Caroline’s Senior Project

For my senior project, I’m going to spend my time on several different independent studies related to personal passions.

The biggest one is a graphic novel project where I’ll interview my neighbor (who is like a grandmother to me) and illustrate the stories she tells me about her life. She’s traveled all over the world, lived through the Great Depression, and taught English in Japan at an army base during WWII, among other things.

While I’m working on that, I will work in Makerspace with Dr. Urbano making a comic template (which is a rectangular stencil made out of clear acrylic with interchangeable lines to help make panels more efficiently). This will be helpful for future projects as well as the ones I’m working on now.

Additionally, I’ll be taking art classes once a week at Washington Community Arts Studio, and I’ve arranged with the owner to rent out space in the studio three times a week to work. While I’m there, in addition to the graphic novel project, I’ll work on graphic adaptations of poems (which I’ve done for English class before). When I’m not at the studio, I will work in nearby libraries and cafes. I’ll also spend time making a collection of live sketches in parks, nature reserves, museums, etc.

As well as studying art, I will spend my down time studying poetry and becoming more familiar with it. I will take my observations and incorporate them into my own work.

I will also study Arabic with Mrs. Hassan. It will work mostly like an independent study, but we will have check-ins a couple times a week. I hope to study Arabic in college, as I really fell in love with it this year.

My goals from this project are: to immerse myself in the world of art and poetry and pursue it deeper than I could in school. I will write, read, draw, and observe daily. I will also get to know myself better as an artist. By the end, I hope to have expanded my taste and created many things I am proud of.