On Tuesday, I met with Sheila to discuss the event I will be helping with in partnership with 826 MSP. Sheila and I went around the museum to find three artworks to be character inspiration, whether figural or anthropomorphised that the kids will use for storytelling. For part of the event, I will be helping to illustrate the stories the students come up with. Hopefully, for another part of the event, I will be guiding the students around the museum to see the three artworks they will use for their story inspiration. On Wednesday, I helped out Victoria Myers with setting up spring break kits for the MIA. There were several kits to put together, but we mainly focused on Akiko Ostlund’s creative journaling lesson. At the CVA in my hometown, I have put together art kits before, so it was interesting to compare my past experience with the kits at the MIA. In a lot of ways, the set up was very similar. In fact, some of the same materials and brands were used. At the CVA, we ended up putting everything in a box to be mailed out to people (or for pick up), while at the MIA, we tried to fit everything into as small of packaging as possible to be mailed out. One thing I thought was genius that the MIA did with their kits is they partnered with another organization to put sensory kits into the boxes for the students. On Saturday, the MIA held an open studio to help create a community altar with the artist, Keegan, while Khusaba Seka did spiritual readings for people. The event was in preparation for a talk on Sunday with a series of altars around the room. Overall, the whole event was extremely calming. Keegan would greet incoming participants and show them the materials to make a candlelight, but would always offer they didn’t have to. If they wanted, they could just hang out and enjoy the event. Keigen would stress they could also create something entirely different. Because of the openness to creativity, people made some absolutely creative and stunning versions of candlelights. People made flowers, paper stars, bulbs, etc. Everyone added their own flourish to the candlelights. Along with this, everyone seemed to be extremely relaxed at the event. Everyone was so kind and open with people they just met, so conversation flowed so easily between the participants. Overall, the entire experience felt very spiritual and I was so honored to help be a part of it.