art/vision/voice - Maryland Institute College of Art

young mothers revealed high
aspirations for their children, using
imagery showing a recognition of their
own strength and responsibility.
case study: california state university, monterey bay 91
duane I worked with youth by showing them basic scanning, digital
photography, and Photoshop skills. By showing them simple
techniques, we were able to show them how to create digital art.
The obstacles we faced as a class were the inconsistency of
attendance on the part of the youth. I think the hardest thing to
accomplish was building trust to allow the kids to share their stories
of growing up in the environments they do. I felt a responsibility
that what we created together would need to personally connect
to them through their own life experiences.
It was important to me to get a feel for their experiences so we
could create a powerful digital art piece. Part of the project was to
show them the importance of commitment from the beginning
to the end of a project. Those who stuck it out felt it was “their”
project, which was powerful to see.
From the beginning it was important to find a connection between the
vision of the youth and the vision of the university art students.
anna I remember that the [high school students] requested that the
imagery to be used be beautiful. We used a variety of landscapes for
their natural beauty, some of them fiery, others cool and lush. These
physical states of the landscapes also corresponded to some of
the emotions that the students wrote about when they visited us in
the [csumb] computer lab.