The Person of the Year project was tied to both of my World history and Art Class. In world history we were matched to individuals that represented either African Americans or women; based off of previously learning the subject of equality in that class. We were then required to write an article about that person and explain why they are the Person of the year for Miami Valley TIME magazine. I was assigned to a women named Judy Chessen, a rabbi who works with her community to expand her church. In my Art class, we designed and carved stamps for the cover of the magazine to go along with the article and demonstrate Judy Chessen and present her achievements in a formal, creative, and appealing way. When starting this project we were focusing on existing time magazine covers to become familiar to the typical theme in the POTY cover. After feeling comfortable with what is expected we than began to search for pictures of our person or find images that symbol not only strongly to that person but what they have achieved.

 

Below to the right is my final piece for both my Art and World History class. The article I was creating in world history was a very important resource I could relate to when I am confronted with a boundary in my Art class. For example for the longest time I couldn’t find out what made Judy Chessen a successful women. So based off of that I had no idea how to come up with a artistic piece that symbolized her. After my research I soon discovered all of the positive impacts she has brought to Jewish community.

 

My biggest challenge during this project was finding one image that could really fit for everything that Judy Chessen has done and the leader she is. Plus growing in my creativity was a crucial key factor to have the ability to recreate that image in a creative way that draw the eye of an out sider while still portraying the meaning. I overcame my challenge by sitting back and brainstorm how I could visually demonstrate everything I can about her while keeping the clean, simple look of a time magazine cover. After getting multiple ideas on paper I took a little bit from each and end up creating a collage of black and white pictures of Judy in a small area in the middle of the paper. I then created a stamp of a the Star of David, which happens to be a very simple yet interesting mark of Jews, using a bold lines of purple ink, I stamped over the black and white photos. I love to draw and create art pieces on my own, I have a very set style of drawing and during this project I had to step out of my box to meet the expectations and limits of professional and simple Time Magazine.

 

I think that now knowing how to create my own stamp can help later on when doing a project that will involve a lot of creativity in how to appeal to a set audiences. When getting a blank board to carve out of your usual boundaries can be a little intimidating. However with my growth in creativity I was able to push past those boundaries and expose new ideas and reflect different thought processes. For example I have created many drafts of many ideas for what should symbolize Judy Chessen. In the end of taking some feedback from peers, some research, and even some personal past ideas I came up with an overall layout to the cover that not only meets the requirements, but a cover that I feel accomplished with.