Action Pictures

Reflective thoughts about this Project

Has your involvment in Me Myself and Mask enabled you to gain a
better understanding of the different aspects of both leading and creating a Community Arts Project?

Have you been able to put into practice your own perception of facilitation?

Do you consider that collaboration and facilitation are different roles to take?

Have you achieved the challenges that you will have set for yourself at the beginning of the project?

What have been the best and the most difficult areas that you have experienced throughout the process of this project?

Private View

Site for Installation

Installation Interpretation:

Final Mask Designs

Here are a few images from the final workshop; where each Year 8 student pushed their mask design through to an exciting conclusion. These images will now be printed onto a 60x60cm piece of perspex and installed for the private view next Wednesday.

March 10 2009

QUESTIONNAIRE

Afternoon...

Was wondering if anyone had any ideas/direction or even some examples of questions that you would like to see in the 'QUESTIONNAIRE'

Kind Regards

John

Mask Examples

A friend of mine, Terese Elhard, from my school back home made these mask prints in a class last semester. I think they are a great example of the project we are all working on. She made the masks based on people in her life and used simplified imagery and pattern to serve as symbolic expressions of the people, for example one of them has a mountain range type shape on his head. Interesting examples I think!

Narrative Text/Image Activity

Activity:

Warm-up, students chose an image from either previously taken photographs or a newspaper. Then they create a headline and narrative based upon the selected image.

Workshop 04- Consequences (text)

Consequences Text:

Warm-up activity; linked to a similar ‘drawing’ exercise in the previous session.
Participants were asked to write down a response to the following (in this order)…

1. A person
2. Where they went to?
3. Who they met?
4. What did they say?
5. What happened?

After each question, the participant would conceal their answer by folding up the piece of paper. Following this, all participants would pass their paper around the table in the same direction, answering the next question on the new piece- recently passed onto them. The process continues until the fifth question has been answered.

Masques Africans

Peter Blake- Image, Text and Collage

Masks from Around the World

Participant Questionnaire

Julie and I have been looking to write a questionnaire for the pupils focusing on the their response to the workshops whilst asking them to address possible notions of personal and communal identity at the same time...

Does anyone have any suggestion or questions/topics that they think would be useful to include in this questionnaire?

Please post them up...

Thanks

Workshop 03 Proposal

Text Activty Proposal:

http://memyselfandmask.blogspot.com/2009/02/workshop-03-planning.htm

Workshop 03- Planning

Hi everyone,

Thanks again for taking charge of your different sections in this week's session, it was both productive and enjoyable for the pupils. Will give you a bit of feedback about specific aspects next week.

For the coming week, I think it’s important that we all go and look at the space where the work will be displayed, so I think we should begin the morning with this.

Then have the same kind of exercise as this week, with the "Consequences" drawing, but instead use text. So whoever would like to lead this can take the opportunity!!!

After I think it would be good to refer back to the mask image of the previous week and recap the identity and narrative of these, so that all pupils are clear about the source for developing their image. Anyone who wants to change will need to be supported with establishing who their image will portray.

I would really like to see a development in the use of text, so it would be good to have as many creative ways as possible to use text as a design or visual tool. With all your different ways of exploring processes, would for instance, James, John and Julia who all work with text, like to introduce their very different ideas in the use of text? And anyone else who wants to contribute?

Maybe also to expand the use the photographic images, as repeat design motifs, etc, so if anyone wants to work on this and lead an exploration, that would be great.Let me know if you have any ideas, or would like any materials to be provided.

Irene

Workshop 02- Print/Paint

Print/Paint:
Activity Photographs

Workshop 02

Draw/Make/Photograph//

The pupils were asked to choose a detail from the photographs taken the previous week, in this case the subject was body parts. The purpose of this sequence was to take either a shape or pattern and each time remove it from its context and move towards an abstracted form. The activity was intended to get the pupils to think about not what they draw but how they draw and the modeling was to engage them in three dimensional visualization.

Workshop 02- DMP

Draw-Make-Photograph:
Activity Photographs