Jane dickson biography

Artist as Observer
How can you creatively express the overlooked or misunderstood? 
Dickson’s oil stick on linen artworks, which draw from photographs she took in the 1980s, highlight changing and sometimes overlooked urban environments.

As the artist acutely observes, “Now is mostly unrecognizable as it’s unfolding.” Encourage students to have a dialogue about changing, overlooked, ignored, or stereotyped places in their neighborhoods or communities. Ask them to consider how they could make people aware of the positive aspects of their surroundings to rectify misconceptions.

Jane dickson biography

Have students choose how they can visually communicate their discoveries. Engage students in deciding how their works will be displayed in order to enhance their efforts to change viewers’ points of view.

Artist as Storyteller
How do you make others aware of change? 
“Everyone lives in a double helix of then and now, new experience entwining with past,” Jane Dickson reflects.

Ha