reForm

Pepón Osorio, reForm (detail), 2015, mixed media and video installation. Images by Constance Mensh (for Temple Contemporary).
Pepón Osorio, reForm (detail), 2015, mixed media and video installation. Images by Betsy Manning.
Pepón Osorio, reForm (detail), 2015, mixed media and video installation. Images by Constance Mensh (for Temple Contemporary).
Pepón Osorio, reForm (detail), 2015, mixed media and video installation. Images by Constance Mensh (for Temple Contemporary).
Pepón Osorio, reForm (detail), 2015, mixed media and video installation. Images by Constance Mensh (for Temple Contemporary).
Pepón Osorio, reForm (detail), 2015, mixed media and video installation. Image by Constance Mensh (for Temple Contemporary).
Pepón Osorio, reForm (detail), 2015, mixed media and video installation. Images by Constance Mensh (for Temple Contemporary).
Pepón Osorio, reForm (detail), 2015, mixed media and video installation. Images by Constance Mensh (for Temple Contemporary).

Pepón Osorio, reForm (detail), 2015, mixed media and video installation. Image by Constance Mensh (for Temple Contemporary).
Pepón Osorio, reForm (detail), 2015, mixed media and video installation. Images by Constance Mensh (for Temple Contemporary).
Reentering the Fairhill School building after two years of closure. Photo by Stephanie Rogers
File cabinets in the school's front office. Photo by Stephanie Rogers.
Bulletin board in the closed Fairhill School building. Photo by Stephanie Rogers
Pencil sharpener in a former kindergarten classroom. Photo by Stephanie Rogers
A message in the stairwell wall left by a student. Photo by Stephanie Rogers
Footprints in the former Head Start classroom. Photo by Stephanie Rogers
The school's front doors.
Fairhill Public School banner on display for the class reunion at Tyler School of Art.
Fairhill class reunion, in Tyler Rm. B85, 12/12/14
"Welcome Fairhill School"
Bobcat Collective student member during a planning meeting. Photo by Ross Brodsky.
Bobcat Collective planning meeting. Photo by Ross Brodsky.
Fairhill School with "PROPERTY AVAILABLE FOR SALE" sign.
reForm Fun Day at Fairhill event, May 1st, 2015. Based on a school tradition of an annual "Fun Day" where Fairhill students, staff, and families came together for celebration and fellowship. Photo by Tony Rocco.
Former Fairhill students reunited at reForm Fun Day event. Photo by Tony Rocco.
Former Fairhill student at Fun Day. Photo by Tony Rocco.
A speech by Bobcat Collective members, at a podium made from water fountain salvaged from the school. Photo by Tony Rocco.
Former Fairhill teachers embrace after an impassioned speech. Photo by Tony Rocco.
Fairhill memory wall at Fun Day. Photo by Tony Rocco.
Speech by former Fairhill School principal at Fun Day event.
Water ice and drumming at Fun Day.
Drum line from Kensington High School for the Creative and Performing Arts at Fun Day.
At the end of the Fun Day event, furniture and mementos salvaged from the closed school were brought in a procession to Tyler School of Art, where they will be incorporated in to an art installation.
reForm opening reception, 8/28/15. Photo: Tim Gibbon
reForm opening reception, 8/28/15. Osorio with Tyler student intern and former Fairhill student/Bobcat member. Photo: Tim Gibbon
reForm opening reception, 8/28/15. Photo: Tim Gibbon
reForm opening reception, 8/28/15. Former Fairhill student in front of her video box. Photo: Tim Gibbon
reForm opening reception, 8/28/15. Former Fairhill students. Photo: Tim Gibbon.
Bobcats creating a remodelled version of Fairhill School, during a weekly Saturday workshop.
Bobcat members give a tour of the reForm exhibition to School Reform Commission members.
Bobcats Chelsey and Coralis giving a speech at Fun Day 2.0.
Former parent and teacher reconnecting at Fun Day 2.0.
Fun Day 2.0, May 2016.
Smashing a pinata of the School District building.
Bobcats' project display and petition at Fun Day 2.0.
Bobcats share their story.

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PAST EVENT: reForm Fun Day 2.0 at Fairhill