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.
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.
TOTAL HOURS: 8.5 hrs
That’s about it to report this week! Here are some animal character designs I made for Character Design~
