MN GCE Portfolio

This is my third and final action project for my Humanities class, Endurance. Throughout this class, each of us had to ask ourselves what our mission in life is, how we can work towards our mission and what are we willing to endure to reach it. The mission that I have decided on for myself is to become a better artist. For me, the next big step after I graduate is to start art school. This project is a survival guide, breaking down what it takes to pursue my mission. As this is one of the last action projects I will ever do, it feels fitting for it to be a plan for my future. The previous project for Endurance was a video documenting 12 hours of work on our mission. That project was more rigorous and work intensive than this one but reflecting on it helped me better understand what the work I will be doing next year will be like. Knowing that made it easier to create my survival guide. If you would like to watch my video click here . Bellow is the final product and culmination of this

In every person's life, each person is presented with a challenge. When faced with that challenge they must surrender or endure. For my class Endurance, we discussed and studied how others have endured challenges great and small. For our first project, each of us decided upon a mission for ourselves. The mission I set for myself was to become a better artist. For this project, we had to dedicate 12 hours to our mission and document the process. I spent my time working on one painting and it was both easier and harder than I expected it to be. I have worked on a number of paintings in my life and going into this I was already aware of the mental blocks that come with creating art.  The greatest challenge of this painting was the size and scope I set out with. With a 4x7ft canvas and 6 figures in the composition, I started to regret my ambitious planning. I am also unhappy that I was unable to finish the painting in 12 hours, though it was not a surprise. I am planning on finishing i

This is my second and final action project for my humanities course, called Equality. In the first unit, we studied the history of inequality. For the first action project, we created a chapter of a history book, telling the story of a relatively recent event through the perspective of an oppressed or underrepresented community. If you would like to see that project click here . Transitioning into the next unit, we concluded the history portion of the class and studied and discussed inequality in America today. For this action project, we were tasked with creating a newspaper article, covering a topic related to equality and an event marking the progress made in 100 years. I chose to write about the first gay king of England. The Issuu below is my article, I hope you enjoy.

This is my first action project for my humanities course, Equality. In this class, we discussed different kinds of oppression and privilege. We started by studying racism, specifically in United States history and how the way racial discrimination has evolved over time. Starting from the first slave to arrive in America in 1619 to the structural racism of today's prison system. We also talked about race bias and white privilege. In this part of the unit, we watched the Oscar-winning movie BlacKkKlansman, a well done, honest and timely film. Watching it as a part of this class was fitting for the curriculum, but it was also something that was important for us to watch even if it hadn't been in for a class. From there we shifted to the topic of sexism, gender roles, and fragile masculinity. As a class, we generally discuss these heavier topics rather well in our own way and throughout this class that was a constant pattern. However, this part of the unit on gender and sexism is w

This is my second action project for my humanities course, Global Peace. For this project we were tasked with picking an issue to act on through a form of peaceful protest. The paper and presentation below is the summation of my research, my action and my purpose. Pride Flag, Wikicommons (2005) In today's world, young LGBT people feel alone. The lack of representation and recognition in the media and minimal at best protections from discrimination. A few small steps have been made towards addressing systematic oppression, but not much has been done to address what is known as cultural violence. Cultural violence is the unspoken stigma of a community or society that can establish, normalize and justify oppression. It is part of the bedrock that sparks direct violence, a specific incidence or an act harming a person or group of people. Direct violence targeting the LGBT community is a norm hardly ever addressed by the traditional mainstream news outlets. This complete disregar