Week Sixteen: May 6th - May 10th

Residency - Children’s Residential Treatment Center - Carmen Elate - 4.5 hours

Students are still working on their animations and I have 10 films so far! So excited to finally see more completed projects! I’ve been compiling them into an After Effects timeline and putting music to it. On Tuesday, I’ll pick three tracks for the students to choose from, so they have a say in what music will be put to their animations!

We should be done by Thursday, so we can present them on Friday!!

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Other than that, finals are almost over! The end is near! :)

Week Fifteen: April 29th - May 3rd

Residency - Children’s Residential Treatment Center - Carmen Elate - 6 hours

Again, some students are still working on their films! On Tuesday, I did a really brief demo on how to record sound through FlipAClip. One of the annoying features is that you can’t watch the animation while you record at the same time, which I expected some students might want. So, what I decided to do is AirDrop a copy of the animation to my laptop, so they have a second screen to look at while recording.

But now, I’ve collected a few of those who have finished with the audio and I’m so excited to see them all coming together, and they are as well! We’re aiming to have all the animations done by May 16th, so we can have a community screening at the Friday gathering.

Carmen and I discussed perhaps having a gallery of screenshots from the student’s animations with a separate blurb about it at the bottom, and to display it in the large community lounge. I love this idea since the screening will only last so long, but this will be nice as a visual to keep up for longer.

Carmen said that she did this last year with the student’s stop motion animations, and people loved it! So, I think we’re going to work with the students to perhaps do that and it’d be nice for visitors and parents to see if they can’t come to the screening.

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Total: 6 hours

Other than that, that’s all!

Here’s my Digital Illustration final that is done! (One week early YAY). We had to make a gif out of a few topics I chose Guilty pleasure being my guilty pleasure of playing online dress up games. I always loved them as a kid and I’ll sometimes still play them when I’m bored or need some inspiration :)

Week Fourteen: April 22nd - 26th

Shadowing - Little Earth Native Youth Arts Collective - Heidi Haferman - 1.5 hours

This Wednesday was my last day with NYAC and the Art in Community class. I helped take down some of the exhibitions and wrap up the equipment we used.

Such a great opportunity to be apart of an amazing collaboration! Hopefully, the next NYAC and Art in Community group will do this again! :)

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Residency - Children’s Residential Treatment Center - Carmen Elate - 6 hours

Students are still continuing to work on their projects and some are even finishing them up!

So exciting to see the student’s progress and joy on their faces when they see their finished work. I expect them to be completely done in about one week, so I’ll be giving a brief audio demo to the students on Tuesday.

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Total: 7.5 hours

Other than that, not much else to say! Just slowly finishing up finals! :) I’ll actually be hosting three panels at AniMinneapolis this year at the end of May, so I’ve been prepping some presentations for that in my spare time. Here’s a look at the presentation for a Character Design panel!

Week Thirteen: April 15th - 19th

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! :)

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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!

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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.

Week Twelve: April 8th - 12th

Shadowing - Little Earth Native Youth Arts Collective - Heidi Haferman - 2.5 hours

This week was our last week to officially work in groups and to share our process with each other! Everyone seems to have amazing work so far and I’m so excited to see it all completed and installed! Our show opening will be on Friday (April 18th) from 6pm - 8pm in the common area in front of Aud. 150! We’d love it if you could all make it out!! :)

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Residency - Children’s Residential Treatment Center - Carmen Elate - 4 hours

The students are still working on their stop-motions and some have even completed! I’ve gotten to see some amazing shorts so far, and I can’t wait to see them all put together!

I didn’t get to come in Wednesday because I was the students guest speaker for the Scholarship Luncheon this year, which was super fun!

Because of the snow, CRTC classes were cancelled on Thursday, so there was no Friday gathering to show the films. So, the students have until Monday to finish! So, excited to see the finish results!

I teach on my first lesson on Tuesday, so I’m getting all prepared for that as well! I’ll be presenting an Animation Collaboration project on the theme of safe space: the students will write a 3-4 lined poem (keeping in tune to the theme) and use an app called, FlipAClip, to digital animate to the poem! In the end, we’ll put the animations all together so it’s one giant poem with lots of voices, techniques, and styles! Here is a screenshot of the process from my example:

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Total Hours: 8.5

Other than that, that’s it! Here’s a glimpse of my final character design project about a girl and her pet Dino :)

Week Eleven: April 1st - 5th

Shadowing - Little Earth Native Youth Arts Collective - Heidi Haferman - 2.5 hours

Still working on our projects as we were given 2 hours for work time last week. We got to check in and share our progress so far.

My idea as of right now is to create an animation to a short poem about my experiences with safe spaces. Since I’ll be addressing the issue of migration of safe spaces, I’ll be using After Effects and Photoshop to create a claw machine animation.

While the poem is being read, a claw will be picking up a stuffed person (made to represent myself) and transporting it from scene to scene.

Here are some process shots as of right now!

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Residency - Children’s Residential Treatment Center - Carmen Elate - 0 hours

No hours as CRTC was on Spring Break :)

However, I’ve been working on and planning for my next lesson exploring different mediums and possibilities.

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Other than that, nothing else! Here’s a character I made for Digital Illustration :)

(Rosea, the first daughter from a wealthy, Gothic Romantic Vampire family. However, under certain circumstances, she becomes a bright, pastel magical girl. However, she’s scared to reveal her identity to her family/friends as they might not accept her and cast her out; not to mention Vampires are not keen of BRIGHT colors).

Week Ten: March 25th - 29th

Shadowing - Little Earth Native Youth Arts Collective - Heidi Haferman - 2.5 hours

We got into our groups and discussed the specifics of our collaborative project, including materials, timeline, locations, and scheduling. Also, we added two other group members to our project, which is exciting!

We checked out our exhibit space that was reserved, but I suggested that we try to create it in a more “cubical-like” area. This way, the installation itself can be a piece as well as creating the aesthetic of a safe space for viewers.

After some planning, each group went up to the front and shared their project to get feedback. Some issues that arose were concerns about is this really “collaboration”? We want to have respect for our mediums, and obviously don't want to force anybody to do something they don't want to, but the theme has to mingle between them; i.e. do they flow well together or is it just art on a wall? So, a lot of groups, including ours, will be working on that!

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Residency - Children’s Residential Treatment Center - Carmen Elate - 6 hours

Students are still working on stop-motion animations and they’re turning out so beautiful! So proud of them! I’m excited to see them all combined next Friday.

Also, I talked to Carmen a bit about the lesson plan and some ideas we could toss around. I explained different types of 2D animation, if we’ll do traditional or digital, and to keep in mind the timeline. I’ll definitely be working on an example piece soon and hopefully that’ll guide me more into the right direction because as of right now, my head’s a little scattered with ideas that aren't matching up together quite well.

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Total: 8.5 hours

Other than that, here are my Creature Designs for Character Design! We had to integrate two animals and a plant :)

Week Nine: March 18th - 22nd

Shadowing - Little Earth Native Youth Arts Collective - Heidi Haferman - 0 hours

No classes as MCAD is on Spring Break :)

However, I did create a Facebook messenger group which will be our preferred form of communication.

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Residency - El Colegio Charter School - Peter Glaser - 6 hours

Tuesday was my teaching day, which was super exciting, but nerve wrecking at the same time. I taught the first & second period physics classes the Animation Waveform Principle and how to construct their own flipbooks. Both Spanish and English languages were used for demos and instruction.

I made a brief introduction to how physics and animation relate and why animation needs physics in order to work. Then, I quickly went over what the 12 Basic Animation Principles are, but mostly going in-depth with the Wave Principle. I presented a powerpoint with animated gifs to give students a visual reference.

Then, I passed out pre-cut Canson Animation Paper, cardboard, and colored paper in which the students could put together their flipbooks. After that, I went over the wave principle demo.

For more detail on this lesson, visit the lesson plan page under my name :)

To be honest, the first class didn’t go too well as many factors got in the way (students were not paying attention and it was hard to puncture holes in the flipbooks, which had the students give up quickly. 100% my bad as I provided the wrong materials.)

However, the second class went WAAYYYYYYY better! I changed up the way I presented the demos and we used long nails to puncture holes, which was faster and easier so students had more time to animate. Although, not all of them did the wave formation, they made some pretty amazing animations, which I’m super happy with either way!

This Friday was my last day at El Colegio High School, so I’d like to thank Peter Glaser for inviting me to observe and teach his classroom, and El Colegio for hosting me and creating such a welcoming environment. It was such a great place for a residency!

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Residency - Children’s Residential Treatment Center - Carmen Elate - 6 hours

As my residency at El Colegio fades to an end, my residency at the CRTC is now starting up! I went in for the first time on Tuesday to observe Carmen’s Art classroom with both Unit A and Unit B students. I don’t even think I had time to take down notes because I was helping out and interacting with the students the whole time, which was a great experience!

I helped Carmen set-up the classroom IPads as the students are starting to learn how to create stop-motion animations through the Stop-Motion Pro App.

On Wednesday, I brought in one of the Media Center’s photo tripods (that has a horizontal arm feature) that the kids could use to shoot their animations from above. It’s super handy and gives the students a chance to use a piece of equipment they might not have otherwise used.

Also, I gave a small presentation of my work/animations so the students know where my expertise is, as well as some examples of my past stop-motion work.

Throughout the rest of the week, I got to see the student’s super awesome stop-motion animations, help students make clay figures/sets/shots, and just chill with them whether it be playing games or sketching.

I’m extremely excited to start this residency as I predict fun and exciting things to come! Carmen and I have already started talking about what might lesson might be. Thinking about possibly a collaborative animation project?? We’ll see!

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Total Hours: 12 hrs

Other than that, that’s it! I’d like to show off the final result of my Risograph Gig Posters!! They came out so fantastic~ Absolutely will be printing on the riso again once I get the chance!

Week Eight: March 11th - 15th

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!

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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!

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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!

Week Seven: March 4th - 8th

Shadowing - Little Earth Native Youth Arts Collective - Heidi Haferman - 2.5 hours

We started off the week with conjoining the NYAC group and MCAD Art in Community class, which was super exciting! It was great to see NYAC students interacting with MCAD students and vice versa. Genevieve De leon, the Art in Community visiting faculty, had us start off with introductions as we sat around in a huge circle in the CC.

Then, we began thinking about the concept of “place: where we are” and brainstorming what that might mean to us. Some of the ideas that were thrown out were views of nearby (within MCAD campus), expanded out (links between MCAD and Little Earth), or global (the world/galaxy) places. Another concept that was thrown out was the place of imagination or internal existence - we might be in a literal place, but our minds can venture off to another place that may not exist physically.

We made custom maps on what we thought about place, so two NYAC students, an MCAD student, and I customized this huge map of Minneapolis with our jumping off point being MCAD in the middle.

Lastly, we had a guest speaker that uses the idea of place as his main concept in his work, which I think really inspired us to think more about place for our future group project.

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Residency - El Colegio Charter School - Peter Glaser - 6 hours

Not much going on, just the same routine for the week! Students are learning about the Law of Conservation, which I actually remember from high school physics! So, I was able to help out a lot with the math problems that students had. Gave me an opportunity to get one-on-one with them too.  

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TOTAL HOURS: 8.5 hrs

That’s about it to report this week! Here are some animal character designs I made for Character Design~

Week Six: Feb. 25th - 29th

Shadowing - Little Earth Native Youth Arts Collective - Heidi Haferman - 3 hours

Courtney, Eleni, and I were able to go over to Little Earth Native Youth Arts Program with Heidi and meet Joe and the other students on Wednesday.

Everyone was extremely nice, welcoming, and the students are so much fun! We did some quick ice-breakers, introduced ourselves, and talked about certain expectations we have at MCAD and how the group would like to carry that into the Art in Community class.

Also, we got to meet Genevieve, who is absolutely amazing! She’s so bubbly and full of positive energy, so I’m excited to work with her and her class this coming up Wednesday.

I had a fun time, so I’m excited to continue with this shadowing. Thanks to Heidi for taking us to Little Earth and dropping us off at our houses: that was extremely kind of her!!

Also, my fav student right now is Mr. Lera :) a shame that I won’t get to see him again for awhile :(

Photo creds to Leon (Courtney’s son : ) )

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Residency - El Colegio Charter School - Peter Glaser - 6 hours

So, coming up into this last week, it’s pretty much a routine that I’ve gotten down! Tuesdays are always worksheet notes with work time, and Fridays are notebook checks/extra help time. I think when I first started at El Colegio I was a little lost in the lessons as I was just kind of coming in halfway through. However, as we’ve started a new lesson, I was able to follow along and actually help a few students with individual help. It’s helping me become more acquainted with the students and vice versa!

Also, there were no classes on Friday as there were scheduled parent/teacher conferences.

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TOTAL HOURS: 9 hrs

Other than that, that’s it! March is already here, and it’s almost going to be time to start planning my lesson for El Colegio and start my second residency at the Children’s Residential Treatment Center. Where does the time go? :’)

Here’s a character I made for Character Design where we had to transport a character through three different time periods. I choose 1500’s, Victorian Era, and distant future.

Week Five: Feb. 18th - 22nd

Little Earth Natives Youth Arts Collective - Heidi Haferman - 0.5 hours (3 hr cancellation)

Unfortunately, due to the snowstorm on Wednesday morning, our meeting with the students was sadly cancelled :( However, Heidi, Eleni, Courtney, and I got together on Tuesday @ 12:30pm to talk about brainstorming topics, thinking of an icebreaker activity, and the schedule after the first two meetings.

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El Colegio - Peter Glaser - 6 hours

I have finally been able to make it over to El Colegio to start my residency there! I was able to see Peter’s teaching style in action as well as the student’s work.

So, some of my observations:

• The first physics class has less students but more speaks more in Spanish whereas the second class has more students and speaks more in English. However, each class has their own form of Spanglish (integration of both English to Spanish).

• Some students do come in late, so I need to take that into consideration with my lesson. Knowing how to catch these students up and not excluding them.

• Classes are predominantly male - not an issue, just interesting!

• There is no technology within the classroom (students don’t have laptops) however, Peter does have an Elmo and Casio that he uses to teach, which I could use for my lesson as well. But, it’s important that I don’t stick solely on that equipment. The students are more engaged through traditional mediums.

• Tuesdays are lectures and Fridays are more for grading, individual help, and tutoring.

Also, I like how Peter rewards students for thinking outside of the box and encourages students, even if they get the answer wrong. I think that’s essential to a student’s learning experience and helps them become more enthusiastic, especially when learning difficult concepts.

Peter encouraged me to walk around and help other students out with organizing their notebooks. I saw that they didn’t really need too much help as they were very engaged in their work, which is great!

I got to help review some key terms with a student who could speak Spanish, but couldn’t read it. That was most enjoyable as I got to practice my Spanish, he got to practice his, and I got to see what the students were learning.

The students are incredibly enjoyable, fun, and engaging, so I’m so excited to start developing my lesson plan!

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TOTAL HOURS: 9.5 hrs

That’s all I have! Currently stressing about internships and crossing my fingers as I hope I get one out-of-state. For now, here’s a pattern design I used as an in-class assignment for Digital Illustration - inspired from Valentine’s Day!

Week Four: Feb. 9th-16th

Little Earth Natives Youth Arts Collective - Heidi Haferman - 0.0 hours

We will be meeting this Tuesday at 12:30pm before going to Little Earth Wednesday at 5pm. Heidi, Eleni, Courtney, and I will be discussing possible points of college experiences to talk about for the students.

Heidi informs us, “our students bring equal knowledge to the table; what they lack is the opportunity to navigate a college experience. They are the experts on their community, and we want this collaboration to empower them to advocate for their concerns, while also having an authentic college experience”

I’ll be brainstorming and writing out some ideas I might have before Tuesday.

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El Colegio High School - Peter Glaser - 0.0 hours

I’ll be starting at El Colegio this Tuesday - kind of nervous, but excited! I’ll be taking a bus route to El Colegio in the meantime because of weather.

Peter sent me his teaching sequences, included with the standard codes. I took a look through it to re-familiarize myself to the terms and vocabulary used in physics. Also, I took some time to look at articles about the integration of physics and animation to see if I could find more information I didn’t already know.

Here are some of the articles I plan to come back to:

https://thousandmilessite.in/science-behind-animation/

https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/science_nation/physicsanimation.jsp

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Other than that, that’s all I’ve got! Here’s a WIP of a character design assignment where we have to replicate different animation style - it’s not as easy as it looks!

Week Three: February 4th - 10th

Little Earth Natives Youth Arts Collective - Heidi Haferman - 0.5 hour

Heidi recommended that I meet up with Courtney to kind of catch up with each other on the plans for February 20th and 27th. I met with Courtney on Friday @ 12:30 pm and we discussed some of the topics/prompts that Heidi emailed to us to help students get an idea of what starting at MCAD is like:  

• how did your idea or image of college life compare to the reality?

• what have you done or learned that you are most proud of?

• what would your dream job be, after graduating?

• what is your definition of community art?

Courtney and I briefly discussed the struggles we went through like pronouns, culture/identity, and the intimidation of MCAD as an institution.

We weren’t able to talk too much as we had to part ways quickly, but we’re going to try to meet up again to brainstorm more about these questions and come up with an ice breaker activity!

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El Colegio High School - Peter Glaser - 1.45 hours

On Saturday, I was able to meet up with Peter Glaser, who teaches science at El Colegio, at Dunn Bros for coffee. We were able to get the schedule confirmed:

I will be at El Colegio on Tuesdays from 8:55 am - 11:30 am & Fridays 8:55 am - 11:24 am.

(Peter advised me to call on Monday to see the status of the BG check, so I’m not sure what week I’ll be able to start as of now).

Even though he teaches Physical Science, Chemistry, and Biology, I will only be present in the Physical Science classroom as I feel that physics and animation go hand-in-hand, especially lessons about the illusion of movement, gravity, and color.

I got to know a lot about Peter’s teaching style, which was quite refreshing. He doesn’t give out multiple question tests or exams - to test the students’ learning, he has them make their own questions for each topic. He does “Do-It Now” (or bell-ringer) problems after the student’s get settled after the bell. Repetition and patience are the main points in his teaching style as students learn better when information is given to them repeatedly and allowing students time to think about questions. Also, not giving them the answer outright, but leading them to the answer instead.

Also, Peter gave me lots of advice going forward in my own lessons and classroom teaching. He says to not be afraid to crack jokes and have students laugh. Laughter in a classroom makes a happy classroom. Also, the concept of scaffolding makes it easier for students to understand hard lessons. Scaffolding is the breakdown of concepts to where it’s taught in a “stair-step” style. The lowest stair-step is tying what you’re teaching to what they already know, then go from there. In example, tying the concept animation to animation they already are exposed to whether it be Disney movies, favorite video games, or main-stream apps.

The biggest piece of advice was to remind myself that, even though the students look like adults and (sometimes) act like adults, that they are still children - but not to treat them like children. Children are slower at thinking and do dumb things sometimes, but not to take it personally. There has to be a level of patience and respect for all.

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TOTAL HOURS: 1.95 hr

Other than that, that’s all I’ve got! Seems as though I have dates in set for my shadowing and two residencies. For now, have some sketches I did for my Digital Illustration class: We’re making playing cards with a limited color palette. I chose the theme of Holidays!

Week Two: January 28th - February 2nd

Shadowing - Little Earth Native Youth Arts Collective - Heidi Haferman - 0.5 hours

On Thursday, I met up with Heidi Haferman to talk about scheduling and some events coming up that would be perfect for shadowing. Heidi expressed how their students will be doing something new this semester. They’ll be pairing up with the Art in Community class to teach with Little Earth. These meetings next week will be a setup and discussion of the students and ideas.

The meetings will be February 20th and 27th from 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm. The classes will be conducted starting March 6th, which I’m invited to participate in.

I’ve told Heidi that I’ve taken the Art in Community class as well, so I know where those students are coming from and what are the main ideas of working on a community project. The topic of race and culture was a big discussion in our class, for sure. We expressed a lot of who does an artist integrate themselves within a culture that they are not apart of? For example, I’m passionate about the LGBTQ+ community, but I’m not LBTQ+ myself. It’s the importance of power/hierarchy, relation, and communication with your students that will get you on an equal level. 

Also, we discussed ideas that I could bring to the table with the Little Earth students, and I mentioned my work with the “Students Against Gun Violence” Club and “March for Our Lives” last year. She was very interested in this as her students are passionate about the end of gun violence in Native communities.

Heidi gave me a bit of thinking to do before the first few meetings:

She offered for me to develop an artsy ice breaker game for me to get to know the students and vice versa. I’ll definitely develop this as it’s a really fun idea and opportunity! 

Also, she would love for me to bring my ideas/comments into light as a lot of these students are preparing for college courses. Prompting: What were some of my concerns and fears coming to MCAD? Did I learn anything I didn’t know before? What is hard to integrate yourself into the art culture? If so, how did you conquer it?

I’ll definitely be brainstorming and reviewing these concepts leading up to February 20th.

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Residency - El Colegio Charter School - Peter Glaser - 0.0 hours

Still need to get into contact with Peter Glaser since I’ve filled out the BG check! Still haven’t received a receipted email, so I’m assuming it’s still getting processed. Hopefully, we can get in contact soon!

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TOTAL HOURS: 0.5 hr

Other than that, other classes are going fine! Here’s a first completed project from Digital Illustration: A self-portrait made in Illustrator (first time using Illustrator too!)

Week One: January 21-15

Residency - Children’s Residential Treatment Center - Carmen Elate - 0.5 hours

On Tuesday, I went to the Children’s Residential Treatment Center (which, is right around the corner from my apartment, so it’s super convenient!). The center/classrooms are, surprisingly, very small and closed in, so that was good to note. I met with Carmen Elate, who is such a joy to be around! We discussed our schedules together and see what would line up. We decided that Spring break would be a good day to start.

I’ll be starting that Spring Break week from 12:30 pm - 2:30pm. After SB, I’ll only be doing Wednesdays and Fridays from 12:30 pm - 2:30pm.

I asked questions about the group and any triggers I should avoid since most of the students struggle with mental illnesses. There are two separate groups that have different schedules: Unit A and Unit B. There really isn’t a different between them besides the number of students in them. Carmen advised me that I’ll learn the triggers as a go along, but to always keep in mind to have a filter when I communicate. Also, she mentioned that a lot of students will need breaks between lessons, as some medications the students take can make them sleepy/mental exhausted. There may be some students who fall asleep or become sleepy while I teach, but to not take it personally.

Carmen is super excited as they are now just starting to be incorporate technology into their lessons, starting with photography and stop-motion animation. She’s ecstatic at the possibility I might be teaching the students animation through Photoshop.

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Residency - El Colegio High School - Peter Glaser - 0.5 hours

On Friday, I went over to El Colegio to fill out an essential background check. Again, another smaller school, but so beautiful and colorful! For not having an art education course, the school seems to have lots of artwork and colorful interiors with murals and pictures!

Unfortunately, Peter Glaser was not in due to being sick, so I wasn’t able to meet him. However, I was able to meet the friendly office staff, who are very excited to have a teaching artist again. Also, the staff there are both English and Spanish speakers. The background was easy to fill out and did have a $25 cost.

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Shadow -Little Earth Native Youth Arts Collective - Heidi Haferman - 0 hours

Got a reply from Heidi Haferman from the Little Earth Native Youth Arts Collective! I will be meeting with her next Thursday at noon.

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TOTAL HOURS: 1 hr

Other than that, enjoy some illustrative stickers I made for the Latinex Unides club for the Club Fair!