Bios! and other Important stuff!

Hi folks! if you weren't here today please type up a very short (like 2 sentences max) bio for the brochure. Something like: "Larissa Norman is an illustration student at UVU. Her BFA show, called In Transit, will be taking place in Fall 2011." Please get these to me ASAP! Thanks guys!

also, our second workshop is on Saturday at 1:00! Please come if you can. Either way make sure you are working with your mentees because we are almost out of time!

If you haven't sent me your artist statement yet, please do! I am going to start posting them on the official blog in the next few days.

If you haven't sent me your mentee's statement yet, please do that too!

Please make sure you are working on your artist packages!

Artist Package

A site with info about what is needed for artist packages

First Workshop

Hi folks! Today we had fun with the workshop and there were awesome treats (Thanks to Alex's wife!) and pizza (Thanks so much, Amanda!) Hopefully those who couldn't come today will be able to come next Saturday or have been able to work with their mentees at other times. I got a few pictures (though they aren't great) so there is some documentation. Please make sure to get an artist statement from your mentees and get those permission slips signed! Thanks to those who have sent and posted their artist statements so far. This week I hope to start putting them on the the official event blog. I was thinking that maybe with the artist statements I should post links to websites or blogs of those that have them and would like the extra bit of promotion that could give. If you want that please let me know what link I should put!

I have managed to put a few posters up at grocery stores in Orem and AF though I haven't had a chance to get all the ones I took put up yet. I hope those who took posters are getting an opportunity to put them up and spread the adverting campaign out!

My mentee and I are having fun working on a short comic book! We are designing characters and then will put together a comic a few pages long. I am very impressed with her work and passion for art! She is already planning to go on to college and do art there so I am really thrilled to work with her!

Hope to see you all on Tuesday and I hope you all have had a good and productive weekend!

couldn't find linda

:(  I waited around at Linda's office on Friday (today) and didn't catch her. I guess she was in and out of meetings all day. I sent her an email, and am hoping to get the card or number for pizza tomorrow. But no promises.

Artist Statement
Amanda Bronson

The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality- Paul Cezanne. I express and define myself through my artwork. My personal tastes, ideas, values, beliefs, and desires are revealed and may therefore become shared via the viewer! The things I value are diverse. Yet connection is everything! Physical connection with the earth, connection with our carnal being, our spiritual desires, connection to others. I am a steward and a protector, I stand for agency and development. As others grow and reach new heights my heart sings. I love service and nurturing all beings. Adventure, discovery, and to live this fascinating life is my desire. There are puzzles, hidden meaning, and endless possibilities to be explored.  What better way to achieve these objectives than through art.  My intuition guides me. Connection with my senses, connection with others. My art work expresses the universal truths that what is is and this world is our play ground. What connects us, we share a world, but this world it is interpreted differently within us all. Does my interpretation resonate with your being. Do you want to cry or sing? Are you touched? Are you alive? What do you see within your eye?

My Artist Statement

pas-sion:

an intense desire or enthusiasm for something

The first feeling of passion I can remember was in Charleston, SC, where I moved to at the age of seven from Roswell, New Mexico. The feeling I had of utter wonder and joy at the abundance of flowers and sweet fragrances Charleston had, has stayed with me throughout my life. The beauty is palpable, and my passion for beauty started there at a very young age.

I was an adult before I realized I had an ability for drawing. Upon entering UVSC in 2006, I started taking watercolor, oil painting & drawing classes, along with figure drawing and painting. Through time and experience, I discovered my love of the vibrance of bold colors. They speak to me and help me speak to all who view my work. I seek to bring a sense of joy to the viewer as putting color down on canvas or paper brings to me. I have also since found a love for sculpting and ceramics, something I hope to perfect in the future.

Announcements

Hi guys!

First of all, this Saturday (March 26th) at 1:00 PM we are planning to meet with mentees at UVU. Please contact your mentees and get them to come to meet at our usual classroom and bring whatever materials you need to work with! Alex is planning to bring some treats! Please try to come to this because we are running out of time! We hope to do this the next couple of Saturdays so we can get this done in a couple of workshop blocks.

Send Larissa your artist statment and a short bio about yourself (or leave it as a comment here) so that she can put together some info about us for the official event blog

When promoting the show, please send people to the official blog for info, don't send them to this blog.

Please contact Danae if you want to do screen printing and she will let you know about what you need to bring for that.

We need to get short bios from mentees and also info on their t-shirt size. we will try to get that on Saturday but if you are meeting at another time please get that info to Larissa and JD ASAP!

Thanks!

Official Blog updates

I am working on updating the official event blog and trying to decide what kind of things should be put on it. One thing I thought would be good would be to post our pictures and artist statements! I will need to get a hold of the photos that were taken and also if you could all get me digital copies of your finished artist statements that would be great! The copy team can also look them over and make sure there aren't any big errors in spelling and grammar. I would also like to help promote each of us by having links to our personal websites or other places where our work could be viewed or we could be contacted.

I would also like to maybe add some photos that have been taken of the process of us putting together the show and working with the mentees (though their faces shouldn't be shown in the photos).

If you have any suggestions for other things to put on the official event blog please let me know!

Final Press Release

I have already sent this out to Alex and the marketing team but I figured I should post it here for everyone. It doesn't have all the contact info filled in but otherwise this is the final press release:

Utah Valley University

For Immediate Release

Contact: (ENTER NAME)

Tel. (ENTER NUMBER)

Cell Phone: (ENTER NUMBER)

Email: (ENTER E-MAIL)

IDENTITY ART SHOW

I am Utah. I am UVU. I am a mentor. I am a student. I am art. I am Identity.

“Open Your ‘I’”

Join us on April 9th, 2011 at Provo Town Square for the exciting opening of this show. As you stroll through the gallery of works, listen to the engaging tunes of the band Holy Water Buffalo, appreciate the talent of local artists, and enjoy the night life of Historic Downtown Provo. We as students have been encouraged to “open our ‘I’” and discover who we truly are. We hope that the artwork displayed will not only showcase our talents, but our personalities as well. So please come and enjoy a night of art, entertainment and discovery. “Open your ‘I’” and be identified!

Francis Moore said “I’ve grown certain that the root of all fear is that we’ve been forced to deny who we are.” The Identity art show is a project designed not only for the senior Visual Art students at Utah Valley University to identify who they are as artists, but to also help provide youth within our community with the opportunity to work with artists to discover their own identities.

We as artists and students will display not only our own artwork, but artwork created by local youth in a professional art show. The Identity show will be sure to gather attention not only for the historic downtown Provo area, but more importantly to art as well.

If you would like more information on this topic, or to schedule an interview with Alex Bigney, please call (ENTER NAME OF head of marketing) at (ENTER PHONE NUMBER) or e-mail (head of marketing) at (ENTER E-MAIL) or visit the official Identity event website at http://identityartshow.blogspot.com

Lakeridge school mural

Regarding tomorrow (sat) Monica said they will be doing a fresh layer of paint in the morning at Lakeridge, then they will be tracing and painting the murals of instruments on the wall of the band or orchestra room. So you can come around ten or ten thirty to help with that.  If you want to come for the entire day we would love to have you is what Monica said.  Her cell is 603.769.1602

Monica

From: Yocom, Monica

Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 8:25 AM

Subject: Transformation Event Details

Hello Volunteers,

We are excited to announce our new partnership with Lakeridge Junior High in Orem, UT and thank you for registering to participate in the school transformation event.   

Volunteers will execute projects that the school's administration identified as the top needs.  These projects include:

Paint the Orchestra Room which will go hand in hand with the $21,000 instrument donation that will be presented to the students on March 16th 

Refinish the teacher’s desk in the orchestra room

Organize supplies in the orchestra room 

Display vinyl motivational quotes throughout the school

Provide a thorough cleaning of the school windows 

 Please be sure to read this email in its entirety as it details important information regarding the school transformation event.  Please plan to arrive at Lakeridge Junior High School in Orem on Saturday, March 12th at 8:45 AM.

Once you arrive, please go to the registration desk, located at the main entrance of the school, to get your name tag and other information regarding the event. 

Volunteers should plan to arrive at 8:45am.  (team leads need to arrive at 8AM) volunteers may plan to leave around noon

Event DetailsLocation: Lakeridge Junior High 951 South 400 West Street

Orem, UT 84058-6733Date: Saturday, March 12Time:  9:00 a.m. - noonTasks and Volunteers Assignments:

Attached are the volunteer assignments for that day.   Media:

There is a chance that media could be in attendance anytime during the event. Please remember that Fidelity associates should not speak to the media. Instead media should be directed to Monica Yocom or Rob Witt. T-shirts:

Fidelity Cares t-shirts are being shipped to you today and tomorrow.  For those of you indicating you will be bringing family members, their shirts will also be shipped to you.  Please wear the t-shirts to the transformation event. 

What to Wear:

Please wear your Fidelity Cares t-shirt, jeans, shorts and close-toed shoes (such as sneakers).  No flip-flops please as your task assignment could change and we want to ensure everyone is dressed appropriately for any task. Remember, your participation in the transformation event on Saturday, March 12th is critical to the success of the day.  We have several projects to complete and only 1 day to complete all the work, so it’s imperative that each volunteer is available that day and arrives during the scheduled time.

Breakfast items will be served (coffee, donuts, etc).  Water, Gatorade and snacks will also be provided throughout the day.

We look forward to working with each of you this weekend.  Thank you in advance for your participation in this very exciting Fidelity Cares event!

Posters

EDIT: put the updated posters up!

First off, today we had Frank McEntire come to talk to us. Also, the t-shirts are finished and look great! if you weren't in class today make sure you get your shirt next time!

We have posters finished to use to promote our event! I am going to post them here for us all to enjoy:




Thanks for doing such great work, Design team!

hello

I spoke to Jim Godfrey the director and let him know about our event, and he said he would try to make it if he could. He said it sounded fun. Jim would also like to approve of the poster and t-shirt logo before they get printed. (if I or design team could email him that would be awesome) He also said they would donate towards our printing costs around $200 and he would give me the code for printing in the reply email after I sent him the pics of our poster etc. He also mentioned to not go over the amount he gives, apparently last year they went over. Go figure right? He said they should let you know how much it costs before they print on campus and that the RECEIPT would NOT go to linda moore, but rather back to his office on the 5th floor of GT to Stacie Owens at the front desk.

I was thinking we could do 80 shirts with logo at around $4.30 a shirt times 80= around $350 approx. I included shipping in total. I looked at food from BYU To-Go and the food prices were decent, depending on how much we get or what we get, it could be anywhere between $100-300, donuts, cookies, cheese and meat and cracker trays, brownies, drinks, paper plates, etc.

see you all tomorrow!!!!

Press Releases

I have consolidated the two kinds of press releases and put in all the details I can. I figure for the contact information our marketing people will probably want to put their own info so they can be contacted for further information? I will be e-mailing this to Derek as well so hopefully he can get some things done with promoting the event. I added the official event blog's url to the contact info at the end as well and I will update that blog ASAP to reflect the most recent information about the show! I also had my sister, who is an English major at UVU, look these press releases over and help me edit a few things. If you have any questions or concerns with this please let me know ASAP!

Utah Valley University

For Immediate Release

Contact: (ENTER NAME)

Tel. (ENTER NUMBER)

Cell Phone: (ENTER NUMBER)

Email: (ENTER E-MAIL)

IDENTITY

I am Utah. I am UVU. I am a mentor. I am a student. I am art. I am Identity.

“Open Your ‘I’”

Francis Moore said “I’ve grown certain that the root of all fear is that we’ve been forced to deny who we are.” The Identity art show is a project designed not only for the senior Visual Art students at Utah Valley University to identify who they are as artists, but to also help provide youth within our community with the opportunity to work with artists to discover their own identities.

We as artists and students will display not only our own artwork, but artwork created by local youth in a professional art show. The Identity show will be sure to gather attention not only for the historic downtown Provo area, but more importantly to art as well.

Join us on April 9th, 2011 at Provo Town Square for the exciting opening of this show. As you stroll through the gallery of works, listen to the engaging tunes of the band Holy Water Buffalo, appreciate the talent of local artists, and enjoy the night life of Historic Downtown Provo. We as students have been encouraged to “open our ‘I’” and discover who we truly are. We hope that the artwork displayed will not only showcase our talents, but our personalities as well. So please come and enjoy a night of art, entertainment and discovery. “Open your ‘I’” and be identified!

If you would like more information on this topic, or to schedule an interview with Alex Bigney, please call (ENTER NAME OF head of marketing) at (ENTER PHONE NUMBER) or e-mail (head of marketing) at (ENTER E-MAIL) or visit the official Identity event website at http://identityartshow.blogspot.com


Narrative Style Press Release:

The root of all fear, according to Francis Moore, is that we’ve been forced to deny who we are. The Identity art show is a project designed to provide local youth with artist-mentors in the form of Utah Valley University's senior visual art students. This collaborative process will yield an increased understanding of and appreciation for the individual identities of everyone involved, as well as new and exciting works of art proclaiming who we are, which will be on display starting April 9th at Provo Town Square.

This celebratory exhibit opens to the public on Saturday April 9th at 7:00 PM, and gives us each the amazing opportunity to better understand ourselves and our incredibly unique community. Come enjoy the engaging music of local band Holy Water Buffalo, appreciate the talent of local artists, and show your support for our local high school teens who are brave enough to put their identities on display. It will be a night to remember, full of art, entertainment and discovery. “Open your ‘I’” and be identified!

If you would like more information on this topic, or to schedule an interview with Alex Bigney, please call (HEAD OF MARKETING) at (PHONE NUMBER) or (HOF?) at hof@marketing.com or visit the official Identity event website at http://identityartshow.blogspot.com

Class Notes 3-3-11

Lakeridge High-Mural painting opportunity

Management Team:

Spoke to Linda Moore about selling t-shirts and purchases

Number of shirts?

Refreshments?

BYU-brownies, eclairs, etc.

Alison’s neighbor-pastry chef

Costco-veggie trays, etc

Drink- punch, water, cocoa?

Band-making confirmed for the 9^th!

Design Team:

Shawn got poster ready

make sure content is correct (Alex will look it over)

get brochure started

awaiting approval (Alex)-Printing

Shirts=Tuesday

Sell shirts for $10 –how many should we make?

Copy Team:

If you need any specific copy, let us know

Marketing Team:

Get in touch with people

Press Release (Narrative Style, Second Draft)

The root of all fear, according to Francis Moore, is that we’ve been forced to deny who we are. Identity 2011 is a project designed to provide the at-risk youth of Summit High School with artist-mentors in the form of Utah Valley University's senior visual art students. This collaborative process will yield an increased understanding of and appreciation for the individual identities of everyone involved, as well as new and exciting works of art proclaiming who we are, which will be on display (INSERT DATE) at (INSERT LOCATION).

This celebratory exhibit opens to the public at (INSERT TIME), and gives us each the amazing opportunity to better understand ourselves and our incredibly unique community. Come enjoy the engaging music of local band Holy Water Buffalo, appreciate the talent of local artists, and show your essential love and support for the Summit High teens brave enough to put their identities on display. It will be a night to remember, full of art, entertainment and discovery. “Open your ‘I’” and be identified!

If you would like more information on this topic, or to schedule an interview with Alex Bigney, please call (HEAD OF MARKETING) at (PHONE NUMBER) or (HOF?) at hof@marketing.com



-David. Sorry I’m not there today guys, I’m pretty sick. Let me know what you think!