No Boundaries 14
No Boundaries is a district-wide art exhibit that showcases the talents of the entire student body of the Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD). Side Street Projects teaching artists in collaboration with curators in the Los Angeles art community are working with a classroom of Rose City High School to produce and curate the exhibition which opens on Spring Art Night. Students are learning about every level of exhibition production from wall preparation to marketing to making decisions about how and where the art will be shown.
Initiated and coordinated since 2006 by the District Art Team and Community Art Team, the event has been held annually for the past 14 years. Due to budget cuts and limited recourses within the district this exhibition was in danger of being canceled. 2019 will be the first year that Side Street Projects and Rose City students will be taking the lead on the production of No Boundaries, and we plan to continue and expand upon this project and curriculum moving forward.
For the first time, Side Street Projects collaborated with Rose City High School in launching the yearly school district art exhibition “No Boundaries” consisting of hundreds of PUSD K-12 artwork, which opened to the public on March 8, 2019.
The exhibition’s themes focused on identity, nature, and culture. Rose City High School students reviewed all artwork through an aesthetic and conceptual lens, and with the theme in mind students made curatorial decisions on the works and placement.
Watch a time lapse of students setting up the gallery for opening night as shown above.