Class Notes 1-27-11

Sorry for the delay in posting this. These are the notes from last class. Please post any thoughts or ideas you have about this stuff and if I ever got anything wrong please let me know!

Possibly buy domain name to help promote event?

Set up a more professional blog to help promote the event-see it here! I will put more information on it as time goes on and get it set up to look consistent with our theme! It will be a formal place for us to send people for information about the show.

Design Team:

Presented Identity logos! We are very excited about what they came up with:

Logo:

Possible poster idea:

Copy Team:

Short, medium, and long press releases have been drafted but are still being revised. I will post them here and we would appreciate any input you all might have on this! There are a couple of different versions here. We are still working on perfecting it and coming up with a catchier opening.

Long Press Release

“I’ve grown certain that the root of all fear is that we’ve been forced to deny who we are.” according to Francis Moore. Life is a constant struggle to find out who we are. As we open our eyes to new levels of interests and talent we find that they can be used both for the gratification of one’s self and one’s community.

Identity is a project designed to help provide the youth in our community with the opportunity to work with mentors in the form of local artists. We anticipate an unprecedented attendance for Identity (#), where student mentors will be showing their work alongside their mentees in a collaborative effort to enrich the lives of everyone involved. Regardless of the path in life we choose, creativity i,s an important strength that we want to share.

Medium Press Release.

“I’ve grown certain that the root of all fear is that we’ve been forced to deny who we are.” Identity is a project designed to help provide the youth in our community with the opportunity to work with mentors in the form of local artists. We anticipate an unprecedented attendance for Identity (#), where senior UVU art students will be showing their work alongside their mentees in a collaborative effort to enrich the lives of everyone involved.

Short Press Release
Identity (#) is a project designed to help provide the youth in our community with the opportunity to produce and show art alongside their mentors, the senior art students of UVU.

Short Version:
Come and be “Identified” at the 2011 Gallery Stroll, “Identity”, presented by both the senior class students of Art and Visual Communications at Utah Valley University and the students of Summit High School. Identity is a project designed to help provide the youth in our community with the opportunity to find themselves alongside mentors in the form of local artists and students. As you stroll through the gallery of works, listen to the tunes of the unprecedented band, “Holy Water Buffalo” and enjoy the night life of Historic Downtown Provo. So, come and be “Identified!”

Medium Version:
Utah Valley University students are proud to announce the 8th annual Art and Visual Communications senior seminar mentoring youth program. The students of Alex Bigney's senior seminar class will be mentoring troubled youth with cooperation from the Boys and Girls Club of Utah Valley. This year, we anticipate an unprecedented attendance for "Identity" in which students will be showing their work alongside their mentees in a group effort to enrich the lives not only of themselves but of their youth counterparts and the surrounding community. As you stroll through the gallery of works, listen to the tunes of the unprecedented band, “Holy Water Buffalo” and enjoy the night life of Historic Downtown Provo. We the students of Utah Valley University Arts and Visual Communications are grateful to have the opportunity to put this event together and anticipate a momentous outcome.

Marketing Team:

Contacted Mari Raymer who has close connections to many important newspapers and other media outlets here. (Danae will post more)

Professional grant writer contacted

ALSO! Remember: We are planning to meet the teens we will be working with this coming Friday-The 4th! Please don't forget to make note of this!

Pop Art

As previously mentioned, today in class we will be choosing a logo for our show. We have decided to go with a Pop Art type of theme. The design team gave me some of the examples of Pop Art images that they showed the class. I am posting some of them here so that we can have an idea of the direction we are going. Please enjoy and come to class today to vote on the logo we will use. These are just examples of pop art, not of the logos themselves.

Click on the images for larger versions.

Class Notes 1-25-11

These are the notes for what we discussed in today's class:

Management and Advertising:

Mark Koelbel- see the previous post about this for more info

Herald Contacted

Just waiting for news release

Mike Rigert

Deseret News

KLVV

Design:

Next class, January 27^th, the Design Team will be presenting what they have created for our Identity logo. The class will vote on these options and decide what logo we want to use. If you want to have input in this, please make sure you show up!

Some Pop Art examples will be posted to the blog soon.

Copy:

The Copy team plans to use the mission statement they came up with and create from it a long, medium, and short version to use in promotion of the event.

Larissa's sister is an English major here at UVU and has offered to help with editing needs.

Lauren will be focusing on managing the facebook page and Larissa will focus on managing the blog from now on.

IMPORTANT! Summit High School meeting planned

We are planning to meet the kids we are going to work with at Summit High School next Friday, February 4th between 12:30 and 1:00. We can meet at UVU and carpool, if needed. The school is located nearby, across the freeway entrance and Geneva, kind of near the MATC. Here is a map and directions to help you find it.

News from Sherry

Sherry posted this to the facebook group and I am reposting it here:


I got in touch with Mark Koelbel at KUTV. I'll try to copy and paste his response in this space for all to read.

Hi sherry,
Please e-mail me at the end of march and remind me of the event. I will do my best to get a crew there. In the meantime I will take you e-mail to one of our meetings and discuss the possibility of doing something before the event to highlight this program.

All the best...

p.s.
Mark Koelbel's KUTV "Ride for Life" leaves TIMP Harley on the morning of July 10th (sun) and goes to Wendover for a concert at Peppermill concert hall. 15,000 dollar poker run jackpot. Spread the word...more information coming soon on tv and radio.

-----Original Message-----
From: Sherry Murdock [mailto:sherrydeanm@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 10:49 PM
To: Mark Koelbel
Subject: KUTV Web Email Inquiry

Your Submit ID: 98756

Your Full Name: Sherry Murdock
Your Email Address: sherrydeanm@yahoo.com
Your Phone Number: 801-427-4278
Share Your Comments: Hi Mark, Do you remember when Timpanogas Harley opened and a bunch of us went on that ride on the "loop" to SLC? I was the one on the blue Ninja that looked a little out of place. Now that you may (or may not) have some idea of who I am, I will get down to why I'm writing. I am a student at UVU and in my Senior Seminar Class our assignment is to mentor troubled teens and teach them some of what we are good at. We are all art students so we'll be teaching them what we know about design or painting or whatever our particular field is. At the end of the semester we'll hold an event for the public that will show their work and try to get support for them when they graduate. We want them to come away from this feeling better about themselves then perhaps they ever have. We'll hold this event in the Provo Towne Square on April 1, 2011, the same night as the Gallery Stroll, hoping to get a lot of business from that. What I would like you or someone at KUTV to

do for these kids is to cover this event, or at least announce it on the news a few times so that it gets wide media coverage. I know it's asking a lot, but I'm not asking it for myself. These are kids that have basically been in one foster home after another, who have been in trouble with the law, and some of whom have no one to love them and make them feel they are worth their weight in gold the way my parents made me feel deserve it. These kids need all the help we can give them, so I'm asking a lot, because they need a lot.
Thank you for your consideration, Mark.
Sherry Murdock

Class Notes 1-20-11

These are the class notes I recorded on January 20th. if anything here is inaccurate or needs to be added, let me know!

Management Team:

We want to be connected to the gallery stroll so we want to do the show the first Friday in April.

April 1^st 2011

History Downtown Provo

Contact Richard

Downtownprovo.org

801-377-5700

News of Downtown

Raffle tickets – prizes from other donors

Dean of Advancement

List of donors

Entrepreneur school of the arts website-Kristine.stewart@gmail.com

Get in touch with William McCreary to get information about Provo Towne Square

Inform design team prior to visiting the site.

Design Team:

Design inspiration: Pop Art

Paint splatters

JD was granted admin privileges on the blog so he can post some images

Design of the facebook page

Copy Team:

Mission Statement:

The desire to define ourselves and make our mark on society is a part of our nature as humans. Frances Moore once said, “I’ve grown certain that the root of all fear is that we’ve been forced to deny who we are.” The first few years of a person’s life are filled with the struggle to find out who they truly are. Interests and hobbies take new meaning as those skills are developed into talents that can be used both for the edification of one’s self and one’s community.

Identity is a project designed to help provide the youth in our community with the opportunity to find themselves alongside mentors in the form of local artists and students. This year we anticipate an unprecedented attendance for Identity, where student mentors will be showing their work alongside their mentees in a collaborative effort to enrich the lives of everyone involved. Regardless of the path in life we choose, creativity is an important strength that we want to share.

We will boil this down to a smaller version as well

If anyone needs any specific copy written please let us know!

Marketing Team:

Holy Water Buffalo has agreed to play for our event!

We are considering getting more bands to play

Newspapers:

Derek will get in touch with a reporter from the Herald paper to do a story

Square, City Weekly, Slug

Posters:

Get a hold of highschools, find out where to put posters

TV:

Possibly approach KSL

Danae’s father works in the film industry and may have connections to help us out

Maria Carr-TV Host

Internet:

How do we drive people to it

UVU’s event calendar

Radio:

KRCL

High School radio stations

Chamber of Commerce (newsletters?)

A separate blog will be created for promoting the show in the near future. This blog will be used for the class to plan with.

Will post Holy Water Buffalo video on the blog

Document our progress throughout

Identity Facebook Group

Please join the facebook group for our Identity show!

Identity 2011

Welcome to the blog for the Identity 2011 event! UVU students are now planning this event. These art students will be teaming up with highschool students to put on an art show. More details will be coming soon!