Hey I'm Troy I'm a junior here at West Liberty in the Art Education
program and I'm gonna take your walkthrough my day
And now we're going to head into F209 creative arts to look at our dynamic
compositions for 2D Foundations We see a little bit of positive
and negative yeah like you see this is part of the right and then has negative
is the negative as interesting as possible? I chose art education at the beginning because
of summers off and I thought grading art would be really easy but over the course of my first
semester I realized it's a lot deeper than that it's about teaching a way of creative thinking a
way of honest unique self like teaching your own unique self because every human's thought process
is different and through art your appreciation for visual cues are all different per person
I would like to continue on and teach in the high school setting and then eventually I want
to work my way into my master's and then end up teaching hopefully at a university
Now we're heading into Intro to Exceptionalities So we're going to look into a tribe in groups at
your table you're going to be looking into this tribe and discussing how you feel about this tribe
With the education courses you're going to have in class lectures
per usual with other education majors some entry level some maybe further on
and then just growing in field components as well so you will be teaching in a field environment
in a classroom with other teachers and learning about other ways you can teach students
Now we're heading into our studio course for Drawing 1 with Mr. Fencl
So we went through the whole process of how we start right keeping this contour nice and light
don't be heavy-handed because then we need to take that contour and eventually push it
into the drawing as we develop our value In the art program you start with your
fundamental courses first you're going to be taking studio courses so main course is like
drawing one 2d foundations and then you're going to grow from there into print making
You don't build the like photo realism from first and then take
drawing one they would have you build through drawing one then drawing two and three
and then so on and then you would get to the more complicated and diverse stuff
Now we're going to head into Art Theory and criticism with Dr. Grubbs
Today we are going to actually do a project okay today's teaching is about critical thinking you
did a worksheet on how do you teach art history through a critical thinking lens
The art education program at West Liberty is really like a big family
I was taken in as a transfer student and Dr. Grubbs took me in and he really showed me the
path of my art career further being a design student and working through education as well
Right now I'm pulling out my materials for my solo art exhibition well not solo technically
but my piece is in the exhibition for the National Art Educators conference
For my exhibition project that I'm working on it's for the
national art educators conference it's coming here early October
I'm hoping to enter three pieces just to show in the gallery that we have in our fine arts center
I've really never exhibited any pieces and it's really going to be my first time
doing that and I'm really excited for the opportunity to be able to do that
For my other independent work I like to do a lot of creative design on
adobe products such as like InDesign Photoshop I like to do a lot of apparel work
I still have a huge passion for fashion design and merchandising it was my original major that I fell
in love with but for unforeseen circumstances I had to transfer and honestly I think it was
for the best because I could still continue that passion alongside my degree with art education
It being a much smaller college I thought I wouldn't get the social experience
I would have had at my D1 university originally and I thought I would have gotten singled out
and honestly would have slipped through the cracks a lot easier than I would at
a large university but honestly I was embraced like a member of the family
and it made me feel extremely comfortable and it made me feel extremely confident and when you come
here don't think that you need to change yourself You can always be yourself and the community here
at West Liberty will accept you for you regardless so if you have any fears don't
because this is a community in and of itself and the Hilltopper nation will gladly have you
All right thanks for following me through my day
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