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Arts TRYathlon #1: Choose Your Own Adventure!
Arts TRYathlon #1: Choose Your Own Adventure!
10 September 2024, Craft & Chat, Artistic Impressions Mural with TA Connel
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Within this craft and chat, I learned how to combine different artistic styles and mediums to make an art piece conveying a common message. A large piece of paper was placed in the lounge in Bel Air Hall, with the central words Art Scholars drawn out in the middle with blocky, bold letters. I found a little heart someone had drawn before with markers and used paints to blend in the lines in the heart and draw a koi fish swimming around it. This craft and chat has a similar focus to what I want to do in my capstone project - building community. Just as this mural built community between different artists in art scholars through sketching between and through each other’s drawings, I hope to build community between different socioeconomic groups in the PG County area through some central artistic event that is accessible to everyone. I did notice that people at the event weren’t interacting with each other verbally - it actually felt kind of awkward. I’m not sure if it was because people may have felt obligated to go in order to complete their Tryathlon (and maybe didn’t want to be there), if people were focused on their art, or if people were just tired at the end of the day. In whatever event that I end up planning, I want to make sure it’s a comfortable environment for people to mingle and make friends.
Arts TRYathlon #2: Choose Your Own Adventure
Arts TRYathlon #2: Choose Your Own Adventure
26 September 2024, Liana Flores at The Atlantis
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The Liana Flores concert was beyond magical. Liana Flores sang so lovingly, and acted so kind to her audience. She sang in a cozy music venue in Washington D.C., with a lower floor around the stage, a higher up balcony overlooking the stage, and a roof exposed to the outdoor elements (which I'm sitting on in the photo above)! In LARC162, an environmental justice class that I took as a supporting class for art scholars, we learned about how some types of architecture works to bring people closer. For example, under a traffic bridge, people can grow gardens to attract wildlife and become a gathering place for people. I found the Atlantis music venue to be architecture with these qualities. It made human interaction inevitable in such an intimate setting. After standing for a while and singing my heart out, I felt my right ankle begin to give out. I had sprained this ankle quite a few times in the past, making it a lot weaker than my left angle. I had to take a break, and found myself sitting along the wall. But, even the break was a lovely experience. I watched people in flowy dresses walk to and from the bathroom, and over to the bar to get a drink. A few people were sitting against the wall, too, and we sang Liana Flores’ songs together, even if we were too close to the ground to see Liana Flores sing herself.
Arts TRYathlon #3: Arts Scholars Event
Arts TRYathlon #3: Arts Scholars Event
24 October 2024, Craft & Chat: Magic with Mehndi with TA Nivi
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I never thought of using stencils to make mehndi. I didn't even knew what mehndi, a form of Indian linework art, was until this craft and chat.
Last year, we had a speaker in art scholars talk about how identity intersects with our beings. My father is Indian, but I’m third generation and don’t know that much about Indian culture. I find myself acting as a mirror, learning about myself through the appreciation of other people’s traits and subsequently picking up some of their traits as my own. My neuroscience teacher told us that she yearns to try psychedelics. To experience the world as selfless as a dog, with no regard to her internal world. I talked to TA Nivi a bit during this craft and chat, and she told me about her experience finding comfort in Indian art. I yearn to have comfort in something that my ancestors practiced before me, something that I know has an ancient history intertwined within it. But do I really? I think I already have interests that are deep rooted within time. I love, I draw, I read, I roll in the grass...
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