How did the service and course learning experiences change/refine your initial thoughts about teaching and learning?
After having experienced everything first hand, I now see how important it is to be prepared for everything when you're teaching. What can you do to ensure students remain engaged, how can they seek answers on their own, and generally how to keep their creativity flowing. It becomes a balancing act of teaching within the balancing act of our daily routines and lives. It will be important going forward to keep a healthy balance between everything so that one thing doesn't throw the others out of balance. How did you show your connection among your past, current, and future, learning/teaching in your final artwork? My final work represents the growth and transition from my younger years to where I am now. The three versions below all represent the same thing, but the last one is the most accurate to the one I wanted to have in it. The colors are used to represent the progression from a calm youth, to where I got left behind in middle school, and progressed through high school reaching to where I am in college. Each expression ties into how my mood was back during those years: a cheery kid, a reclusive pre-teen looking back on how it was before, slowly getting used to things and moving on in high school, and where I am finally looking toward the future with a smile. I What was the most fun part and what was the hardest part of creating your autoethnographic artwork? The most fun part of this process was getting to go back through all of the hallmarks of my education and seeing how they aligned. It allowed me to see just how the stories reflected my mood, behavior, and general response to the way things were going in school. The hardest part was deciding what to include in the final work and how things should be represented. In the end, I decided that while the other aspects would add interest, there is just too much to include that it wouldn't work out the way I intended. What materials did you use to create the artwork and why did you choose them? Did you make any changes during the working process? What did you change and why? Initially, the idea was to incorporate different mediums from what would be considered moments they'd be used in: crayons for elementary, colored pencils for middle school, COPIC markers for high school, and possibly watercolor for college. After thinking and looking at past works that followed these styles, I decided not to because it would become overly cluttered and take away from the message. While it would provide visual interest with the textures and lines, the colors would likely not match or be too vibrant. That's why I chose to go fully digital. It reflects that this is where I am and where I am going. As an electronic artist, it is important to understand how other mediums work and appear because we may have to replicate those aesthetics in a program, which is why I stuck with the watercolor style background. I felt that out of the options that would work the best as it is a solid look that comes from fluidity. Just like how education creates a solid impact but looking back on everything turns it all to fluid when they merge and flow together. What incidents or events changed or influenced your thoughts to create the final product? One of the initial ideas was to include a symbol or something to represent the stories that were shaped in my education. They played a major part in how I was going through the school system. In the end, what I really wanted to focus on was how I changed in those years through body language and expressions in the artwork. The stories are things that I want people to discover and not be told about. Being told a story is all well and good but you don't get the experience firsthand like you would reading through a book or comic series. Why did you compose/create your artwork in this way? I designed my composition to show a growth from my years as a youth to my years in college in a fashion similar to the evolutionary chart. Instead of starting with the youngest on the left and having it transition to the right gradually aging, I chose to have the oldest on the left because that's where I am. Everything past that is the history that led to this point and is something to be read into further. How do these other figures represent the first figure? What role do they play? After reflecting through art making and looking at your final work, what understanding or feeling can possibly help you apply your current art teaching and learning perspectives to your future teaching and learning? I realize I must be open to accepting old and new. They shape who I am now, who I was, and who I will be. Just as I have grown, my students will too. In order to ensure that they have a bright future, whether it be in art or in general, it will be important to remember how I was forgotten and make sure no student goes unnoticed. Even if it's a simple hello or wave, it shows that they aren't invisible amongst the crowd. What is your title for this artwork? Colored Past; Open Canvas: I have my history of color stained work and a white surface in front of me.
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Joel SchreinerBorn on December 17th, 1996, Joel Schreiner entered the Electronic Art program at CSU right out of High School. From there he decided to set his eyes on becoming an educator alongside an illustrator and concept artist. Archives
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