Multi-Media Installations

This year, girls in grades 8-9 created multi-media installations that honored the “past, present, and future” of two historic schools in Madison County –the Mars Hill Anderson Rosenwald School and the Laurel School. Through collaborating on teams led by college interns and staff, veteran PAGE girls were able to incorporate digital filmmaking, photography, text, art and sculpture into a new kind of immersive learning experience.

This digital learning project was designed and facilitated by Summer Dunsmore, a graduate of Duke University’s MFA program in Experimental and Documentary Arts. Summer led collaborative teams of girls, college interns, and staff on a journey that took them inside empty school buildings –once the heart of the communities they served.

The voices of the two school’s former students and teachers were an integral part of this immersive learning experience.Girls interviewed local community members, photographed and filmed people and places, learned new digital editing skills, and worked on teams to create multi-media installations that premiered at our 9th Annual PAGE Exhibition in July 2018.