Big Art is awesome! It's awesome! It's wonderful!
So I'm Liz and I work at CPAP. This has been for the culmination of a year's worth of big art programming.
We've just been really impressed not only with the Columbia College students but also with the elementary school students and the quality of their work as well.
This is something that we want to keep doing.
The Columbia College students, you know, when they came in on Tuesday, they were great with the kids.
They had some, you know, they had some challenges and they had some struggles and it feels really great to watch them sort of work through that.
And then to come back on Thursday and just be confident and knowledgeable and on top of it and to see how much growth has happened in the course of a week is amazing to watch that happen.
I'm Abby and I'm a first year student. The kids are great. They are so creative and they're really funny and impressive so I would definitely suggest doing this to anybody who likes working with kids, likes doing art projects.
Hi, my name is Damon McCacken. I'm the first year experience coordinator. I really love kids. My parents are educators so I'm always more than happy to come out and hang out with kids and this is a much better way of spending my Friday afternoon than being stuck in the office.
I'm Kelly. I'm a student at Columbia and I decided over spring break to be a part of big art. I worked with the K-thru parent graders, kind of talking about our dreams and what comes from that and centered on this piece of art, Tears of Hope.
I guess being at Columbia and studying poetry and really hitting the art form down, sometimes you get away from the element that this all started out when you were in elementary school for me telling stories and getting back to the sense of play and having fun with it was a really good way for me.
I'm Walter Ornelas. I'm one of the teachers here at Crowns. It was definitely a good time to see everyone work together and ultimately create a body of work that we're proud of. I think for the instructors they definitely get to touch kids' lives at the end of the day.
I mean, what do you really do when you're touching kids' lives? The kids benefit a lot because many times, especially with the structured curriculum, they don't get to express themselves the way some of them need to. So the arts, we allow them that avenue to express themselves, to have some positivity in their life.
It's just reinforcing their identity. Especially with this project, we did a lot of identity work. Kids are bombarded with pop culture and some of them tend to lose who they are. So when you do projects like this, it really brings them back and helps them focus on who they are as a person.
