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.
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!
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!)
