Project Description
In this residency, students learn how to focus and tune into the frequency of their own creative voice. Students will explore free writing, collage and practical strategies to help bring their ideas to life. Learning to harness and combine these artistic and practical tools can help them produce interesting, quality work in school and beyond.
Final Product
Each student will walk away with a pop-up Creation Station that holds space for their budding creativity (see examples above). They will also learn a strategy that demonstrates how to break big ideas down into manageable steps in a fun way and learn a free writing technique to connect to their creative voice.
Learning Outcomes
- Students will learn to focus creatively.
- Students will learn to hear and respect their own creative voice.
- Students will learn to organize their big ideas and create an engaging step-by-step plan. This is helpful to ground intangible creative projects and can also be of great benefit to any other large academic assignment.
Suggested Grades
- 4th-12th grade
Pricing Breakdown
- 4 visits at 45 minutes each
- Prep hours: 3 hours per classroom
- Materials: $1.30 per student
- Travel from Eugene
Meet the Artist
Why I teach art:
“To create good art and good lives, I believe we can start where we are with what we have. I look forward to helping teachers and students connect to their creative selves in an empowered way that delights them. For seven years prior to my emergence as a self-taught artist, creativity and compassion were the foundation from which I taught middle school language arts and US History. In 2007, I was honored with a student nominated Local Teacher of The Year award. From 2008-2023, I exhibited at length in the world class cities of Chicago, Eugene, and Sedona with my two full length, immersive art and writing experiences.
Before being donated to the clinic waiting room of HIV Alliance here in Eugene, my second collection which honors the resiliency of the human spirit, The Soul Success Medals for Humanity, was featured on the cover of Sedona’s Red Rock News. My first collection, Aorta Transformata: an artistic depiction of the heart through openness, love, death, rebirth and the ability to love again exhibited in Chicago from 2008-2011 where the then Mindful Metropolis, stated it “resonates on a universal plane”.
—Arianne (Air) Taylor
