Blog 6: Second Interview

Content:
The purpose of the second interview is justify you mentor as an expert in the field. Thus, you will be asking at least 5 questions about their background of the organization or the company where they work for.

-How long have you been interested in Mexican art? What media do you use to paint? Does your work have a specific meaning or style to it? Do you sell your work? Do teach or are you willing to? What is your job for the company you work for? How long have you been working with this company?

Blog: 4 EQ

The Pentagon:
(1) Positive Statement: What positive thing happen as a result of what you have completed so far?
- On positive thing that has occurred so far was that by doing my research on my topic I was able to find different types of art that had not heard of. Allowing me to know more about it and expand my research.


(2) EQ Content: Pick a piece of research or your interview. How has it helped you improve your understanding of you topic?
- Yes, my interview has helped me improve my understanding of my topic by teaching me more about the history and the origins of it. My interviewee taught me about the different types of artist and styles, but also the variety of topics I can focus on.

(3) What has worked for you so far in the senior project?
- I have a lot of different arts to choose from allowing me to research more about the so that I'm able to focus on one specific topic.

(4) What hasn't worked so far?
- It has been hard to find research because it is very limiting making it hard to find what is required. Finding a mentor has been a little bit difficult because I think I want to focus more on the folk art instead of just Mexican art in general.

(5) Finding the Value: Based on your experience so far,

• What possible question or questions come to mind regarding what you would like to study this year (don't list questions about the instructions relating to the senior project)?

- What techniques are there in creating the different types of folk art? What roles did the artist play in the society? What sets an art piece apart from other pieces?

• What is your end goal this year with your senior project (don't say get a good grade or gain knowledge, put specific things you want to accomplish in you senior project this year)?

- My end goal this year is to become a better artist and expand my network. I would like to go to Mexico and officially learn how to make the different types of folk art and by doing my senior project on Mexican Art  I am able to learn the history and the basics of folk art.

• Who would you like to talk to next? Why?

- I would like to talk to someone who works in a Museum of Mexican art so that I'm to learn from them and introduce me to the different artist that exhibit their paintings there.

Blog: 5a Science Fair Problem Statement

1. Mexican Folk Art
2. Paper mache a type of folk art, tears really easily depending on the techniques used to make a sculptor. I plan to solve this problem by seeing the order it's made or the types of materials that people use to make a paper mache sculptor and come up with the best technique from preventing it to tear.
3. I'm not quite sure the second problem. But i'm trying to figure out what I can do if the problem was the paint that they use on folk art.

Blog 3: Interview Preparation

1. Who do you plan to interview? Why?

Well I don't have an interviewee yet. But I'm focused on interviewing someone who really understands the art of Mexico or even the types of techniques that they use. I want to interview an artist that paints similar to Mexico artist. Interviewing someone that knows a lot about Mexican art will help me pick a specific topic to choose for my senior year and will also introduce me to other styles or techniques that I have not been exposed to.

2. You have to ask 5 questions. What additional questions do you plan to ask?

I don't plan on asking additional question because I think the 5 questions required can give me an extensive and general understanding of my topic. My main concern is to interview a Mexican artist that has the experience, education and creative thinking as an artist of Mexican decent.

Blog 2

a. My topic is Mexican Art, I chose this because it's part of my culture and I've been surrounded by it my whole life. I was taught to appreciate the different kinds of mexican art and mediums. I've grown up listen to stories about amazing mexcian artist that I have been curious to know more about.

b.

• Ipoly citzen: I plan to complete all my work and show what ipoly has taught me all these years because you have to be a good Ipoly student by not procrastinating. 
• Effective Communicator: I plan to interact with artist to teach me more about my topic this will make me more effective as a communicator because I will understand the communication skills required to talk to someone important or being able to ask questions with out hesitation.
• Effective Learner: I plan to use the skills to really get to know my topic and eventually  creating my own art bu using the techniques that I learned this will make me a more effective as a learner because I will be able to show what I learned to the students.
• Effective User of Technology: I plan to get enough information by researching the history and the artist this will make me more effective as a user of technology because I'll be more wise when it comes to using the internet.