Tag: digital youth storyteller’s workshop
Student Writing: “When I draw I feel so focused….” by Amaya Smith
I went trick or treating for my birthday. I dressed up as a zombie. All of my skin was peeling. I took so many pictures. We were trick or treating for about three to four hours. I had a cake. It has a balloon, ghost, whipped cream icing, and it had a little witch on it.
When I draw I feel so focused. I learn from art. When we analyze art I can see what I want to see.
–Amaya Smith from Personal Histories: Basquiat and the Bayou
Digital Youth Storytellers: Video Poetry
In Spring 2014, Big Class and NOVAC came together to create the Video Poetry workshop. Students learned about cinematography, editing, and visual language. Together with local filmmakers, they created images mapped to poetry and back again. This is a showcase of their work.
Basquiat on the Bayou + Digital Storytellers Youth Media Project
The second Digital Youth Storytellers workshop was Personal Histories: Basquiat and the Bayou. On six Saturdays in November and December of 2014, students from around New Orleans met at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art to engage with the Basquiat and the Bayou exhibition as part of the Prospect.3 biennial. They learned about how artist Jean-Michel Basquiat wove personal and collective histories into his paintings. Using Basquiat’s unique approach as inspiration, the students told stories and developed iconography that they presented in their own collages and paintings, using them to tell personal histories on video and through writing.
Student Writing: “When I draw I feel so focused….” by Amaya Smith
I went trick or treating for my birthday. I dressed up as a zombie. All of my skin was peeling. I took so many pictures. We were trick or treating for about three to four hours. I had a cake. It has a balloon, ghost, whipped cream icing, and it had a little witch on it.
When I draw I feel so focused. I learn from art. When we analyze art I can see what I want to see.
–Amaya Smith from Personal Histories: Basquiat and the Bayou
Digital Youth Storytellers: Video Poetry
In Spring 2014, Big Class and NOVAC came together to create the Video Poetry workshop. Students learned about cinematography, editing, and visual language. Together with local filmmakers, they created images mapped to poetry and back again. This is a showcase of their work.
Basquiat on the Bayou + Digital Storytellers Youth Media Project
The second Digital Youth Storytellers workshop was Personal Histories: Basquiat and the Bayou. On six Saturdays in November and December of 2014, students from around New Orleans met at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art to engage with the Basquiat and the Bayou exhibition as part of the Prospect.3 biennial. They learned about how artist Jean-Michel Basquiat wove personal and collective histories into his paintings. Using Basquiat’s unique approach as inspiration, the students told stories and developed iconography that they presented in their own collages and paintings, using them to tell personal histories on video and through writing.
