Residency-Juxtaposition Arts-Leslie-3hrs
Today was nice. I was able to talk with some of the students today before session started. As the students were trickling in we had a fruitful conversation about global warming and how money can’t buy us happiness, however we were able to come up with a healthy agreement that money could buy happiness, but only to an extent.
I enjoy that Juxta is a space where we can have real conversations, it just fills me up with joy and I’m happy they feel safe enough to speak on their opinions and everyone respect and listen to each other.
After session officially started the students started back up on their Gordon Parks Drawings that they were introduced to on Saturday. Since I don’t go to Juxta on Saturdays, I missed the intro and demo to the lesson. But coming in it was nice to see how far everyone got. The students are required to read a little article about Gordon Parks and what his photography consisted of since they were going to be using his pictures in order to draw from.