Imaginitive Project Ideas

Imaginative Project: 40%
As this class deals with the imaginal aspects of transformative learning, the final outcome is a form of creative expression that integrates what you have learned in the course. Some possibilities include:

• Create a painting drawing or collage that depicts your understanding of transformative learning
  
• Create a photo essay that represents your learning
  
• Write a short story, poem or series of poems
  
• Create a film or digital story
  
• Create a quilt or weaving
  
• Create a short performative piece
  
• Select several songs that speak to you about transformative learning and
  write a paper using the song lyrics or write your own song
  
• Analyze the transformative experience of a character from a novel or film
  

• Propose another form of expression that depicts your learning

Schedule

A way to begin is to let your mind go very loose and just see what starts to appear when you think of transformative learning. Make notes of the words and images that appear. Consider metaphors for transformative learning that show up. Repeat this process again and again until something starts to take shape. Start to fill a “box”, for instance, with images that slip into view in your mind. You could physically do this with a box with images collected from magazines etc. and actual objects.
When the 'box' is full take a look and see if everything is there. Are there things in the box that could be removed? Are there things in the box that resonate? What is the best way to creatively express what is in your box?
Post your project online (or a picture/video of it) during Module 8.

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So I've actually been planning this for a while. I am showing my work in Macy Gallery at TC a little after the end of the semester. The work goes up May 20th and the reception is May 23rd. Here's a little info about it: 

Rehearsal Lines for 1000 Suns

Dates: May 20-Jun 13

Reception: May 23, 5 – 7pm

Co-produced by Art and Art Education Program doctoral students Carianna Arredondo and Charles Onyewuchi, this exhibition stems from the integrative process of bringing together language, material, arts engagement and experience. Through their work, Arredondo and Onyewuchi conduct an interdisciplinary venture into the seen and unseen, known and unknown, and macro and microcosms of self and society.

The work that I am creating for the show with my colleague is about how I use material, language, and art in order to engage with my identity and inner psyche. The work that I am creating is reflective of my past and present. How I grapple with identity and navigate transforming the self.