My name is Renea Garilov Stewart. I grew up on the East Coast in Maryland, then Connecticut. I attended Brien McMahon high school in Connecticut, but finished high school at Westlake high school in Southern California. I then obtained an Associates degree in Liberal Arts from Moorpark Community College, after attending Cambridge through an honors program through C.I.E. (Center for International Education). If I were an artistʻs tool I would be an audio recorder, because without a voice there is no story.
Homo sapiens are much more alike than different. The DNA of every human being alive today is 99.9% the same to anybody living on earth.(Smithsonian 2020). This research project took a deep dive into the foundation of racism and examine how it has transformed over time. Programs such as Unwanted Sterilization and Eugenics in the United States, the adoption of such findings in WWII through experimentation and mass murder, as well as segregating immigrants upon arrival on Ellis Island will demonstrate the immoral ways in which societies experienced racism. Studying the justification of slavery that turned into segregating people of color for profit, which eventually led to the civil rights movement in the United States further dehumanized people. Through methodical advances today there is not a prevailing ethnic norm. Therefore, what needs to be looked at is what makes us inherently the same rather than what was assumed to separate people in the past.
The concept of creativity has come a long way. The Old Greeks would call those creative forces muses, other religions referred to them as God. Today people still mostly treat creativity as an aha moment outside the area of influence. However, just by looking at the creative process one can tell, that creativity and creative work is more than just that one "Aha-Moment" (insight). It is clear that generating ideas demands planning and preparation, identifying something of interest like a problem, an opportunity or a challenge, doing research. This then leads to thinking of a solution, allowing time to incubate and iterations before arriving at something “complete.” Students learn that hard work is what makes their ideas come to life and sticktuiveness is what helps them get better.