Thank you everyone for all your work to make this public art project possible. Congratulations Urban Scholar Artists and best wishes for the future!

Scroll down to see a tweet by BPS Arts Expansion Program who spotted Ann Boucicaut’s poster on the Red Line!

Spotted on @MBTA red line this morning! @Urban_Scholars_ & @BostonSchools student art #bpsarts #InTransitBoston pic.twitter.com/1wFxK5x3Mc

— BPS Arts Expansion (@BPSiCreate) August 17, 2016

August 13, 2016 Urban Scholars celebrated the In Transit: Voices & Vision project.

Opening Celebration

August 13, 2016
1:30 – 3:00 p.m.
Harbor Gallery

McCormack Hall, Plaza Level
UMass Boston, 100 Morrissey Blvd.
Boston, MA 02125

* Light Refreshments &  Music by Jazz Tea with Olive Marie *

https://www.facebook.com/events/305796406476419/

Questions? contact lisa.link@umb.edu

If you see one of the posters on the MBTA, please share with the hashtag #InTransitBoston

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https://www.instagram.com/p/BIu9tRwhrQ8/?taken-by=lisalinkfoto

Last Design Day in the lab with Ann, Mayra, Phillip, Quanye, and Tessa.

Thank you Tessa for taking some documentary photos of our final work session in the lab.

Lisa, Suamy, & Brad review flyers for the August 13 celebration. Photo by Stephanie Hicks-Williams

During May students worked on combining images with their quotes in the computer. They created the image composites in Adobe Photoshop.

A big THANK YOU to the Creative Services team at UMass Boston who reviewed our rough drafts and gave us some ideas on how to improve them.

Another thank you to In Transit student artist Quanye who has been especially helpful to classmates sharing his Photoshop skills.

The pictures in this post demonstrate recent design activities. Students worked in the computer lab with Adobe Photoshop to  combine two images together to create the final poster. They chose images to go with their quotes. After everyone combined two images to go with their quote, we asked them to experiment and try a second version.

Some of the Photoshop techniques demonstrated:

• Layers – combining them.
• Layers – adjusting scale.
• Layers – making them transparent “Opacity.”
• Layer mask – how to create a blend.

Quanye’s original photo of Suamy. Quanye crouched low on the ground to create the illusion of Suamy flying through the air when she jumped.

Student photo of the water from March 17 from the group photo walk

Quanye uses photoshop layer mask to combine the two photos. Adjust color/contrast and retouches the jumping figure.

Quanye adjusts color to create a higher impact design

Quanye includes the quote from his interviewee. We will be editing the font styles and type arrangement and adding a credit bar on the bottom this week.

Students chose their final quotes.  They worked as a team and we gave them the option of choosing a quote from the combined list of interview favorite phrases from all the interviews:  https://blogs.umb.edu/intransit/2016/02/11/quotes/

”I left behind a level of despair, that living wasn’t worth it … I took hopefulness about life.”
Frances, Interviewed by Tessa
student artist: Tessa

“A journey happens while you’re busy embracing your limits”
Paula, Interviewed by Quanye
student artist: Quanye

“There’s no cost in life, it’s all about adapting yourself.”
Alan, OLLI, Interviewed by Tessa
student artist: Tarjanae

“When you experience change, you either embrace it or run from it.”
Boston Resident, 20 years, Interviewed by Phillip
student artist: Daphtaney

“I could take all my memories.”
Joanne, OLLI, Interviewed by Filomena , Jailson, Mayra
student artists: Filomena & Jocelina

“Experience makes a journey easier, but a journey makes experiences.”
Charlie, UMass Boston Student,  interviewed by Filomena
student artists: Filomena & Jocelina

“Everyone fights their demons but you can’t lose unless you let yourself lose.”
Lydia, Mechanical Engineer, Interviewed by Angela
student artist: Angela

“I took my culture, I took the sense of being myself.”
Andrea, Education Warrior, Interviewed by Adilse & Mayra
Student artists:  Adilse & Anilson

“I had to leave behind a piece of my past in order for my future.”
Boston Resident 25 years, interviewed by Phillip
student artist: Phillip

“I was fortunate to travel all over the world, and my travels to various world cultures and environments impacted my life immensely – specifically, I appreciate clean water and environment even more 🙂 making my quest to protect nature and learn from it even more important goal.” 
Anamarija Frankic, Director, Green Boston Harbor Project, interviewed by Gilson &  Michael
student artist: Gilson

“Don’t run away from your problems, just deal with it.”
Anny’s dad, interviewed by Anny
Student artists: Michael & Mathias

“Follow your heart. You don’t know where it will lead you but trust that it will take you to the right place.”
Ann, OLLI, interviewed by Jailson, Mayra, & Filomena
Student artists: Francisco & Jailson

“I believe that my personal journey impacts the world by helping them see that we are all in this together, that if I can make it this far, so can everyone.”
Sandy, interviewed by Ann
Student artist: Ann

“The journey was a challenge., but he was able to meet his challenges.”
Ann, OLLI interviewed by Jailson, Mayra, & Filomena
Student artist: Mayra

Students coated paper with gesso and tinted the gesso different colors. They then began painting designs inspired by their quotes. Next step will be to combine everything together in the computer.

Paintings + Photographs + Words + Urban Scholars = InTransit art posters!

Exciting to see the studio work moving forward.  Today students worked on applying Gesso to paper, preparing it for painting.  Students also took more photos and explored the amazing new space of University Hall – what a great photo backdrop!

photo by Brad

photo by Francisco

photo by Jocelina

photo by Jocelina

photo by francisco

photo by Francisco

photo by Francisco

photo by Francisco

photo by Mayra

photo by Mayra

photo by Mayra

Photo by Mayra

Photo by Jocelina

Photo by Mayra

photo by Jailson

photo by Brad

Photo by Brad