Community Engaged Art
In Pippa Biddle’s article, she discusses the issues that arise when white people travel to developing countries to volunteer. While it is helpful to dedicate time and effort for causes, but as she states towards the end, it is better to provide resources and skilled people for these types of tasks. Another positive would be
The article by Pippa Biddle is very inspiring because she really went out of her way to help other people from Tanzania and the Dominican Republic. She said that when she went to the Dominican Republic she struggled to communicate with the staff and children because she barely spoke Spanish. But even though she struggled
I found this article to be incredibly eye opening in how it pointed out a totally new perspective on volunteering that I never would have thought of previously. The part that I found to be most thought provoking was the idea of the “white savior complex”. We are taught from a young age, as in
Just like Pippa Biddle, I have been on a few different service trips abroad. Biddle stated that her being there was almost the same as her not. I agree that if you show up unprepared and unskilled in what you are there to accomplish, it is better to send over the funds instead. If someone
OBJECTIVE For this piece I set out hoping to create a piece that I felt resonated with what Freedom House is trying to accomplish. Freedom House is a homeless shelter in Brown County Wisconsin that offers homeless families living quarters and provides resources to to equip families with the resources necessary to become and
This semester, our intermediate printmaking class worked with the non-profit organization, Freedom House. Freedom House is a homeless shelter for families located in Green Bay. Our final project in printmaking was to make a print that benefits Freedom House in some way. Freedom House stressed a need for promotional products for their annual Gallery of
In my third visit I went into Freedom House expecting to strictly do general labor again. I already had a sketch ready to come to fruition for Freedom House, so I was not looking for creative inspiration as I was during this last visit. For the first half of our visit we cleaned the bathrooms
Freedom house visit (3/1). With my second freedom house visit I went in acknowledging the fact that I more than likely was not going to be creating any art for them this time around. I wanted to see what they needed help most with, which this time around was general labor. With Lydia gone on
People can or have written novels about their creative process so I will try and summarize the main points of mine. I feel that I don’t fully understand or have control over my creative process at this point in time in my life. When looking back on projects I have made, I have no idea
My creative process includes thinking of a topic, gathering material and information, brainstorming, then developing my idea. I generate ideas by being aware of the world around me. Reading the news not only allows me to become aware but I then shape an opinion on what’s going on in the world and enjoy making work
