Gregory Rose- MCTC- Residency- 4.25hrs
John Akre- Children's Museum- Shadow- 3hrs
Last week I had talked to Gregory and told him that this week would sadly be my last at MCTC. It has been such an amazing experience being a teaching artist at MCTC and Gregory has helped me grow tremendously as a teacher. I’ve come to think of the students as my own and have loved watching their work develop. Every one of them put in a lot of effort and grew as an artist this semester. Some of them even will be continuing forward into art making degrees. Gregory was wonderful and brought in donuts for my last day. He had told the students on Wednesday that today would be my last in the class. We had a really great critique ate donuts and talked about the student’s finals. Some of the students reached out to me and thanked me for teaching and being a part of the class. It melted my heart they had all been so wonderful! I said goodbye to all the students and told them thank you for a wonderful semester and that it was amazing being a teaching artist in the class. This week I also went to the Children’s Museum. I helped John with another animation. This one was space themed. The camera was set in the ceiling so that the kids could crawl around on the ground and look like they were flying or floating in space. It was a lot of fun and all the kids that participated really got in to it. Me and one of the other helpers made some more props for the animation. I made some wrist bands that had little screens on them that made it look like you were talking to aliens and a strange space pirate ship. Both kids and volunteers had a huge amount of fun with this piece.