Shadowing - Little Earth Native Youth Arts Collective - Heidi Haferman - 2.5 hours
Now, we’re starting to get into the process of the collaboration with the NYAC students and Art in Community class, super exciting! We reviewed a the concept of place and shared our homework - which was to think about what place means to us and some stories/meanings in that said place. We got into groups and it was interesting to hear what place is. Some of the ideas were:
Taking care of these places through cleaning environments and planting of nature
The concept of a place being safe and trustworthy
How a place can change without it changing physically (social/political stances, how structure can taint the wholesomeness of a place)
The feeling of a place being homey with a sense of belonging
After sharing all of this, Genevieve put us into groups for the collaboration project according to our interests and shared mediums. Our group consisted of two NYAC students (Sophia & Alyssa), two MCAD students (Lizbeth & Joseph D.) and me :)
We discussed different ways we can represent place, but represent it in our respected mediums as well. We consented on doing a collective installation where we will prospect the meaning of a “safe place” and what that might mean to us individually (whether it be a place of belonging, unity, without bias, without violence, without judgement, etc.)
However, we will representing this in our own mediums, which consists of animation, film, illustration, and drawing/painting.
Here is a sample of our thought process and navigation through this project!
Residency - El Colegio Charter School - Peter Glaser - 6 hours
It’s almost time to start my lesson/teaching day, which will be on Tuesday (March 19th)! The students will start to be getting into Waves in Physics, so I had to think of something that related to waves and animation to teach the class. We do have a foundation in animation called the “Wave Principle”, which is the use of arcs/waves to create secondary actions (hair, clothing, tails, etc). Here is an example of the breakdown of the wave principle:
I’ll be teaching them how to construct this animation in flip books (that they’ll put together as well!) I bought some Canson animation paper, colored cardstock, and attachments in order to help them create the flip book. Also, I’ll rent out some light-pads from the Media Center in case the students would like to see through to the previous page.
Very excited! In the meantime, I’ll be refining my learning backwards model, making instructional packets, and just practicing in general!
TOTAL HOURS: 8.5 hrs
Other than that, that’s it! Here’s a sneak peek of my first risograph gig poster print for Digital Illustration!
