Mentions the colors in their art work as a positive 1111111

Mentions their content as a positive 11111111111

Mentions drawing as a positive11111

Mentions the washes or painting as a negative 1111111111

Mentions everything as a negative 1

Mentions drawing as a positive11

Mentions fixing certain components 11111111111

The tallying above is from a written assignment that I asked my students to work on this week. This is right after we started to get into our Julie Mehretu inspired art works. Students were asked to pick a place, and abstract that place with layered drawings, light washed of acrylic paint and finally adding details back in. I asked student to write about five sentences for the following prompts 1) Write about all the positives that you have been seeing in this work, what have you enjoyed or liked about your work this far. 2) Write about all of the negatives that you have been experiencing within this work. Once I had all of the students work that were in class that day, I started to read through them. I took notes of the commonalities that I was seeing and after I made the categories that are above. I found that students listed about fixing things also, which was not asked from them.

For my corresponding visualization, I tried to make it more concrete than last time. I decided to use objects that looked like air molecules. I thought about how we are all breathing and moving constantly and that the only thing that is similar to all of the students places that they picked, was air. We all need to breath. I made the molecules larger if there were more tally’s that were in connection to that idea. I then, colored all of the positive molecules bright colors, and all of the negative colors dark. This way I could, and the viewer could, make connections to what was the most popular theme for both and whether or not it was a negative or positive response. All of the red circles are freshman responses and all of the blue circles are sophomore response. Unfortunately my senior has been out for about a week and hasn’t been back. On the paper I also placed all the positive responses on the bottom and all the negative on the top. I tried not to leave anything up to chance so it congruent to the data I collected.

This project is also in connection with my literature topics that I have been exploring this entire time. I am looking at visual culture impacts on students and their responses to these ideas. Although it is not present in this data set, it is present in the artwork that students are completing in class. Community and place is a large portion of everything that I have been doing and is present in the research that I have been collections and the literature review in which I have gathered all my information to help aid this project.