{"id":2180,"date":"2023-04-24T12:46:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T16:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/?p=2180"},"modified":"2023-04-24T12:46:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T16:46:39","slug":"put-a-bird-on-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/put-a-bird-on-it-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Put a Bird On It (Again)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On Tuesday of this week, I was at Harris House with Bethany where we met two other staff members to discuss the bird project we\u2019ve been working on. They were able to find slightly different materials from what we had been using, so they wanted to redo some of the mobile. Bethany was not particularly happy about this since we had already spent a lot of time on the project and we had to go back and undo the paint and wires for the rods. Additionally, she did not agree with some of the artistic changes that would be implemented. Originally, Bethany was drawing inspiration from Alexander Calder<\/a> to create this mobile but feels like her vision has not been brought to fruition (between the materials she was given by maintenance workers and the new suggestions this late into the project). In the end, she is still helping but actually removed her name from the project and is letting the other team members take more liberty with what they want to do.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was able to see through this experience how collaborators on a project can respectfully disagree and how this type of situation may be navigated appropriately in the workplace. Personally, there are parts of the mobile being changed that I like (such as adding a stiffer type of wire) and parts that I don\u2019t like as much (such as adding laminated fake leaves). I did help on Thursday and Saturday by taking off the wire I previously put on and repainting the rods to look like tree branches at the request of other team members. I also helped trace more birds to be added and someone else will be cutting them out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to my other tasks on Thursday, I also helped Bethany draft an email to the project managers at the Doris Leeper Spruce Creek Preserve. We asked if they would like to collaborate on a project to make maps\/directions more accessible through signs and physical maps or QR codes while incorporating info on Leeper since she is directly correlated with both the preserve and ACA. She is not going to send it out yet since she needs to check on another project about the preserve involving ACA that may influence this, but we have the email saved for the future.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday, I came to nature sketch club where Bethany had set up a still life and was teaching people how to go about drawing it. She always tells people that they are free to sit inside or walk around outside, leaving the choice to them. I think being open to people doing their own thing is really important when it comes to workshops like this, since many people attending feel like they do not have significant artistic skill but want to try it. Allowing them to choose freely what they want to do takes the pressure off of doing the \u201cright\u201d thing and feeling confined to the \u201cassignment.\u201d On the other hand, giving them some sort of direction (such as setting up an optional still life) can help people who may not know where to start. Regardless, she remains very encouraging to those attending. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday of this week, I was at Harris House with Bethany where we met two other staff members to discuss the bird project we\u2019ve been working on. They were able to find slightly different materials from what we had been using, so they wanted to redo some of the mobile. Bethany was not particularly … Continue reading Put a Bird On It (Again)<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101052,"featured_media":2181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101052"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2182,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions\/2182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}