During this project my critique group was Nicole and Natasha. I really liked this critique group because I feel like we could give each other good, honest feed back on all of our pieces and we were all friends so we understood that the harsher critique was not intended to be mean, but rather to be constructive.
For this project I made a spray painted stencil of a child at his desk with spirals of creativity flowing out of his head with different types of arts program objects in them. Over the arts objects and creativity spirals there is a black canceled symbol to represent that the schools are not allowing any creativity and freedom when they cancel the programs. For this project I also made an alternate art piece. My alternate art piece was a long four foot bored that was painted white with melted crayons glued to it. On one side of the bored there is crayons in the colors of the rainbow melted. I let those crayons do what ever they wanted to do, they would melt and then splatter onto the opposite side. Those colors had freedom and could do what they wanted to. The other half of the bored had only green crayons. This side represented the government. They only care about money, not about what programs schools would have to cut. This side has pennies raining down and at the bottom there is a jar. The jar has one old penny inside of it, the individual penny is representing how the schools budgets are being cut and how the schools have an extremely limited amount of money to spent directly on those programs. Through out this project I have learned a lot about schools funding, what priorities a school has, common core class material being integrated into other programs, and common core classes.
I think that my alternate art piece turned out simple but amazing. Everyone that walked by, even if they didn't say for an explanation, took a good look at it. When I was explaining the meaning behind the piece everyone understood it and loved it! Including the little kids that were there! It felt good to see that everyone enjoyed it so much and that everyone understood the meaning of the piece.
I feel that my biggest struggle during this project was my stencil. I liked the overall idea and concept, but I felt that the piece was lacking color. I liked how I used the three dimensional in the piece, but I personally don't think that it was enough.
I think that I did a good job with my professionalism on the day of exhibition and throughout the project I feel like I worked hard. Something that I think helped me along the project was that I really believed in my topic and I always found new information about it to be interesting. I think one thing that I would like to be able to improve on my time management. I think that if I had used my time more wisely I probably would have had a better stencil and it would have turned out how I would have liked it to.
If I could change anything about this project I would have loved to have more time for this project. I feel like the amount of time that we were given was almost enough. I could have used another week, maybe even another week and a half.
For this project I made a spray painted stencil of a child at his desk with spirals of creativity flowing out of his head with different types of arts program objects in them. Over the arts objects and creativity spirals there is a black canceled symbol to represent that the schools are not allowing any creativity and freedom when they cancel the programs. For this project I also made an alternate art piece. My alternate art piece was a long four foot bored that was painted white with melted crayons glued to it. On one side of the bored there is crayons in the colors of the rainbow melted. I let those crayons do what ever they wanted to do, they would melt and then splatter onto the opposite side. Those colors had freedom and could do what they wanted to. The other half of the bored had only green crayons. This side represented the government. They only care about money, not about what programs schools would have to cut. This side has pennies raining down and at the bottom there is a jar. The jar has one old penny inside of it, the individual penny is representing how the schools budgets are being cut and how the schools have an extremely limited amount of money to spent directly on those programs. Through out this project I have learned a lot about schools funding, what priorities a school has, common core class material being integrated into other programs, and common core classes.
I think that my alternate art piece turned out simple but amazing. Everyone that walked by, even if they didn't say for an explanation, took a good look at it. When I was explaining the meaning behind the piece everyone understood it and loved it! Including the little kids that were there! It felt good to see that everyone enjoyed it so much and that everyone understood the meaning of the piece.
I feel that my biggest struggle during this project was my stencil. I liked the overall idea and concept, but I felt that the piece was lacking color. I liked how I used the three dimensional in the piece, but I personally don't think that it was enough.
I think that I did a good job with my professionalism on the day of exhibition and throughout the project I feel like I worked hard. Something that I think helped me along the project was that I really believed in my topic and I always found new information about it to be interesting. I think one thing that I would like to be able to improve on my time management. I think that if I had used my time more wisely I probably would have had a better stencil and it would have turned out how I would have liked it to.
If I could change anything about this project I would have loved to have more time for this project. I feel like the amount of time that we were given was almost enough. I could have used another week, maybe even another week and a half.