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Handmade Victorian Dollhouse
This one-of-a-kind handmade Victorian Dollhouse was beautifully constructed by Pierce Alderson’s grandfather, who spent over 300 hours lovingly hand building it from a Beacon Hill
dollhouse kit. Pierce selected this design because it felt the most like San Francisco to him, and it had the same Victorian charm that our own RHS school building has. Once the dollhouse was built, each of the teachers at RHS had a hand in decorating one of the nine different rooms.
This unique piece of art will be such a loving memory of your child's time at RHS, and a treasure that your child will happily play with for years to come.
Assembled Dollhouse Dimensions: 32” W x 17” D x 40” H
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"Playful Hearts #1" - Teacher Stephanie
Dimensions: 24" x 48" canvas
When children play they are learning lifelong coping skills. While exploring the world through imagination, kids learn who they are, what fulfills them, and how to creatively problem solve. Most of all, play teaches children how to enjoy life. These crucial skills follow us all into adulthood and contribute greatly to our ability to seek happiness in life.
This painting investigates this very concept of linking imaginary play with real life joy. Each child was asked to talk about their hopes and dreams and imagine themselves floating towards them in a hot air balloon from their wildest fantasies.
The making of this multidisciplinary, multilayered piece includes painting the sunrise background, tracing, cutting, and patterning hot air balloons using tape and paint, designing, drawing, cutting, and painting animals and objects as the balloons’ baskets, photoshoots of each child pretending to ride their balloons, and cutting, gluing, glazing, and stitching the pieces together.
Children included in the piece:
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Christian |
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Ronan |
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Izzy |
| Henry G |
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Pierce |
| Milo |
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Ariana |
| Hadley |
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Jonathan |
| Austin |
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Luna |
Connor S
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Dylan |
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Molly |
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"reconstruction" - Teacher Alex
Dimensions: 48" x 40"
Materials: Gold origami paper, recycled card-stock, repurposed puzzles, and acrylic paint on cardboard paper.
The concept for this art project arose as a response to the global crisis of climate change and social justice in the United States of America. The process of creating this piece emphasized the importance of community through the many stages or “contributions” that were added to help build a thought provoking composition about issues our children will likely have to solve within their lifetime. Big positive changes are achieved when everyone in society has an alignment of goal, and when each individual contribution affects the outcome of that goal.
The puzzle pieces are sourced from various thrift shops and repurposed as a blank canvas for students to exercise the painting strategy unique to the Russian Hill School. The use of greens and grays reflect the colors of native trees and plants unique to the Bay Area. Each child pictured posed strategically to evoke the grand Greek Classical and Renaissance group compositions which are two prominent human civilizations that have critically shaped the idea of democracy in the United States. The puzzle pieces are carefully organized to form a symbol of peace, that is yet to be achieved in these unusual times.
The gold background is inspired by kintsugi (金継ぎ), which is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery that is meaningful and of value by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold. Gold origami squares were carefully scrunched into a ball and flattened to give it an organic/imperfect effect. The gold signifies the repair and the bonds needed to restore our environment and a society that values each one of us.
“reconstruction” is a reflection of the times that we live in today. Progress is being made, but how can we support them now for the problems they will intimately experience? The best we can do is to educate, keep them well informed, and invite them into the process of reconstructing our society.
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Jonathan |
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Che |
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Austin |
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Ronan |
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Max |
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Jasper |
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Emil |
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Helena |
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Brooke |
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Nico |
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Hadley |
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Lucia |
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Olivia |
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Henry G. |
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Alex |
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Jackson |
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Dylan |
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Pierce |
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Henry J. |
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Jameson |
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Connor S. |
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Taj |
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Isabel |
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William |
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Molly |
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"Playful Hearts #2" - Teacher Stephanie
Dimensions: 24" x 48" canvas
When children play they are learning lifelong coping skills. While exploring the world through imagination, kids learn who they are, what fulfills them, and how to creatively problem solve. Most of all, play teaches children how to enjoy life. These crucial skills follow us all into adulthood and contribute greatly to our ability to seek happiness in life.
This painting investigates this very concept of linking imaginary play with real life joy. Each child was asked to talk about their hopes and dreams and imagine themselves floating towards them in a hot air balloon from their wildest fantasies.
The making of this multidisciplinary, multilayered piece includes painting the sunrise background, tracing, cutting, and patterning hot air balloons using tape and paint, designing, drawing, cutting, and painting animals and objects as the balloons’ baskets, photoshoots of each child pretending to ride their balloons, and cutting, gluing, glazing, and stitching the pieces together.
Children included in the piece:
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Brooke |
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Lucia |
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Jacob |
| Corben |
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Nico |
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Alex
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Jackson |
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“Metamorphosis from A-Z” - Teacher Hend
Dimensions: 48" x 40"
Materials: Various materials stemming from the ABC letter project.
The Metamorphosis A-Z is an amalgamation of colors, textures, and mediums to form the stages of a caterpillar’s development into a butterfly, much like our students. We incorporated our alphabet learning by using the same materials that construct our classroom A-Z tiling, as the makeup for our insects. This multi-process project required geometric understanding and the recognition of the segmented parts in a drawing. The use of hand-eye coordination with high attention and concentration allowed the students to refine their fine motor skills and build detail definition.
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"Faces in Phases Project" - Teacher Lyvette
Dimensions: Two pieces that are 30" x 30" or one piece that will be 40" x 40"
We experience a myriad of feelings, emotions and moods each moment in our lives. As adults most of us can filter out the complexities of how we feel to handle them in a healthy and safe manner. Feelings are complicated and for children it’s helpful to untangle their mixed responses to life in a fun and reflective way.
Using the RHS emotional chart, the children were photographed to give their own depictions of what a series of emotions would look like to them. Incorporating one-to-one sessions with Teacher Lyvette and Teacher Matt, fun and relatable real life situations were discussed while the child picked his/her own monochromatic color scheme for their respective portrait. Each color in their chosen palette was named a feeling or mood to explain to the children,
“Your mind is a garden, your thoughts are the seed….you can grow flowers, or you can grow weeds.” –Anonymous
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