Nearly all students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education.
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The Autobiographical Comic project focuses on personal story-telling as the driving conceptual force behind the artwork. Students spend several class periods reading, writing, and telling stories, learning how to understand and unpack personal experience.
How do the stories we tell about ourselves transform our relationship to the past? While exploring this large question, the student artists will invest time into understanding and practicing comic, character, and lettering design. For the project, the student artists will "cartoonize" themselves into original characters. They will observe and discuss music videos drawn by Jamie Hewlett and Takashi Murakami, read autobiographical graphic novels, and study panel compositions made by Wally Wood to gain inspiration.
Once the students have undergone multiple peer reviews of their sketches and designs, they will create their final artwork using watercolor and sharpie.
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The Autobiographical Comic project focuses on personal story-telling as the driving conceptual force behind the artwork. Students spend several class periods reading, writing, and telling stories, learning how to understand and unpack personal experience.
How do the stories we tell about ourselves transform our relationship to the past? While exploring this large question, the student artists will invest time into understanding and practicing comic, character, and lettering design. For the project, the student artists will "cartoonize" themselves into original characters. They will observe and discuss music videos drawn by Jamie Hewlett and Takashi Murakami, read autobiographical graphic novels, and study panel compositions made by Wally Wood to gain inspiration.
Once the students have undergone multiple peer reviews of their sketches and designs, they will create their final artwork using watercolor and sharpie.