Robbie Conal BHS

The Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts in Ojai, California will present Standardized Stupidification, a collaborative installation by Besant Hill School students from the Visual Art 4 class and controversial political artist Robbie Conal. The student installation will be presented alongside Conals guerilla art and posters.
The exhibition opens May 16th with an opening reception from 6 9 pm. The public is invited to attend. The exhibition will run through May 30th.
Standardized Stupidification is a commentary on standardized testing and its implications in forcing the hands of educators toward a standardized curriculum, a force that can eclipse diversity, imagination and creativity. Students are lost to themselves in the struggle to fit into a cultural standard. They rebel to have their voice heard above the masses.
Powerless in most schools, Besant Hill offers a venue for student voices to be heard.... through the arts.

Lucia Vinograd, Director of Visual Art at Besant Hill School, and Kevin Wallace, Director of the Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts, offer this installation as one that celebrates the arts and its expression of the madness of our world as we hand it over to our children.

Robbie Conal is an American guerilla poster artist best known for gluing disturbing gnarled, depictions of political figures to fixtures in the urban landscape. Bringing out the inner ugliness of his often morally bankrupt subjects, his posters usually include a portrait, a slogan or one-liner of outrageous sociopolitical commentary. The posters are stealthily placed by Conal and his volunteer guerrilla postering army, throughout public space in Los Angeles and beyond.

Besant Hill School students working with Robbie Conal on the installation include: Grace Garlough, Griffin Davis, Rick Meredith, Connor Jones, Indigo Partch and Yue Yu

The Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts presents exhibitions and performances, while maintaining a permanent installation sharing Beatrice Woods life story with memorabilia, her collection of folk art and wonderful examples of her ceramic art. The Center is housed in the Happy Valley homes once occupied by Beatrice Wood and her good friend Rosalind Rajagopal in Upper Ojai, California.

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[Juliuspleaser1]

Robbie is awesome. =D

[aaronchungrulez]

haha rick just cracks me up