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Arts TRYathlon #2: Choose Your Own Adventure
Arts TRYathlon #2: Choose Your Own Adventure
Event Logistics (February 21, 2025, MarylandCru @ Thurgood Marshall Room Stamp Student Union, Prayer Boards)
Tags include: #visualart, #music, #presentation #christianart
Attending this event where I was the head board of creativity was a very significant experience to attend the event when my friends and I made prayer boards. It helped me better appreciate the role that art plays in fostering community and personal expression, which is closely related to what I've studied in my Arts Scholars colloquium. By asking us to consider our own goals, aspirations, and prayers in a tactile and visual manner, the exercise promoted both creativity and awareness. Like making prayer boards, it was a very tangible way of expressing our spiritual walk and our self-expression. This Idea has connecting the the Arts Scholars supporting course that I am taking which is AASP289L. We learn about how African americans express themselves using many different visual art styles like artwork, poetry, and plays they have written. We were able to express our hidden feelings and give them further meaning by writing our prayers, dreams, and goals on the boards. This idea reflects what we have learned about the power of art to process and convey both individual and group experiences. Finally, the highlighted sense of community can be experienced through creative processes, our shared experience of making prayer boards encouraged bonding and honest discussions, just how art can unite individuals to examine and discuss significant social issues.
Arts TRYathlon #3: Arts Scholars Event
Arts TRYathlon #3: Arts Scholars Event
Event Logistics (March 26, 2025, Bel Air Hall/ College Park Scholars Arts, Paper Clip Jewelry)
( Tags include: #visualart, #jewelrymaking
For Arts Scholars, making paper clip jewelry has been a cool and valuable experience that combines creativity, imagination, and an advanced understanding of materials and design. Although paperclips might initially appear to be a typical, everyday object, turning them into wearable works of art challenges conventional ideas of what defines art and pushes the limits of traditional art-making. This project provides a useful lesson in the value of originality for Arts Scholars. When working with a basic, common object like a paperclip, artists must look outside the box and find form and beauty in the most basic things. It pushes us to abandon typical tools and supplies, serving as a reminder that creativity and innovative thinking, rather than the price or availability of materials, are what define art. This also brought me to start talking to people in Arts Scholars who I barely talk to before. The sense of community that brought us together was very important. Also, creating paperclip jewelry promotes environmentally friendly practices and artistic material reuse. This activity emphasizes the need of reusing items in a society where consumer culture frequently results in mass waste. Making jewelry out of paperclips is a concrete example of sustainability in art, and environmental consciousness is a topic that many arts academics address in their work. It served as a reminder that significant art may occasionally be made from objects that would otherwise be thrown away; new, pricey materials are not always necessary for this.
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