#LetsCreate

Start by creating a list of four events that happened during a memory. This list will be what to base your drawings off of in the comic.

Then, create a small sketch of what to draw in each panel of my comic on a new piece of paper.Before sketching, make four rectangles to represent each panel of the comic.

Grab a new sheet of paper and fold it in half twice so that there’s four rectangles. These rectangles are going to be the comic panels.

Using a pencil, drawing the scenes you just sketched out. Next, outline the drawings with a black marker to make the lines easier to see.

Then, erase any pencil lines that are still visible.

Finally, use markers and color in the comic. You can also just keep it black and white.We would love to see your comic strips so submit pictures of them to this link https://forms.gle/xqotX4kXDDYaVkWn7 and we’ll feature them in our upcoming videos!

Camera & Personality: Taylor Denaburg, Natalie Ortiz
Scriptwriter & Metadata: Robyn Guo
Curriculum Researcher: Taylor Denaburg
Editor: Umpha Koroma
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Content created by ArtistYear AmeriCorps fellows:
Camera & Personality: Jillian Lacey
Scriptwriter & Metadata: Kylie West
Curriculum Researcher: Olivia Caro
Editor: Lanae King

Explore examples of collage artists at the Tate https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/c/collage

Examples of different book covers, structures, and ways to fill them (artist books) https://wsworkshop.org/collection/

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Share your covers here! https://forms.gle/xqotX4kXDDYaVkWn7

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Share your work with us here! https://forms.gle/xqotX4kXDDYaVkWn7

Music from bensound.com

Content created, written and produced by ArtistYear AmeriCorps writing fellows:
Camera & Personality: Alex Wasalinko
Scriptwriter & Metadata: Meg Walters
Curriculum Researcher: Michele Bedoya
Editor: James Meadows

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Please submit writing responses to this video’s prompt here: https://forms.gle/xqotX4kXDDYaVkWn7

Kaveh Akbar’s Orchids Are Sprouting From the Floorboards via poets.org: https://poets.org/poem/orchids-are-sprouting-floorboards

GIF art contributed by Hannah Langford Berman. For more of her work please visit www.littlekingdoms.ca

Created by ArtistYear AmeriCorps Fellow teaching-artists: Gabby Bing, Matt Crump, and Tash Hajo.

To learn more about ArtistYear, an AmeriCorps program, visit www.artistyear.org.

All images used in this video appear in accordance with noncommercial reuse guidelines unless otherwise noted ​here​: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PUR9X2husw19gztgh7aRbfhdnQKcs36R13Qmw9blIw8/edit?usp=sharing

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Alt Text & Image Description in Order of Appearance
1) Glimmering water
2) GIF of phases of the moon
3) Statue of Liberty
4) Indya Moore at New York Fashion Week with keepsake earrings honoring black trans women.
5) Car in Philadelphia with Bismillah “In the name of God” license plate. One might say Bismillah before eating or in surprise.
6) painting of crowned boxer with insides exposed, handwritten text and small smiling faces in background. Ali Vs Frazier Fight, oil paint on canvas
7) Pile of shiny, multi-colored wrapped candies in room corner. Untitled (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) by Felix Gonzalez-Torres in 1991, made to represent the exact weight of the artist’s partner who died of AIDS.
8) Black and white 1950s photo of white physician examining black man
9) Color image of Buddhist monks holding alms bowls
10) Fire ants linking together to form a structure
11) Private shrine of pieta in an Arizona yard
12) Film still of scene from Moonlight of the protagonist being taught to swim.
13) View of Safa and Marwa hills, walked during the holy pilgrimage for Muslims.
14) Black and white image disability rights activists in 1977 San Francisco rally outside the federal office building
15) Los Angeles storefront church with ailes of yellow folding chairs, wooden brown pulpit in front of a light blue wall painted with doves. Flowers and green leafy plants furnish the space.
16) Color photo image of Asian women with acid burns posed in a dreamy rest
17) Color image of water protectors at Dakota Access Pipeline in behind large image of indigineous man and in front of lit letters that read, PROTECTORS
18) large bloom of small jellyfish in deep blue water
19) photo image of pale pink supermoon against a black sky
20) close up image of Kara Walker’s wall-sized piece, Slaughter of the Innocents, made with cut paper, acrylic and graphite on canvas. They depict fairy-tale like images of the violence of slavery, the Jim Crow-era, and domestic scenes of Black life.
21) pink and red-toned illustrated image of a curly-haired Black girl on her side in bed staring at her phone while a crowd of demons smile deviously over her shoulder
22) Frida Kahlo’s self portrait painting, The Wounded Deer, in which her antlered head is placed on a deer’s body shot through with nine arrows as she continues to move through the woods
23) colorful mosaic image of Black and Brown Yoruba angels at The Village of Arts and Humanities in North Philadelphia
24) Image of Black trans woman with bullhorn protesting the killing of Muhlaysia Booker. Yellow sign in the background reads, PROTECT BLACK TRANS WOMEN
25) color image of blue, orange and pink healing crystals
26) Still image of a Black person in a teal sequined dress and red lipstick mid-spin before a ballroom crowd
27) Image of woven replica of the Confederate Truce Flag that formally ended the civil war
28) Image of french mime performance l’apres midi d’un foehn in which colored plastic bags in the shape of little people or snowmen dance around a man dressed in black wondrously holding an umbrella

Skeleton images and introduction animation all made by Maggie Phillips.

Part of the ArtistYear Channel’s CHA CHA Series: Connecting Human Aesthetics to Creative Health Awareness! Designed for high schoolers at all levels of experience.

Brought to you by the ArtistYear AmeriCorps Fellow Dancers: Briana Marshall, Jordan McKnight, Gabi Montoya, Maggie Phillips, and Kirsten Sherick.

#letsstartcreating