Final Week 8, by: Sydney Petty

Last Week our team spent the week continuing to paint the mural  so we meet our deadline of April 1st.

This week, our time is going to be spent accomplishing the following:

• Giving The Mural Its Finishing Touches
• Sealing The Mural
• Packing up the mural panels to be photographed and for our FREE UNVEILING EVENT on Saturday, April 2nd @ 11:30 am.
• Location = Chic Lounge, 131 N. Jackson Street
• Appetizers and Soft drinks will be served
• Meet the artists and see the beautiful mural for the Franklin Square Apartments in the Lindsay Heights neighborhood.

The employment skills we will be practicing this week are:

• Communication and collaboration
• Initiation and self direction

 This is our last week working as an Artworks Interns. I'm really going to miss working with the people I worked with, I really enjoy myself here. I worked with some great young people and the best artist ever! The program is not how I thought it would be. This is the best job I have ever had!

Week 7: By Naomi Tabor

Last week we accomplished the following:

1. Spent 1 hour with  our Career Coaches to cover our 3rd Topic
2. Finished half-tone shadows & darks
3. Began blocking foreground shadows & darks
4. Continued foreground & darks

Employability Skills Practiced:

• Giving & Receiving Feedback
• Communication & Collaboration
• Professionalism
• Creativity & Innovation
• Initiative & Self-Direction

Task we will accomplish this week:

1. We will be add to our blog so that you the viewer will know whats going on this week
2. Continue whites & highlights
3. Finish whites & highlights
4. Rework background foundation
5. Finish background
6. Begin clean-up & final touches
7. Continue clean-up & finals
8. Finish clean-up & finals
9. Critique & viewing with Melissa

Employability Skills We Will Practice:

• Communication & Collaboration
• Professionalism
• Creativity & Innovation
• Initiation & Self-Direction

Personal Thoughts:
My exprience at Artworks taught me more about painting and drawing. I met some very nice people. I would like to keep continuning doing art in the future...

Unveiling Event Announced! Join Us April 2nd!

                 You are cordially invited to the unveiling of:

Purpose, Persistence, Prosperity

A Community Mural for

Franklin Square Apartments

Sponsored by:

Maures Development Group, LLC

Brinshore Development, L.L.C.

When?   Saturday, April 2, 2011 at 11:30 am

Where?  Chic Lounge, 131 N. Jackson Street

   (Across the street from the Italian Community Center)

     Free Appetizers & Soft Drinks will be served

  Come see the new mural and speak 
with the artists!

Mural Design By:

Lead Artist Ras’Ammar Nsoroma

& ArtWorks Interns from Lindsay Heights

Week 6: By:Tevin Brown

Last week we accomplished the following tasks:

1. Spent an hour with our Career coach to cover our 2nd topic
2. Blocked in flats in the foreground areas
3. Continued blocking rest of mural

The employability skills practiced last week:

• Communication & Collaboration
• Professionalism
• Creativity & Innovation

We will receive informal performance feedback from our Lead Artist
We will continue creating a blog to keep you the viewer updated

Tasks we will be completing this week.

1. Spend 1 hour with our Career Coach to cover our 3rd Topic
2. Finish half-tone shadows & darks
3. Continue foreground shadows & darks
4. Finish foreground shadows & darks
5. Begin molding, mixing, & adding texture to foreground
6. Continue molding, mixing & texture
7. Begin adding whites & highlights

The employability skills we will practice this week:

• Giving & Receiving Feedback
• Communication & Collaboration
• Professionalism
• Creativity & Innovation
• Initiative &Self-Direction

Personal feedback:
Im Tevin Brown, an Intern at Artwork and I have learned so many employability skills in just these six weeks of work. I am also learning new art skills. We're mixing colors, trying new tones, and shading, all of these things are new to me and I'm just going to enjoy learning new things and doing new things.This is a good experince and I'm going to take advantage of it.

Week 5: By Quincy Adams

Last week our team accomplished the following tasks:

1. Reviewed painting techniques/paint in half-tones.
2. Continued painting half-tones
3. Finished painting half-tones and background images

Employability skills practiced:

• Preparedness
• Creativity & innovation

 This week we will accomplish these things:

1. Upgrade the blog so you the readers will know what's going on at Artworks.
2. Spend 1 hour with our career couch to cover our second topic.
3. Begin blocking in flats in foreground areas of the mural.
4. Begin outlining foreground images with black paint.
5. Continue outlining the edges of the paintings.
6. Finish outlining foreground images with black paint.
7. Begin blocking in half-tone shadows & darks in background
8. Continue blocking half-tones in background images

Employability skills practiced:

• Communcation & Collaboration
• Professionalism
• Creativity & Innovation

Personal Feedback:
I enjoy working with Artworks For Milwaukee. I feel they are preparing me to be the best employee that I can be. I have never painted a mural before and thought it would be more challenging than it actually is. One thing that is more difficult than I expected is taking criticism. But I understand the importance of being a team player.


Feedback From The Lead Artist `Ammar Nsoroma:
The project is going great so far. We are past the minor obstacles  like coming up with ideas to sketch  and we are progressing steadily now. We are working on painting in the images and the mural is coming together although is still in the "underwear stages." The team members are growing in their understanding of mural work and it is good to see.
`Ammar

Week 3 by: Shontavius Willaby

The tasks we completed last week:
1. We updated our program blog, which helped us practice professional communication skills
2. We had  formal performance evaluations, which helped us practice giving & receiving feedback
3. We spent 1 hour with our career coach to cover our 1st topic, which helped us practiced  communication & collaboration, preparedness and professionalism skills.
4. We finished painting foundation layers on all the mural panels
5. We began to transfer image outlines to the panels
6. We continued to draw outlines on boards (tasks 4-6 helped us practice project management skills)

This week, we will accomplish the following tasks:
1. We will make any needed corrections to mural panel outlines
2. We will finalize drawings for mural
3. We will mix half-tone colors for background images

The employment skills we will be practicing this week are:

• Communication & Collaboration
• Critical thinking & Problem solving
• Preparedness

Personal feedback:
This program has changed me a lot. It's very interesting. I thought we were only going to be painting everyday but instead we have all kinds of tasks to do each day like painting, sketching and drawing (etc). I didn't expect the mural to come out the way it has so far -- we are all working together to hopefully have it done the right way in 8 weeks. I'm so happy to be a part of something this wonderful. I'm excited to be working with my Lead Artist -- he has really encouraged me to push myself harder everyday.

Week 2 By Demond Sims-Harris

Last week, our team accomplished the following:

1. We worked on design skills,which allowed us to practice creative & innovation skills by creating the sketches

2.We did more brainstorming  and sketching for images,which allowed us to practice critical thinking and problem solving skills

3. We researched images for murals, which allowed us to practice initiative & self-direction

This week, our team  is going to accomplish the following:

1.  We must prepare to get ourselves to and from Manpower, Inc. for our Career Coaching Kick-Off, which  allows us to practice preparedness skills.

2. We will also meet our career coaches and will learn about our marketing ourselves and our work skills

3.The last thing we will practice is professionalism and communication skills when we work with our Coaches.

Personal Feedback:

My perspective of this program, is really excellent so far... there has been no problem...I thought we were only going to paint everyday, but instead we are doing all kinds of jobs tasks like taking out garbage everyday. The most difficult problem i have with ArtWorks is to enjoy my art because I do not feel confident about it. Like when I am painting or sketching, its a little bit difficult, because I don't always have any ideas or comments to say.