledbetter, right, of the Aigburth neighbohood in Towson, and Maura Dwyer, of Charles Village, talk about the mural they’re working on at the Monarch Academy in Baltimore on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013. (Jon Sham/BSMG)
- A printout of the mural Hanna Moran is painting at the Monarch Academy lies on the ground to help guide her and other painters with Nancy Scheinman and NS Studios, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013. The group is working on several murals at the Baltimore school. (Jon Sham/BSMG)
- Nancy Scheinman, of the Stoneleigh neighborhood in Towson, poses for a photo at The Children’s Guild in Baltimore on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013, in a hallway that she designed and decorated. (Jon Sham/BSMG)
“Most schools are so institutional and visually boring, I looked out the window all the time,” she said.
Monarch Baltimore, like other guild-operated schools, follows the school jurisdiction’s curriculum requirements. In addition, its mission, is to create a culture where students are guided to “think critically, problem-solve creatively, become self-disciplined” and to “understand that the goal of life is to serve a cause larger than one’s self.”
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