LILY LONSDALE - 2024 SENIOR CAPSTONE PROJECT
Effective Communicator and Collaborative Worker
Throughout AP Art, I have grown in being an active listener and collaborator. This has helped me to feel more confident in offering advice when my classmates ask for help with something.
Every year in art class, we have a few critiques. These serve as an opportunity to get advice from peers on the art you are working on, as well as a way to better connect with classmates you might not normally talk to. I have done a lot of these over the past two years in AP Art, and I’ve found that they helped me to become a better listener. It is nice to take the time to observe and give advice to classmates about how they can work to improve their art and skills. Learning how to give pointers to my peers during critiques has taught me how to better help them when they are having difficulty working on one of their pieces. For example, I’ll sometimes offer to help someone take reference photos, or give them advice on how to alter their piece so it turns out how they want it to.
I feel like critiques have also helped me to become a better collaborator. By giving and receiving advice, I have gotten used to hearing input from my peers. This has helped me to improve my ability to use suggestions from other people in order to enhance what I am working on. Being able to work with my classmates during critiques helped to prepare me to collaborate other classes at SLV, such as Modern Literature. For this collaboration, we made art pieces that the Lit students wrote poems about, and then we made pieces based off of different poems. Afterwards, the products of our collaboration were displayed at various shows. This past year, I was in both of the participating classes, and it was really cool to see both sides of the project.
I am glad that we took the time to do critiques in art class, since they have helped me to improve my communication, listening, and collaboration, as well as other skills that will be useful to me in the future.
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