Community of Peace Academy, Teacher Ms. Lor, High School, 5 hours.
Minnesota Museum of American Art, 4 Hours.
In the Minnesota Museum of American Art on Sunday, January 20, 2019, they had an event called Family Day. Family day is they bring Artist to teach or create a activity for the family and adults. There was different artist with different activities and people can watch and/or participate. I was helping an artist named Senah Yeboah-Sampong & Witt Siasoco. Their activity was to make candles with the audience that hold your wisdom and wishes. They write a phrase or draw a symbol on a small, wood square. They had to write or draw something they are inspired in life or within themselves. which is then placed in a cup and covered with wax to form a candle. When they take it home and light it and when its finished, they can re-read what they have wrote or drew. My job was helping them put their squares into the cup and glue it and explaining what they had to do.
In CPA, I worked with high-school and 8th graders. Their assignment was to identify who they are and what they liked in their life or inspired. After they were finished with writing, they hand to draw a portrait of themselves. They can use any style like an animal self or cartoon or natural realistic. If they finished early they could have worked on their other assignment that they need to create an object based of a line. The students was getting comfortable around me to let me help them and help them build ideas or to add on to their ideas.
Questions I had during these events are, what makes a project a project? What can a project help the audience? Not just in that moment but in the future?
I can use this for my future as a teaching artist is by helping my students to build on to their ideas or giving them options and to create projects that can be related to the student’s life or to make them think of thing they wouldn’t have before.
I was helping a family placing their squares into the cups before putting in the wax.