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(Gus)
    • Creator: Prospect School and Center for Education and Research
    • Date Created: 2008-09-11
    • Description: (Gus’) original collection in the Archive spans 8 years, 1972-1980, ages 5 years and 4 months to 13 years and 4 months. The full collection contains 870 items, which are reproduced on microfiche in the Reference Edition. Houses and dwellings are prominent in (Gus’) work, often elaborated with strong color applied in contiguous blocks or patterns ofstripes or grids, with variations in chimneys and other elements that indicate the form is a structure for variation. Ghosts, monsters, robots, and vehicles appear in his work, although with inattention or ambiguity as to setting or narrative. He experiments with ways of using visual media to represent invisible forces in physics and spirit. In pictures and stories, sports and popular culture are a motif. In stories, as well as in visual work, there can be a shift from the particular and present, to a more ambiguous space/time. An implied largeness is worked, as it were meditatively, through ordered repetition and variation of color or elements. Number, pattern, and color are important and serve as means of relationship, though relationship may also be conveyed by, for example, a tree leaning into another. The largeness and general absence of story or continuous action evoke a sense of archetypal forms or ideas and of incipience, beginning, or promise. Non-figurative work is particularly abundant at ages 8-9, 10-11, and 12-13. The quantity of visual work falls off in the last two years of the collection, but suggests involvement with large ideas of space, time, and spirit. His production of writing increases somewhat. In writing and in visual works, he explores themes of world citizenry and personal self-determination. His writing style remains lean, spare.
    • Parent Collections: Prospect Archive of Children's Work


    (Mick)
      • Creator: Prospect School and Center for Education and Research
      • Date Created: 2008-09-11
      • Description: (Mick’s) original collection in the Archive spans eight years, 1975-1983, ages five to thirteen. The full collection contains 2,511 items, which are reproduced on microfiche in the Reference Edition. (Mick’s) persisting preferences include multiple fields of action covering vast expanses, sometimes covering both sides of a large sheet of newsprint; overviews, often with huge sky and tiny figures; and cross-sectional views depicting actions on the surface of the water and below; in writing, stories may be told from two perspectives. Gesture and intensity is depicted in energetic activity with favored motifs being sports and physical activity including kickball, skiers, motorcyclists, soldiers, Vikings, explosions, bursts, and swirls of brilliant color. Action often exceeds the boundaries of the page and ground lines tend to be omitted. In counterpoint, there is a penchant for precision and detail as in maps, diagrams, football grids, insignia, uniforms, and equipment. In play with this attention to detail is an emphasis on practice in both visual and written work. Vikings have a storehouse for their supplies and practice their swordplay. (Mick) himself practices forms and shapes that serve multiple purposes: an extended “v” shape, upright or on its side used for the legs of kicks and the prow of a ship. Ships, houses, and trees recur across the collection. Writing about animals introduces most directly an element of sweetness that can be inferred elsewhere. Humor, verbal play, visual jokes, and verbal facility span the collection. Later works, especially landscape paintings, have a lyricism not visible earlier. Writing as a preferred medium takes off at age nine, producing adventure stories, drama, and descriptive writing.
      • Parent Collections: Prospect Archive of Children's Work


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        • Creator: Prospect Archives and Center for Education and Research
        • Description: This set of 248 color reproductions represents all the color images made of (Gus‚Äô) work for the Reference Edition. The selection results from the work of a participant in the Prospect Archive Scholars/Fellows project of 1983-85 or of comparable study in later institutes. The participants‚Äîgenerally educators‚Äîeach went through each item in the child‚Äôs collection, organized and numbered it chronologically, and, together with others similarly engaged, used Prospect‚Äôs DescriptiveProcesses to make additional collaborative inquiries into the work and the common and divergent threads between the children. The selection of color images for the Reference Edition was made on the basis of this study, to represent characteristic and exceptional themes, motifs, stylistic tendencies, and choices of media, through the duration of the collection.
        • Parent Collections: Prospect Archive of Children's Work, (Gus)


        (Alva) 09_016
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          • Creator: Prospect Archives and Center for Education and Research
          • Parent Collections: Prospect Archive of Children's Work, (Alva), (Alva) Extended Image Selection


          (Alva) 09_017
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            • Creator: Prospect Archives and Center for Education and Research
            • Parent Collections: Prospect Archive of Children's Work, (Alva), (Alva) Extended Image Selection


            (Alva) 11_014
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              • Creator: Prospect Archives and Center for Education and Research
              • Parent Collections: Prospect Archive of Children's Work, (Alva), (Alva) Extended Image Selection


              (Alva) 11_027
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                • Creator: Prospect Archives and Center for Education and Research
                • Parent Collections: Prospect Archive of Children's Work, (Alva), (Alva) Extended Image Selection


                (Alva) 11_137
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                  • Creator: Prospect Archives and Center for Education and Research
                  • Parent Collections: Prospect Archive of Children's Work, (Alva), (Alva) Extended Image Selection


                  (Alva) 11_146
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                    • Creator: Prospect Archives and Center for Education and Research
                    • Parent Collections: Prospect Archive of Children's Work, (Alva), (Alva) Extended Image Selection


                    (Alva) 06_150_001
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                      • Creator: Prospect Archives and Center for Education and Research
                      • Parent Collections: Prospect Archive of Children's Work, (Alva), (Alva) Extended Image Selection