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Embodying the River
WHEN

June 2022
WHAT

Performance art with custom t-shirts and an installation with plastic, projections, and soundWHO

Created by all students and staff at Prescott School

Developed with high school ASB students, and teachers Bob Young and Tiffany Hedman: Tyfany A., Fatima B., Yosceline E., Alexa M., Ayleen O., Yadira Q., Amy Q., Diego V., and Naomi V. WHERE

Throughout the entire indoor and outdoor school campus


One day in June 2022, Prescott students, teachers, and staff became a river. 

High school students from Associated Student Body (ASB) designed a walking path for the river to flow from the Tiger Den to the soccer field. Students walked in pairs—one middle or high school student with one elementary student.

As we walked, we saw and heard art made by elementary, middle, and high school students: In the gym and cafeteria, middle school and high school students made huge inflatable sculptures that looked like ice. Video projections of the Touchet River made by seventh graders covered the gym walls and floor. Music filled the air. Third, fourth, and fifth-grade students carried balloons that bounced like a river. Everyone wore t-shirts with drawings made by first-grade students.

At the end, we gathered on the soccer field in the shape of a cloud. We were the art. 

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Photos by Allyn Griffin (drone pilot), Kyle Peets and Tara J Graves






After the performance, we printed a vinyl banner that was applied to a baseball dugout on the field where the cloud was formed.




These poem posters provided the movement score during the all-school performance.