30 Day Art Teacher Challenge, May 2020
Join me in the 30-day #JournalCare Challenge and create!
(This is for the teachers, but you might get some ideas for your students too!)
Michelle Harrell, curator at the NC Museum of Art serves as this month's National Art Education Association Monthly Mentor!She's using this platform to (1) the work art educators are doing in response to COVID-19 and (2) how art educators are prioritizing their own self care. 4 amazing art educators to co-lead a 30 day #JournalCare challenge to emphasize visual journaling for self-care. Huge thanks to Jodi Aker, Art Ed Guru (Eric Gibbons), Holly Bess Kincaid, and Sara Quinn Gant for all of their help pulling this together!
See the whole #JournalCare project on Michelle's blog HERE
Or the NAEA site HERE.
See my student video prompts for their Covid19 Altered Books HERE.
Or my blog post HERE.
For a video about making your own art supplies go HERE.
As you participate, please add "#JournalCare" to your images on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and others so your work is shared with others. If you post on facebook, please make that specific post "public" so it can be found and shared with the organizers.
(This is for the teachers, but you might get some ideas for your students too!)
Michelle Harrell, curator at the NC Museum of Art serves as this month's National Art Education Association Monthly Mentor!She's using this platform to (1) the work art educators are doing in response to COVID-19 and (2) how art educators are prioritizing their own self care. 4 amazing art educators to co-lead a 30 day #JournalCare challenge to emphasize visual journaling for self-care. Huge thanks to Jodi Aker, Art Ed Guru (Eric Gibbons), Holly Bess Kincaid, and Sara Quinn Gant for all of their help pulling this together!
See the whole #JournalCare project on Michelle's blog HERE
Or the NAEA site HERE.
See my student video prompts for their Covid19 Altered Books HERE.
Or my blog post HERE.
For a video about making your own art supplies go HERE.
As you participate, please add "#JournalCare" to your images on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and others so your work is shared with others. If you post on facebook, please make that specific post "public" so it can be found and shared with the organizers.
#JournalCare Day 5
The 5th day prompt for #JournalCare is "Moments Of Hope"
(Video Below)
What gives you hope during the pandemic? Gardening, getting your "honey do" list done, reinvigorating a relationship, connecting to those you lost track of, or perhaps you are a Covid Survivor. There are many things to be grateful for every day, large and small. Take one or more on and create a work of art or journal entry reflecting on that. Will it be a collage, a painting, a drawing, a pop-out artwork or a piece of illuminates script. It's up to you!
(Video Below)
What gives you hope during the pandemic? Gardening, getting your "honey do" list done, reinvigorating a relationship, connecting to those you lost track of, or perhaps you are a Covid Survivor. There are many things to be grateful for every day, large and small. Take one or more on and create a work of art or journal entry reflecting on that. Will it be a collage, a painting, a drawing, a pop-out artwork or a piece of illuminates script. It's up to you!
#JournalCare Day 10
The day 10 prompt is "The Child Within" (Video Below)
Create an artwork in your Altered Book or journal reflecting on "The Child Within." This can be viewed in many ways, so it's up to you to imagine it as it best fits for you.
#1. If you were a child, how might you view the Pandemic?
#2. If you have children, create a work of art reflecting that experience.
#3. Focus on the joys children experience during this time, or reflect on the stresses this has illuminated.
#4. Create a work based on emerging information about how children are impacted by the virus. This could be their own risk factors, or how they might be carriers of the virus, or how we do not yet know the risks they face.
#5. If you are expecting a child, perhaps a letter to them about how you are trying to get ready for their arrival.
There are many ways to interpret this prompt so based on your unique perspective create a work of art or journal entry reflecting on that. Will it be a collage, a painting, a drawing, a pop-out artwork or a piece of illuminates script. It's up to you!
Create an artwork in your Altered Book or journal reflecting on "The Child Within." This can be viewed in many ways, so it's up to you to imagine it as it best fits for you.
#1. If you were a child, how might you view the Pandemic?
#2. If you have children, create a work of art reflecting that experience.
#3. Focus on the joys children experience during this time, or reflect on the stresses this has illuminated.
#4. Create a work based on emerging information about how children are impacted by the virus. This could be their own risk factors, or how they might be carriers of the virus, or how we do not yet know the risks they face.
#5. If you are expecting a child, perhaps a letter to them about how you are trying to get ready for their arrival.
There are many ways to interpret this prompt so based on your unique perspective create a work of art or journal entry reflecting on that. Will it be a collage, a painting, a drawing, a pop-out artwork or a piece of illuminates script. It's up to you!
#JournalCare Day 15
This is the day 15 prompt for #JournalCare "In The News"
We are bombarded by the news with information daily. It cannot help but shape our view of the pandemic. Your source of news also may influence your point of view depending if you trend more conservative or liberal in your selections. You can create an entry based on the news, using news clippings, or your reaction to the news. Perhaps your entry may even be how you have decided to tune-out the news or limit your exposure. I have offered a few examples, please comment with links to your own Journals. Remember to label your work with the hashtag so we can find your work more easily. #JournalCare
We are bombarded by the news with information daily. It cannot help but shape our view of the pandemic. Your source of news also may influence your point of view depending if you trend more conservative or liberal in your selections. You can create an entry based on the news, using news clippings, or your reaction to the news. Perhaps your entry may even be how you have decided to tune-out the news or limit your exposure. I have offered a few examples, please comment with links to your own Journals. Remember to label your work with the hashtag so we can find your work more easily. #JournalCare
#JournalCare Day 20
This is the day 20 prompt for #JournalCare "In Memoriam."
Have you lost someone to this pandemic, or were surprised by a person you admire succumbing to the virus? Perhaps you have experienced a loss. This prompt is to help us memorialize a person, family member, hero, or something else we have lost during this pandemic. Please comment with links to your own Journals. Remember to label your work with the hashtag so we can find your work more easily. #JournalCare
Have you lost someone to this pandemic, or were surprised by a person you admire succumbing to the virus? Perhaps you have experienced a loss. This prompt is to help us memorialize a person, family member, hero, or something else we have lost during this pandemic. Please comment with links to your own Journals. Remember to label your work with the hashtag so we can find your work more easily. #JournalCare
#JournalCare Day 25
The day 25 prompt for #JournalCare "Letter or Prayer"
Reaching out is important for us to do in this pandemic; either to a friend, mentor, neighbor, or perhaps through your faith. The theme for today is a letter or prayer. I wrote a letter to my father who had passed before this pandemic started, but this can take on many other forms. Consider a letter to a future child, a letter to yourself as a kind of time capsule, a letter to a hero , living or dead, or even a fictional character. If you are a person of faith, then maybe a prayer or letter to God is something that would appeal to you. Consider coordinating text and images as you sketch, draw, paint, or sculpt. Please comment with links to your own Journals. Remember to label your work with the hashtag so we can find your work more easily. #JournalCare
Reaching out is important for us to do in this pandemic; either to a friend, mentor, neighbor, or perhaps through your faith. The theme for today is a letter or prayer. I wrote a letter to my father who had passed before this pandemic started, but this can take on many other forms. Consider a letter to a future child, a letter to yourself as a kind of time capsule, a letter to a hero , living or dead, or even a fictional character. If you are a person of faith, then maybe a prayer or letter to God is something that would appeal to you. Consider coordinating text and images as you sketch, draw, paint, or sculpt. Please comment with links to your own Journals. Remember to label your work with the hashtag so we can find your work more easily. #JournalCare
#JournalCare Day 29
Day 29 for #JournalCare "Documenting Unexpected Beauty"
It can be hard to think about the "positive things" in a pandemic. The news is bleak, a vaccine is possibly a long way off. Many have lost jobs or family... but in between the pain, there is beauty, unexpected beauty all around us. Take some time to really look around you. Take a walk, check out your neighborhood, or your own backyard. Perhaps photography may be a good way to record the beauty, and translate that into a painting, sketch, or drawing. Perhaps collecting some mementos can be used to create a collage in your journal or altered book. Please comment with links to your own Journals. Remember to label your work with the hashtag so we can find your work more easily. #JournalCare
It can be hard to think about the "positive things" in a pandemic. The news is bleak, a vaccine is possibly a long way off. Many have lost jobs or family... but in between the pain, there is beauty, unexpected beauty all around us. Take some time to really look around you. Take a walk, check out your neighborhood, or your own backyard. Perhaps photography may be a good way to record the beauty, and translate that into a painting, sketch, or drawing. Perhaps collecting some mementos can be used to create a collage in your journal or altered book. Please comment with links to your own Journals. Remember to label your work with the hashtag so we can find your work more easily. #JournalCare
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