Pop Art: Leveraging Youth Art

Our young people LOVE the Apple Create Pop Art Lesson! We initially ran this activity with our Middle & High Schoolers as a decompression lesson during finals week!

We partnered up and captured fun pictures and then they got to work; editing & drawing to create awesome digital works of art!

   

That got us thinking. How can we leverage this art to create and impact beyond the lesson? For years, we have had members draw thank you cards to share with donors, partners, and board members. However, we realized this was a great way to modernize that system!

Now, members went back in and followed the same steps, capture a photo, edit, and mark it up.

   

This time, they added a thank you note!

 

Finished Postcard: Smiling Student with Thank You Sign
     
Finished Postcard: Smiling Student holding Thank You Sign

Our members had a blast creating these post cards! The last step was creating the back with a personalized message to the recipient of the card and getting them printed!

4 replies

November 21, 2024

So good. What I so appreciate here is how you started with an Everyone Can Create project and modified to suit your needs--decompression, gratitude...Art is so powerful both in process and product. Thanks for sharing (and for creating your profile). Please share more of your innovations.

December 05, 2024

I love the purpose of audience! The youth were given an important task with the knowledge that best work matters!

December 09, 2024

Our members were SO excited when they saw the finished product. They were even more excited to hand them to our Mayor and Commissioners when they came for a tour!

December 09, 2024

The Everyone Can Create Projects create an amazing starting point for programming! They are so easy to tweak and adjust to fit member and program needs! Every Activity or Lesson we run starts from an Everyone Can Create or Everyone Can Code Project. You just have to be willing to dig in!

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