Through Our Windows

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Fowler, Brianna
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2011
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“My project began with the focus on relationships and how people working and creating art together can develop a sense of community. Participants were invited to portray stories through windows and share in the art experience. This project bound people in a relationship with each other based on everyone working on their own work and bringing it together as a whole. Elissa Cederleaf Dah wonderfully stated "Collaborative work becomes a visual manifestation of a conversation between people" Erich Fromm believed that for humanity to be healthy, people must explore their world artistically. "Collective art is shared; it permits man /women to feel one with others in a meaningful, rich productive way" I support the meaningful interaction between people through creative expression. New things can seep through the cracks that we can't always articulate making art a unique way to share ourselves and our life experiences. Storytelling is integral in cultivating common ground among people. Art is a way for humans to tell our stories, which are rich in diversity, and portray the different ways we all relate to one another. Working alongside one another, the common threads in all of our expressions were exposed. Throughout this project, we established and experienced the elements of community in different ways. There was a common feeling of the bigger picture we were all a part of. In the moment we felt community as we worked alongside each other; and now the final product, having all the pieces shown as a collective, we fall back into the same sense of the shared experience. This process of art and community nourishes me personally, and gave us all something new . I was given a new sense of myself in relation to this community and was able to see the power that is collective expression. Art theorist Grant Kester said it best when he explained that "Artistic identity is based in part in our capacity to listen openly and actively, and to organic scenarios that maximize the collective potential of a given constituency or site." Observe and learn from these images that tell the unified story of the members of a community learning from each other. So please step into our community's house, and allow yourself to look inside outside and through our unified efforts.”
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