Product Creation
School Mural Project
My project is to design and paint a mural about the theme of imagination for our school.
Murals have been around for centuries. Ever since humankind has been there to make them, murals have been painted, etched, and carved everywhere. From the walls of caves to the walls of modern day buildings, murals have been made all throughout time. They are art pieces that can be found all over the globe; East, West, North, and South.
Murals can serve a number of different functions, though their purpose varies from culture to culture and from one time period to another. From the prehistoric cave paintings at Lascaux, France, to the murals of ancient Egypt, India, Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome, murals can serve as anything from celebratory pieces to ceremonial pieces. In Tibet, many murals, (ancient and contemporary), are created for reflective and meditative Buddhist practices. In England, Germany, and France during the Baroque period, royalty and rich art patrons had allegorical and biblical murals painted on the walls and ceilings of their palaces or luxurious homes. These rich patrons had themselves or their loved ones inserted in the paintings as a way of capturing their likenesses.
In modern, urban environments everywhere from Berlin to Brooklyn, graffiti has become a form of mural art done by city youth. Wall art has been used to spread political propaganda and to carry on the culture of mass consumerism in places such as China, Russia, New York, and Milan, to name a few.
Some of my favorite muralists include John Harragan and Jonathan Ribera. I like Jonathan Ribera’s style of painting and the themes he uses in his murals. I like the fantasy creatures he includes in his murals. I also like John Harragan’s work and the fact that he can make murals using different styles. -NP
T-Shirts
A Paideia project is a type of study where a student produces something of value and grabs the attention of individuals outside the classroom environment. Paideia projects are made to reach out and connect to the real world and to the community.
My Paideia Project is making shirts for the senior class. The shirts will be an expression of the Class of 2010. Each shirt will be different and will grab someone's attenion. -David
Growing and Selling Plants to Raise Money to fund KIVA Microloans
Jaime
Since I start going to church, I found out that the feeling of making people happy and giving them a better life made me also happy and be a better person. Having luck, I found out that for my senior project I could help people, and that’s why I choose to start growing plants and raise money so that with this money I could make loans to people who need it more than I do.
This idea came to me when my teacher showed me a page call KIVA where you can loan money for people who need it for their jobs or to make their house stronger after natural disasters.
Since that day, every time I can I try to loan money to people around the world with the money that the school gave me. I have loaned money to people from India, Peru, Afghanistan, Venezuela and some small cities in Europe.
To start growing plants and keep them safe at school, some of my classmates and I spent almost six hours building a green house. This gave us more fun time to share as mates.
To sell all of those plants I will go around and tell the teachers and moms what I am doing and how all those people are going to be so grateful to them. I will also explain them how KIVA works so that they can be sure that their money is going to be useful and not just waste it in useless things. The price for the plants because they are not that big is going to be $2.00 per plant and once I sell them all the money.
Muhammad Yunus a Blangladeshi banker is a very good example of what I’m doing but at a higher level, he won a Nobel Prize in the 2006 for his effort to create economic and social development from below. In 1976 during visits to the poorest households in the village of Jobra near Chittagong University, Yunus discovered that very small loans could make a huge difference to a poor person. --Jaime