Community Engaged Art
Sarah and I went to Freedom House to meet with Lydia about possible design projects for their events. Since Lydia was having a meeting at 10 we spent the first half of our visit cleaning the bathrooms. Emerson and Noah also made it and basically did the same thing, but we split into two teams
During my second visit to Freedom House, Sarah and I went to help with whatever tasks they wanted us to do. We ended up getting to clean the dining room. It was probably the most thorough job I’ve ever done cleaning a dining room. In the hectic swamp that is my on-campus home, I don’t
I think the Freedom House is a wonderful place that does something that Brown County really has a need for. Homelessness is something that I knew was in the area but something easily forgotten because of how invisible it is here. What they’re providing for families is a chance to start fresh and take stress
Before my third visit to the Freedom House, I wanted to have a few ideas in my head of some projects I might want to pursue. I was hoping this trip would help me to determine what direction I wanted to go in. I wrote out a few ideas in my sketchbook and was excited
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
Since our first visit to the Freedom House as a class, I found that it had been on my mind a lot more than I expected. I realized how important the work that they do is to the community and I was eager to help. My expectations for our next visit on March 1st were
For this visit to Freedom House I did not tell Lydia what I wanted to work on, rather I thought she would let me do whatever they were most in need of at the time. There for I expected to be doing some housekeeping work throughout the building. I was hoping to see some of
I am really impressed with how much work freedom house does for the homeless community. I was in awe by all the services and support they provide families while being a non-profit relying on donation to stay afloat. It sounds like the fundraiser thats coming up in the next couple months is a really big
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
The Freedom House is resource for homeless families in Green Bay that provides services such as housing, meals, and classes to help those in need get back on their feet. The work that they do looks at the bigger picture of poverty and offers tools to help people break out of the cycle, rather than
