Arts Legacy Grant: School Residency
Arts Legacy Grant: School Residency
Win-e-Mac Public School art program is seeking a grant for a one week artist residency with comic artist, Jerry Decaire.
MaryAnn Laxen: photographer, visual artist; Connie Nelson: visual artist, actress; Elizabeth Rockstad: visual artist; Elwyn Ruud: school residency coordinator; Briana Ingraham: musician, social policy manager; Kristina Gray: professor, fine crafter; Brook Rufsvold: teacher; Aliza Novacek-Olson: professor, textile artist; Janet Johnson: visual artist; Katya Zepeda: administrator, potter.
MaryAnn Laxen: photographer, visual artist; Connie Nelson: visual artist, actress; Briana Ingraham: musician, social policy manager; Aliza Novacek-Olson: professor, textile artist
ACHF Arts Education
As a result of this artist residency, teens and youth will have the opportunity to work with a comic book artists from Marvel Comics and learn how to draw comic book style characters. Evaluation will occur through questionnaires and interviews with students taking part in the artist residency. Participants will describe and evaluate their experience working with the artist. The art teacher will also evaluate the experience and time spend with the artist.
Students and participants of this program were able to visualize the working life of a comic book artists. They were able to better understand the career field and related fields within comic books, graphic arts, and illustration. Many students were able to realize that a career within the field of the arts is attainable and worth exploring. Our staff members were also able to understand the inner workings of the comic book field and how a book is produced from start to finish.