Over the spring break I went back home to Wisconsin, so I didn’t have the chance to do anything with the MIA. However, the gallery I work at, the Center for the Visual Arts, had their yearly Expressions art camp that I have gone to every year since I was a kid (minus the last two years). My brain has been a scrambled egg lately, so I didn’t realize that the day lined up with my spring break. Because of this, it was too late for me to teach for it, however, I did get to help volunteer for it with my mom. It was really exciting because I got to put all my knowledge and experience I learned from my two teaching classes here at MCAD into action. The event went from 9 to 3 with three different areas of focus; 2D art, 3D art, and applied arts. The students signed up for one area of focus and were able to create 4 different artworks. I helped out with 2D art with the teachers Olivia and Madison. The students were able to experience watercolors, collage, solar printing, and monoprinting. A lot of the projects were experimental like solar printing and monoprinting, which meant a lot of the student’s artwork didn’t turn out. I was surprised at how many of the students were content with this. It was great that they knew they were playing around with art and seemed to enjoy the process versus the final product. At the CVA, I had never worked with Olivia before, so it was great to see her teaching practice. She referred to the students as friends and used sayings like “clap once, clap twice, etc” to get the student’s attention. This camp in my experience has always been a long day for the students, so their energy always depletes at the end of the day. If the kids finished up their artwork early, I had a set amount of drawing challenges I stored in my noggin to entertain the students like “draw your pet monster” or “you’re on an alien planet at an alien restaurant and you order a dish, what does it look like, “ which the kids really responded to. At the very end of the day when all the students finished up, Olivia played a drawing game with them where each kid draws one line on a piece of paper and then they pass it to the student on their right. At first the kids were skeptical, but they ended up getting really into it.