Community Engaged Art
Over the semester, I didn’t really find that working with Freedom House, a local homeless shelter, necessarily changed the work that I made for the final project. However, I have a collection of finished images and sketches on my computer, so I searched around for what I thought would be best to give to Freedom
For the fourth “visit” for Freedom House, I worked on screenprinting my prints for the final project. I have been able to get a lot done up until now, even being able to print over spring break to get ahead. I had a lot of fun bringing along a friend of mine to assist me
Description To finish Art 330 on a strong note, I plan on having essentially three different prints to give to Freedom House, either to give to the residents there or for their gallery of hope. The first two prints will be a screenprinted collage I made of Joseph Kittinger skydiving from the stratosphere combined with
For my third visit to Freedom House, we did a little bit of both hands-on and planning work. After we did some cleaning in the dining room and bathrooms, we met with Lydia to discuss upcoming possibilities for Freedom House and their Gallery of Hope. We figured out that they wanted to create a new
Before we visited Freedom House for the second time, I expected that we were going to mostly focus on figuring out what kind of art we were going to create for them, causing me to not really prepare for the visit. While we did look around for different areas we could create art for, we
Usually my creative process starts from getting inspiration of some sort, whether it be from a poster, song, movie or photo. It’s usually whatever is inspiring me at the time that influences my work, since I tend to go through phases of what artists and creators are particularly inspiring me. I also tend to generate
Overall, my impression of Freedom House was that it was a place with friendly workers and a great mission. However, I did recognize some of their needs and struggles pretty quickly, as to it being understaffed and some of the rooms needing renovation or redecoration. Our visit really helped me to realize how big homelessness
