(Alva)
(Alva's) original collection in the Archive spans eight years, 1976-1985, ages 5 to 13. The full collection contains 952 items, which are reproduced on microfiche in the Reference Edition. The collection stands out for (Alva's) attention to composition. She uses boundaries, framing, corner treatments, and lines to divide the space of a page. Pattern, repetition, symmetry, and layering appear across the collection and within individual pieces. Lines, bands, panels, and columns recur, with a preference for the vertical, but also intersecting lines and bands. (Alva) uses a variety of media, including chalk, cray-pas, pencil, crayon, colored pencil, watercolor, tempera, printing, rubbings, marbling, and collage, and she mixes media within a piece of work. Consistent motifs include natural and outdoor scenes, animals (often in groups), hills, suns, water, houses with trees and flowers, bursts of color, and patterned or geometric forms. Vivid color permeates the visual collection. Much of (Alva's) written work deals with relationship, with strong feeling at the core. The strength of feeling is contained by a style that is structured and attentive to detail and by a straightforward tone. Animals (especially horses and mice) in her written work experience changes of relationship and feeling. Relationships among people are explored as well, and in her later work values of equality and justice come to the fore.
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(Alva) Narrative
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- Creator: Prospect Archives and Center for Education and Research
- Description: The records consist of Prospect School teachers’ weekly notes and semi-annual reports to parents about (Alva) plus, as available, notes of Descriptive Reviews about her and her work.
- Parent Collections: Prospect Archive of Children's Work, (Alva)
(Alva) Catalogue
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- Creator: Prospect Archives and Center for Education and Research
- Description: The catalogues are year-by-year summaries of (Alva’s) original collection preceded by an overall summary, all prepared by Prospect Archive Scholars/Fellows working with the original material.
- Parent Collections: Prospect Archive of Children's Work, (Alva)
(Alva) Writings
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- Creator: Prospect Archives and Center for Education and Research
- Description: Selected Writings are transcriptions of a child’s writing. They were made by various people working with the file, at different times, generally in preparation for a workshop or institute at which the child’s work was to be studied. Other than the use of pseudonyms and the removal of other identifying elements, no consistent guidelines for handling spelling, punctuation, or other idiosyncrasies were applied.
- Parent Collections: Prospect Archive of Children's Work, (Alva)