Shadowing - Little Earth Native Youth Arts Collective - Heidi Haferman - 6.5 hours
On, Friday was the NYAC & MCAD Art in Community’s class show opening! It was a beautifully successful and I’m so proud of all the NYAC students! We opened up at 6pm serving Papusas and Indian fry bread with other snacks, which was delicious! We did a screening of one group’s film, and then took a look at some of our other’s groups.
Here is from our exhibition, feat. me, Sofia (NYAC Student), Maria Robinson, Lizbeth Rosas Real, Olivia Schroeder, and Joseph Dutra.
For our installation, we all used different mediums representing the theme of safe spaces and what that means to us. We paired it with written and audio blurbs explaining our piece. Also, we choose the title “Tanyan akamake” which means, “I’m safe, I’m going well, I’m good”.
Our installations will be up till next Wednesday in front of Auditorium 150, so please check it out! :)
Residency - Children’s Residential Treatment Center - Carmen Elate - 6 hours
Last Tuesday was my first lesson teaching the students some 2D Digital Animation examples and the Introduction to the Project. The project consists of students creating a poem within the theme of safe spaces, animating to that poem, and adding voice over audio. This will be a collaboration project so each student/group can create an animation that will be put all together into one video; ultimately, creating one huge poem with different animation styles, techniques, and voices. The students will be using an ipad app, called FlipAClip, which is an amazing app to animate with! It has all the features they need!
On Wednesday, I went over a FlipAClip Demo, helping to get their feet in the water and getting familiar with the app.
Then, Friday, I went over three animation techniques (looping, morphing, and rotoscoping) to help them get some ideas on ways they can animate their poem.
It was a hefty week of 15 minute presentations, but now for two weeks, the students will get some work time and individual help. In a week or so, I’ll do one more presentation on how to add audio and troubleshooting timing with their animation and audio.
Speaking of work, the students’ work has blown me away so far!! They’re getting started so quickly and some are almost completed; it’s only been a WEEK! I’m so excited to share this project with you all when it all gets compiled together!
Total Hours: 12.5 hours
Other than that, been kind of crazy with projects but heavily productive. Here’s a structure of some stained glass windows I designed for an environment for Digital Illustration.
