Community Engaged Art
When thinking of the Freedom House in the early stages of my creative process, I knew I wanted to make a piece that the residents could relate to and find comfort in, but that also aligned with the core values of the organization. Throughout my time volunteering and getting to know what the Freedom House
After working with Freedom House, I have realized the importance of promoting non-profit organizations. As a design major, I realized how difficult it is to bring art to a facility that has such a wide variety of needs. Freedom House needed much more than promotional material—they needed art on the walls to make their home
When I visited Freedom House I think the part that hit me was that these people didn’t choose to be in this position, and it was due to circumstances that were out of their control. The things life throws our way can just take us off the path we intended to follow. Being homeless was
This semester my intermediate printmaking class volunteered at Freedom House, a shelter that provides homeless families with shelter, food, and care. When touring, we recognized that Freedom House needed help with adding some art to their shared spaces and rooms. I believe that the introduction of art to this space would make it feel more
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
My experience working with the Freedom House thus far has been overall positive. It really made me think about the role that art and design can play in everyday spaces. I enjoyed being able to dovetail serving the Freedom House with making art because it showed me firsthand how art should be accessible to everybody.
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
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
