Entry # 8

I think students get more involved and realize how art takes a role in the environment, community and world around them when they are involved with collaborative art making. I also think students who work together bounce ideas off eachother and expand eachothers creativity much better. When teachers are involved with their students work and creating along with them, they are viewed on a different level from the students. I think this begins a new type of relationship between the teacher and students. Service learning projects can be incorportated in curriculum mulitple ways, whether its for a community event, and the students create flyers or t shirts, etc. Or students actually get together and work on a mural, a window painting for the community or whatever it may be as long as the students are creating art that involves the community or gets their art out there and seen by the community it will impact their experience in art and help broaden their view of art. I helped paint a little boy and girl's room for habitat for hummanity for an art class. We designed murals on their walls as a group and split up drew the images up and transferred them to the walls, and then painted them for the kids. We based the designs off their interests. This was an amazing experience, I felt like I was going to impact their life, and it was impacting mine at the same time. Very positive experience. I also was involved in a community mural, we took areas of the town that were victim to graffti and created a mural that would activate the space and catch community members eyes as well as incorportate their culture. This was very rewarding as well, and I felt important for being a part of this. I think a project of this type would be fun and interesting for students to do. There would be certain days we went as a class to work during class time and others there would be certain days that they could come like a saturday from this time to this time and work to make more progress. It would be a lot of fun, and we could invite members of the community to come work along with us.