Above: Jenny Bird

EMU STUDENT WHEAT PASTING IN DETROIT

 

Project_01 Hierarchy and Expression is a project that aims to challenge the students initial type and compositional skills learned through intro classes. Not only was the goal to build upon current visual compositional skills, but also to achieve a growth in research and concept.

 

We set out by researching socio-economical issues pertaining to the Detroit Metro area. Some of the students ideas were grounded in Detroit’s recent issue of filing for bankruptcy. Others include linked issues such as the DIA’s current predicament of possibly being forced to sell some of their collections.

 

The project not only goes through the fundamentals of visually and strategically composing a poster, but also includes some very real and heated issues. Taking the project one step further we created a scenario outside of the classroom in order to use cheap materials (wheat paste, bond paper prints, screen print color overlays.) to appropriately reflect the interest in issues steeped in financial crisis. In collaboration with Lincoln Street Art Park the students pasted their posters in a sanctioned area, thus learning a unique and valuable experience of embracing the opportunities that Detroit and its population have to offer, regardless of its current crisis.

 

LIST OF STUDENTS:

-Jermaine Dickerson

-Jenny Bird

-Brent Duncil

-Nisreen Young

-Joe Guenther

-Rachel Bouley

-Andrew Gariepy

-Julia Lubas

Done