The Youth Participants

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Amere




Larry


Carmen


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Isiah

Youth Art Board Curriculum - General Outline by Ray

Additional Dates TBD

Week 1 – 9/30
Project Overview

Week 2 – 10/7
Question Development/Brainstorm
Select Potential Interviews
Interview format

Week 3 – 10/21
Question Refinement
Interview Practice
Determine Roles

Week 4 – 10/28
Workshop
First Interview Practice

Week 5 – 11/4
Workshop
Teaching Artist Interviews
Exhibiting Artist Interviews

Week 6 – 11/11
Workshop
Exhibiting Artist Interviews

Week 7 – 11/18
Additional Interviews
Editing

Week 8 – 12/2
Editing

Workshop 1: Interview examples + New Zealand Artists

We talked about the 2 artist interviews: Marisa Willoughby and Justin Bua

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr7hQrRO29o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nhxqbfLmYk

The visiting artists from New Zealand are:
Daniel du Bern and Wayne Youle

- Helga

Workshop 1

The participants answered 3 questions. Those questions we would like to ask again at the end of the project and see how the students answer then:

Q 1: Why do you think it is important to document artists and their work?
Answers:
- promote their work
- give more background about the artist
- provide more info that you can't get from just looking
- it's a document of history that can be shared and passed down
- the interview cold give the art center a more special collection
- comparing an American artist's art to an artist from New Zealand show the cultural differences
- to see how they think
Q 2: What can these interviews achieve?
Answers:
- we could show how an artist thinks and progresses through their artwork
- increase the number of visitors to the art center
- audiences perspectives will change on art
- it can be used as a source, memory
- to learn about thow art is combined
- how they practice their art
Q 3: What do you personally wnt to accomplish?
- I get the chance to experience my first interview
- I gain more knowledge about the artist as a person
- I get the chance to meet someone from New Zealand
- learn to use the equipment
- learn how to edit on the computer
- meet new artists that are from New Zealand
- communication skills
- meet new people

-Helga

Workshop 1

Today Helga and I had a successful workshop at HPAC with 8 students. We shared our powerpoint and did some activities with the students. In the powerpoint we discussed the project and why it is important. We also talked about journalism and how to design and conduct an interview. Then we played two examples of artist interviews and asked the students what they thought about them.

Everyone was really excited and enthusiastic about sharing their opinions on the examples. The students liked when the interview had music playing in the background and when the camera was closer to the artist. Lastly, we practiced interviewing each other with the questions the students came up with last week.

Helga took some pictures of the students which will be posted. For next week we will learn how to set up and work with video and recording equipment, and the students will practice interviewing a teaching artist from HPAC. Also we talked about getting the students involved with the blog.

-Becca

Questions from the Youth Art Board, with edits

What inspires you to make art?
What’s your inspiration outside of art?
What type of art do you work with?
What is your preferred medium? Explain your process.
Why did you become an artist?
What does art mean to you? How do you define your art?
How does your art reflect you?
What would your life be like without art?
Who is your role model and when did you discover them?
What motivates you to keep making art?
What kind of music do you listen to?
Why did you become interested in art?
What was your first piece of art in an exhibition?
How did you get your first art exhibition? Explain the process.

Workshop 1 Outline

This is what Helga and I have outlined for the YAB meeting October 21

I. Discuss the project

II. Discuss the importance of documenting artists and artwork

III. Discuss ideas behind journalism and interviewing

IV. Try to show an example of an interview

V. Go over the group's interview questions, add more to them, etc.

VI. Practice interviewing each other in groups of 2, using the questions already created and new ones

There is definitely room for more activities and discussion. Let me know what you all think!

-Becca