Welcome to the public art project, “In Transit: Voices & Vision.”

Agenda for November 12:

4:00 -4:15

• Snacks & Overview
• Brief introductions – names, school, grade
• What is “In Transit”?
  A public art project. Total of 10 poster designs — 5 horizontal designs, 5 rectangle designs – inside Orange Line trains.  Public art project funded by New England Foundation for the Arts Creative City Grant program (see press release in your folder).
• Why?
  I spend a lot of time on the trains and so do my kids and their friends, my two kids graduated from BPS and in Boston I haven’t seen  much art by students in the trains so I applied to start putting it there. So many BPS students are in the trains every day.  With Brad and Suamy, we  chose the theme of “Journey”.  Journey’s can be about either  physical or emotional journeys.
• How?
  Studio exercises in photography, painting, graphic design, and journalism every Thursday 4-5 p.m. In addition to meeting every Thursday, you will sometimes get art activities to take home with you.
• When/Where?
  The designs are due for production, June 1, 2016.  This is a public art project with a strict MBTA deadline so your attendance is critical. Your voice matters, you will be part of a professional art team. We will meet in classrooms and sometimes in a Mac computer lab or painting studio so check all emails and announcements.
• Art Style & process
  These will be text / image designs – words on top of either photographs or paintings. Work in teams on collecting stories on the theme of  “journey” from older people in your communities – family, friends, neighbors. Choose the best  quotes from the journey stories to go on the posters.
• Contacts
  Lisa Link, lisa.link@umb.edu
  Brad Bleidt, Bradford.Bleidt@umb.edu
  Suamy Ventura, Suamy.Ventura@umb.edu

4:15 – 4:30

Examples of public art, on this page and also actual posters Lisa will show you.

4:30 – 4:50

In-class journalism practice – interviewing each other.

4:50 – 5:00

Questions and discuss art assignment #1.

Art take-home activity #1

1. Photography:  Artist selfie – something you want for your blog page.
2. Drawing: MBTA ad sketches & observations. What ads  do you look at on the MBTA? Which ones do you like? Why? Take notes about colors, fonts, photographs,  and  words the ad designers chose. Which ones make you stop and read them? Why? Sketch roughly your thoughts on the ads  that you see on the horizontal card card spaces over the seats and  the vertical space behind the driver spot.

Bring to  next meeting.