Lily Yeh is one of the most outstanding educators of our time. Please listen to her carefully, for you can learn a lot from her. As a community organizer, artist and teacher, she has much wisdom to impart. This week's questions are designed to help you focus on different aspects of her speech at the 2009 Bioneers Convention.
Question #1:
Describe Yeh's first large-scale community arts project, the Village of Arts and Humanity. A minimal response to this question would describe who participated, where it is located, how it was done and how long it took. A better-than-minimal response would include your favorite quotes from her discussion of this piece.
Question #2:
How does Lily Yeh describe community involvement? What is her attitude toward teaching?
Question #3:
What is Barefoot Artists? Where did it take place? What is the art project, specifically?
Question #4:
What does she mean by "genocide...is happening in everybody's heart"?
Question #5:
How does Yeh communicate with people without knowing their language?
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1.Children were the people who worked with her on her first project. Later men joined in to rebuild other deserted locations in communities. She mentioned that some of the men helping were men involved in drugs who saw her and her project as a helpful tool for them to get out of their current lifestyle. She saw them as necessary to make her vision come true. So the projects were helping in more than just making the community beautiful, but also making the people realize their own beauty and worth. She worked in communities in North Philadelphia. The lots were rebuilt using the stuff left behind in the actual lots themselves. They recycled the abandoned lots to make them into art for the community. She spent eighteen years working on projects in the Village of Arts and Humanity. I really liked when she was talking about the slow progress she encountered when it came to the community building, she said “Three steps forward, two steps backward. But in that one step forward we can change our environment.” I like that she is able to still see the progress and impact she was having even after she described it as a slow and difficult task.
ReplyDelete2.She described the community involvement as a slow progress. The involvement started with children in the community and slowly adults joined in. But a little later in the speech she described the involvement as life changing, both for her and her art as well as for the members in the community who saw working on these projects as a way out of their previous situation they felt stuck in. I think that her attitude toward teaching is that it is a community learning experience. The people involved are learning new things artistically as well as about themselves and she learned from the people she had encounters with. The community as a whole grew through this experience.
3.Barefoot Artist is a group of people whose goal is to help bring some life back into a mourning community. They started by introducing art and soon that turned into helping provide the village with resources like cows, goats, and water systems. Barefoot Artist is located in Rwanda and it was in a community of grieving people who survived those who were killed in the Rwanda genocide. The project was started by the help of children and then community asked her to bury the bones of the victims in their community. The art project was for and became the Rwanda Genocide Memorial Monument.
4.I think she means that sometimes people let the anger they feel sometimes build up and control their thoughts and actions in an unhealthy way. When we let this anger control our actions we are not only poisoning ourselves but it affects others around us. This in turn is not only destroying our own attitudes but destroying others around us, causing us to commit genocide on others even if it is not intentional. Our anger is like a domino effect if we do not control it.
5.She communicated with the people through art. She was able to show a mourning community color and light during a dark time for them. She brought beauty back into their world.
1. Yeh's project started with children helping her to accomplish her project. Later in the project however, troubled men on drugs and alcohol came into the picture and helped with the project. The project took place in North Philidelphia. This project started with rebuilding lots. They took the ruins of the old lots and turned them into new lots using the old lot remains. This in itself created a true sense of beauty and art within the community. However, this project did not come easy or over night. This project took a grande total of eighteen years to complete, which in my opinion is quite impressive! "I want to bring beauty to the destitute" is the most powerful quote to me. It shows her dedication and the love for her project because she wanted to create beauty in the community and beauty in the men and children that participated.
ReplyDelete2.The best word that can be used to describe the project was that is was slow progress and it did not take off as quick as it should have. I guess it could best be described as being slow because at first, children were the only ones participating in her project then slowly some adults started to participate. She claimed that it was life changing for her and the people she worked with and also the people in the community because they all had the priveledge of experiencing the art being built. I would have to stay that her attitude about teaching is extremely positive. I believe she felt accomplished being able to teach the people she worked with, learning about the people she worked with, and overall creating a sense of accomplishment in the community.
3. The Barefoot Artist is an amazing group of people who have inspired other people to help bring some life back into a mourning community. They were able to do this by introducing amazing art, which in return supplied them with things that they needed for survival such as food. This group is located in Rwanda and it was made of people that were grieving the loss of the loved ones in the Rwanda genocide. Children helped to get the group started and the project became the Rwanda Genocide Memorial Monument.
4. I think she means that people allow their emotions such as anger and saddness control their lives and make them live in an unhappy and unhealthy way. When a person is driven by their emotions, they sometimes make choices that they cannot take back that effect their lives as well as the lives around them. This causes others to commit genocide on others even it if is not intentional because emotions do pass from person to person. They are contagious, sometimes to contagious.
5. Yeh communicated with the grieving through her beautiful art. Through this she brought beauty and happiness to a community that was full of sadness and darkness.
1. Yeh's first project took place in North Philadelphia and it took about 18 years to finish it. Her main participants were her guide, Joseph Williams, and children between the ages of 3.5-13 years of age her first two years on the project. After that, some of her helpers included people who had been looking for a safe place to go to to hide from their destructive lives of drugs and alcohol, and they found a sanctuary in this art project. The project was to turn old lots into useful and beautiful lots, alot of which was made possible by the art form of mosaics.
ReplyDelete2. Yeh's description of the project was that once it was finished, it got alot of recognition and praise. However, before it was finished, she was criticized for wanting to participate in that type of project in that type of city. She views teaching as a way to change everything, from a person's life to the entire world, which I completely agree with.
3. Barefoot Artists takes place in the country of Rwanda. In 1994, there was a mass genocide in the country, and hundreds of thousands of people were killed. The families had no way of properly burying the remains of the dead, so Yeh accepted the project to build a memorial. The walls are painted with purple at the base for a sign of mourning, and the colors of Rwanda's flag at the top. Visitors can go down into the bone chamber, open up the caskets, and actually see their loved one's bones. This project has also helped get the families of Rwanda goats, cows, and anything that they made known was a dream of theirs to have, especially clean and healthy water.
4. When Yeh says we all have genocide in our hearts, she is talking about any vices we hold inside: greed, jealousy, hate. They are all poison on our relationships with other humans, and we have to actively hold it to ourselves and keep ourselves alert and on guard so as not to act on these vices.
5. The way Yeh communicates with people who do not know her language or she does not know their language is through art. People are attracted to bright colors, so she had them draw their dreams and she transferred those drawings to the wall in the project, and has since then been making those dreams come true.
1. The project, taking place in inner city North Philadelphia, has been an eighteen year journey, starting in 1986. She wanted to work with children ages 3 ½ -13 regardless of the thoughts of others. She wanted to work together with the children and “put our heads together like broken pieces of tiles.” They were able to recreate their world by working together. Not only were children involved in the projects, but men that had once relied on drugs were involved in the project as well. She was working with the various groups to change their world and community. She wanted to transform abandoned lots. While some scoffed at her idea to transform these lots, she was diligent and passionate in her work to create beauty and hope in her pieces. She said, “in the darkest of night in the most devastating place, that is the place most ready for transformation.” This really hit home for me in its honesty and determination to make change. She went to the heart of a devastated place to create change, instill hope, and invigorate a community. The pieces consisted of beautiful and intricate mosaics. She wanted to look towards what they could do and not look at what was there before. It was truly a transformation and a reminder for those involved of the beauty and value that can be felt in the community. They utilized vibrant and expressive colors to celebrate life and beauty. Yeh has great dreams for teaching and “light[ing] the horizon” for the lives of children and their communities.
ReplyDelete2. She describes community involvement as a slow progression. She first targeted children but it later spread on to the adults. While children were eager to participate, the adults took some warming up. But, the project did take off and had fantastic results. The process was a life altering process for all involved. They were able to work on the projects and see an abandoned lot transformed into a place of beauty. The people involved could relate this transformation and hopefully apply it to their own lives. Lily Yeh was able to “light up the horizon” as she so eloquently puts it. She was truly a beacon for these communities. She has an attitude of hope and working together. She stated that “in that one step forward, we can change the environment.” It is nice to see someone who wants to teach others holding this mentality. She wants to create change and utilize the strengths and weaknesses of all involved.
3. Barefoot Artist was the project that worked in Rwanda to revive the community. They had been riddled with tragedy and genocide, and the group hoped to bring life back to the community. The people wanted the bones of some of the victims of the genocides to be buried. So, the community teamed up and Yeh helped them create a beautiful memorial. The bones were buried in a casket and the ground was adorned with the beautiful vibrant mosaics, a gazebo complete with landscape path to surround the area. It created a beautiful memorial to those who lost their lives. They wanted to “twibuke” the destruction and violence. My favorite quote was when she said, “making art in destitute place is like making fire in the dead, cold night of winter. It gives out warmth, gives out light, and rekindles hope.” Her projects created beauty and hope within these barren and devastated places. She saw beauty even when nobody else did and she helped create the visuals for all to see. Also, the project also spread to help bring cows, goats, and water wells to the community. These are priceless assets in the community.
ReplyDelete4. I think she was addressing the issues of the resentment, the greed, and our own self- righteousness that often gets in the way. We let these issues fester inside and grow and grow so that we are not only poisoning our lives but we “pump poison into the environment” as well. This creates the hatred and hopelessness that Yeh works so hard to combat. It is, therefore, each of our jobs to fight against negativity and hopelessness. We must become the light that guides people so as not to destroy ourselves and our communities.
5. She was able to communicate through her art and the beauty. She wanted them to see the beauty and feel inspired. She allowed the children to paint and create public art. Therefore, the art becomes rooted in the community. Yeh respected and honored the people and helped them create a place of hope. The community painted their dreams, such as motorcycles and computers. This is perhaps greater communication than could have been achieved through talking.
1. The project in North Philadelphia took place over an 18 year span. Yeh worked with young children no matter what others thought. She wanted to “put our heads together like broken pieces of tiles,” and improve their lives. Children worked on project with men who were dependent on drugs and impacted the community as well. She was passionate enough to turn abandoned lots into something of beauty, where mosaics and vivid color to transform the dark place. Her dreams for teaching and helping others transformed the lives of the children and the community.
ReplyDelete2. Yeh says that involvement by the community is a progression that takes steps. The first step was to target the children and later the adults. For the people involved the process was life changing. The community worked on improving the abandoned lot and Yeh added light to the place. With Yeh’s dreams and goals, she was able to shape the place with her belief that “in that one step forward, we can change the environment.”
3. Barefoot Artist was the project in Rwanda to help motivate the community. Genocide and tragedy swept the community and the Group wanted to give hope back to the people. Bones were buried and Yeh helped the community create a beautiful memorial with mosaics a gazebo and lovely scenery for the dead. Yeh’s projects created beauty and hope within a dark and desperate place. She saw beauty when nobody else did and she helped bring animals and a water well to the community
4. I believe that she was answering the issues of the greedy and resentful part of us all. Us as people let issues happen and continue to grow to the point that we “pump poison into the environment.” Yeh works against this hopelessness and fights against the negativity. Everyone needs to look at Yeh and live by her example. The world would be a much happier place!
5. Yeh communicate through the beauty of art and the inspiration it provides. She allowed the children to paint and create public art, while incorporating the community. With respect and care, Yeh created a place of hope. By letting the community paint their dreams, the art was able to speak louder than words and communicate better than simply talking.
1.Lily Yehs’ “private journey made public” started out her being very scared, but continued because she could not let herself “die and not amount to anything”. Her twenty-year journey began at the Village of Arts and Humanity. People told her that children would destroy everything…but she wanted to work with children, which led her to her guide! She believed that the children (ages 3-13) responded with energy, so “through creativity and imagination” they recreated their community. In North Philadelphia in these abandon lots; she saw it as “ endless resources to create their new future”. She believed that the places with the most devastating of times were the ones in need and most ready for transformation. Her guide came to get away from drugs and used this project as a safe haven. She was not only helping him, but he helped her realize her dream as well. “All of her weakness became her strength for the success of the projects.”
ReplyDelete2.From doing these projects, she found her “innate light, her role is to light others pilot light, so that they shine together, and light up the horizon.” Others first told her that it would be hard, but once they started, and she began to help those in need find a safe place, they began to look positively upon it.
3.In 2004, she began barefoot artist in Rwanda. Her guide told her all about the suffering and pain, so she went. “She had to experience the all of the death, destruction first. We must not pump the poison of grief in our hearts.” They asked her to help them properly bury their dead. So she wanted to make mosaics, because she believes “we are all broken in some way or another”. She created a beautiful mosaic for the ones they mourn.
4.When she says “Genocide.is happening in everybody’s heart”, she is saying that we all have are own personal genocide within ourselves. We are all dealing with different types of pain, grieves, reassessments or hate and we have to learn to understand the darkness in life, so you can transform into something new and bright.
5.Lily Yeh communicates with these people through artwork.
1. After eighteen long and amazing productive years in North Philadelphia, Yeh was able to transform a community that was filled with people that cried out for help and for a second chance to be relieved from their addictions to drugs and alcohol, but drugs were definitely the more common of the two. Lily Yeh began her long journey with children. I believe children have such a free spirit and extremely encouraging spirit. I also think a child's attitude towards an experience or an idea is way more powerful than an adults because children see things in a more positive way. So she started her journey with children. They would take the lots that were destroyed or in need of major repair and repair them with art in some sort. However, this did not take off as fast as she had planned...infact, it was so slow that Yeh herself was not sure it was continue. But through the power of the project, adults that were addicted to drugs and wanted a new life started to help with her project, so her project began to bloom into amazing art as well as postive attitudes. "I want to bring beauty to the destitute." Yeh cared so much for the community. She wanted the community to have a sense of pride as well as for the people living there to have a sense of pride.
ReplyDelete2. As I said in question one, and as many others have said, Yeh stated that the progress of her project was slow. I really do not know why a project like this would take so long to take off because I enjoy doing community things to help enhance the community. I think what she did, and how she kept pushing even though it was slow is absolutely incredible. Yeh had such a positive teaching attitude. She always looked on the bright side of things, even when it was not going as well as she thought it should. She learned from the people that she worked with and learned about the community as well. She always was open to new experiences as well as hearing other peoples' experiences.
3. After a community has suffered a tradegy, in many cases, the community needs a little push of motivation or a huge dose of lively hood. The Barefoot Artist organization that started in Rwanda, is an organization designed to give a community that is in a grieving period a dose of life and love. The best way to bring life to any place in my opinion is through art, which Yeh did. By using mosaics, Yeh was able to create the things that the people in the community grieved for and bring it back to life. In my opinion, that is incredible.
4. "Genoide is happening in everybody's heart." That is a very powerful quote because it can apply to anybody at anytime. In my opinion, I strongly believe that people are driven by their emotions. When a person is sad, they often shut themselves out from the world. When a person is happy, the celebrate with the world. So I believe this quote to mean that when we have saddness within ourselves, we often make decisions that we might not normally make because we were driven by our emotions. However, with every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. So when a person acts sad and angry and interacts with another person, then the person that they interact take their sadness and anger too. It is contagious, emotions are extremely contagious.
5. Like many others have said before me, and as I have stated in my previous questions, I think art is a world language that anybody can undrstand whether they are def or speak another langue, art is where humanity comes together as one. I believe Lily Yeh uses art to communicate with people because it is not only the most expressive, but the most powerful. If you want to make an impact on someone, then draw them a powerful picture, take a picture with meaning, and so on. Art is powerful, more powerful then most understand.
1. Yeh’s first project took place in North Philadelphia taking 18 years to finish (or when she moved to another project). Throughout that time she took abandon lots. She first started with children helping her, later other adults that used to be on drugs and such started helping. I think the coolest project she did was the meditation lot, with the tree of life. It was a really motivational area and I wish I could have access to an area of that source.
ReplyDelete2. She described community involvement as a slow progression. I saw this as many the ripple effect, that first a few kids would join in and then slowly others would join and jump on the bandwagon. She was very clear about that learning is most important and that people just need a little push to do great things.
3. The Barefoot artist took place in Rwanda. First she helped bring a mourning community together with the memorial of bones. This was a haunting yet beautiful mosaic that helped people mourn and very forget what happened. Then she helped the villages out by painting on walls things that were important such as goats that give milk and water. What was so cool about that was her friends helping provide goats and water and again you see the ripple effect of how much the community was able to grow and flourish because of this.
4. She is talking about the “demons” inside all of us. Everyone has to battle with greed, and selfishness, and loathing. This is talking about how we all have to fight though our own demons and hateful thoughts and ideas.
5. Art is a universal language and this is how Yeh communicates. All community’s can understand similar pains and challenges like death, hunger, and violence. Art is away to be light and inspiration throughout the communities to help them overcome and stay positive about any situation.
1. Yeh’s first project was located in North Philadelphia. In the beginning of the project the artists were children with different needs. As the project went on a man who had faced many drug problems began to help, later many more joined. The project was done in old lots and they used many different materials from the lots and other places to make mosaic art. The project made old lots look beautiful as well as helping tons of children and men get through difficult times. The project took a total of eighteen years to complete.
ReplyDelete2. Towards the end of the project the community was greatly involved. Although it took some time to do so. The children were not hard to involve, but it took her some time to get adults involved and eager to be a part of the project. She has a very positive attitude towards teaching, and wants to do everything she can to be a part of peoples learning experiences and is very open to numerous teaching methods.
3. The barefoot artist was what Yeh participated in while in Rwanda. It was a project to take the communities out of a stage of mourning and to help them move on and recreate happiness. The barefoot artists did this using the art form of mosaics. She explains mosaics as being broken pieces all being put together, which are what the communities needed to do as people.
4. When she says genocide is happening in our hearts I think she is referring to negative feelings of emotions people hold within themselves. Although there may not be on huge tragedy that everyone is dealing with in a certain area, individually every person is dealing with their own problems in their own lives.
5. Yeh is able to communicate with people without knowing their language through her art. She uses the beauty of her artwork to get her messages across to people all over the world.
1) Yeh’s first project lasted 18 years, taking place in North Philadelphia. She began with help from children of the ages from three to thirteen because they had the most energetic creative minds. Together, they took over abandoned lots and turned them into beautiful creations of art. Yeh later switches to having ex drug addicts and alcoholics for help with her art in hopes of giving them a second chance. She says “Lets not look at our problems but look at what we can do together.” I think that is very motivating and sends a positive message to not only the artists but everyone that surrounds her. I believe her tree of life piece in the meditation part was my favorite because of the wonderful and positive vibe that this piece of work gives off
ReplyDelete2) Yeh’s project started off quite slow but improved with time. Though children were the only ones involved at first, I believe their energy and creativeness is what really helped the program take off because many adults looking for a second chance got involved. Yeh says that eventually she realized that the program was really life changing. I think it is awesome that she got such a wide range of people involved and that they got to be a part of the artwork that was done.
3) Barefoot artists takes place in Rwanda, it is to bring happiness back into a community that has been destroyed by genocide. Because of the massive tragedy that has overcome the people, Yeh decided to take on the project to build a memorial for the many families who could not bury their family members.
4) Yeh’s meaning of having genocide in our hearts is that people hold anger and hatred within their hearts and let it completely consume their minds as well, it gives a negative outlook and eventually effects everyone they surround themselves with; giving them genocide inside of their hearts as well, almost as if it is contagious. We must keep a positive attitude and give ourselves goals so that we can avoid the chain effect of this.
5) Yeh communicates with people who don’t speak her language through the use of art. She allowed children and adults of all ages to paint pictures of their dreams and created a unison throughout the community, it gave hope and allowed people to see the world around them in a positive light and also speak without words.
1. Yeh’s project took place in North Philadelphia over 18 years. It started with her working with young children, but over time men who were recovering drug addicts trying to find peace in their lives began to help her. The project was to turn these old destroyed lots into something beautiful. The fact that she put 18 years of her life into this beautiful project is amazing and speaks about the person she is.
ReplyDelete2. Lily Yeh describes the project as slow to progress, but I think anyone could agree it was well worth it. The passion she put into this project was life changing to so many people despite the critique she got from some. She took something worn down and turned it into something beautiful which I think connects to some of the people who helped her with this. They were lost on their life journey and this project helped them to see the beauty in life.
3. She began Barefoot artist in 2004 in Rwanda. After seeing it all she wanted to do something other than “pump the poison of grief in our hearts” she felt they could use art and honor these people, and bring something beautiful to the community.
4. "Genoide is happening in everybody's heart." This quote speaks great lengths of meaning. Everybody faces struggles in life, and experiences every emotion possible at some point. We react to these situations of emotion we experience. People often don’t think about how we all hit low points in life and need help sometimes, even with the smallest of things.
5. Art is a language itself. You don’t have to be able to speak the same spoken language as someone to understand their art. Art speaks how people are feeling, what they are experiencing, what they want. You just have to open your eyes to it!!
1. The project in inner city North Philadelphia took place over an 18 year span. Yeh worked with children ages 3 ½ to 13 regardless of the thoughts of others. She wanted to help children “put our heads together like broken pieces of tiles”. She worked with many different groups to improve their community. Yeh helped transform abandoned lots into something beautiful they used colors to transform these lots into something creative and beautiful. I was amazed by the work of this woman she has touched many lives.
ReplyDelete2. Yeh described the community involvement as a slow process. First the children were involved and slowly adults joined in too. Yeh also described the experience as life changing. I can see how these community projects were life changing because I have experienced this as well. Helping others can have a huge impact on your life. The community grew together through these projects I was glad to see that the children’s involvement sparked something in the adults to join and help out as well.
3. The Barefoot Artist is an inspiring group of people that inspire other people to get involved with the cause. They are able to being the community back to life through art. This group is located in Rwanda where people that have suffered from the Rwanda genocide. The Rwanda genocide was a tragic and horrible event that affected many people in Rwanda. A memorial for these people were made so visitors can go see their loved ones bones. The walls of the memorial were pained purple for signs of mourning. This project did more than creating a memorial it also helped the families get clean water and create hope.
4. I think she is saying that people allow their emotions to get the best of them and let it control their lives. It is not always healthy to act upon your emotions. Sometime our emotions control us instead of us controlling them which can ruin not only our own lives but the lives of people around us. For example have you ever noticed if your parents were in a bad mood somehow you get in a bad mood because they are being mean? The angriness from yours parents transfers to you.
5. Yeh can communicate with people even if she does not know their language. The way she does this is through art, she has them draw their dreams which she can physically see on paper.Yeh then tries to make these dreams come true. Yeh is a great woman who has a huge heart, I find Yeh to be very inspiring!
1. The project that Yeh started was to rebuild broken down lots and make them into something beautiful and life-changing. She started this project with the help of children, which eventually moved to more people, including broken men looking for hope. This was found for them. I know that was Yeh pictured in her mind to create was miraculous because unless experienced you can’t speak of a “light” entering into your life. Yeh had went by the motto of “if you don’t rise to the occasion, a few will die and the rest will not Amount to anything.” What Yeh created as a project wasn’t an ordinary project, but an extraordinary one.
ReplyDelete2. It took Yeh time and patience for her progress to eventually grow. The community wasn’t all for it because they were being blinded by the world but as soon as they heard the message of Yeh and her journey they saw how real she was and the project was and it began to make a dramatic rise in progression. She helped relate to these people and let them know that the side she was on was the side to be on by reminding them to “lets not look at our problems, but what we can do together.” Her attitude toward teaching remained positive.
3. Barefoot artists is a very inspirational project that uses art to transform communities. Yeh works on these projects in Rwanda, Kenya, Ghana, Ecuador, China, and several others. Barefoot Artists is a volunteer organization with few staff. Yeh raises funds for specific projects that pair volunteer expertise with local people to improve environment, advance health, education, and economic development.
4. When Yeh speaks of “genocide in our hearts” I believe that she is really relating to that piece of bitterness and hurt we all have held inside of us. Therefore, we can all somehow connect if we want to and make something creative out of our problems.
5. Yeh uses art to connect with people. Because everyone’s art is different in a unique way and viewing someone else’s artwork can sometimes really let you have a look inside that person.
1.) Yeh’s first large-scale community arts project, the Village of Arts and Humanity was carried out first by children in the Northern Philadelphia area and then by older men and members of the community. She made it a point to mention that some of these men had been previous drug abusers and negative members of the community. The first part of her speech had a reiterating message to me and that message was the possibility of rebirth and picking up the pieces of something damaged and turning it into something new and beautiful. Which is what these men did with their lives thanks to her and her ideas. Art helped transform abandoned lots into a rays of hope for a community. It took her 18 years working on this project, each year spent painting murals, making mosaics, and just transforming things and inspiring people all over.
ReplyDelete2.) Lily Yeh described the community involvement as beautiful but slow moving. When the community saw the result of all of her efforts she was praised but before that she was often discouraged and didn’t receive much positive feedback or faith. In the beginning the children were the only ones helping but as time progressed it became a community effort. I think her attitude about teaching is that everyone deserves a chance to rebuild and express themselves. She described her experience as life-changing for both her and the people involved. She really taught people by experience and by encouraging people to find beauty within themselves. Her teaching style was progressive but effective.
3.) Barefoot Artists is the program that took place in Rwanda in order to motivate and revive the community. The devastating genocide in 1994 was cause for the people of Rwanda to want to build a memorial for the victims. They built a beautiful rememberence place where they could bury the bones of the genocide victims and honor them. The end result was a beautifully colorful memorial full of paintings and mosaics. In the paintings were also things the community dreamed about like cows for milk, goats, and computers. Through her efforts she was able to give life to such dreams and that really is amazing.
4.) I think she meant that inside everyone there is negative feelings. And sometimes our negative feelings like jealousy, anger, and greed are more easy to show then our happy ones. As human beings we have to learn to control our negative feelings and not let them affect our quality of life. We have to believe that there is so much good in the world and that we can help spread that good to other people instead of spreading negativity.
5.) Yeh communicated with people by her inspiring art projects. Art is a universal language, and with her art she helped change the world. I found her story so inspiring because everyone in their lives have failed at a point but she honestly believes in new beginnings and rebuilding yourselves to be even better than you imagined and that is a powerful message in any language but especially beautiful through her universal language of labor and vision.
#1: Lily Yeh was scared to make her first project, but more so “was affirad of being a coward” so she just embraced it. It took her four years to raise the money it took for it, but it was well worth the time and efforts. Her mural did more for the community than bring art into their lives. It brought them together as one to create art by expressing themselves. My favorite quote from her was, “We all have that innate light inside us. It is my job to light other peoples’ pilot light, and we shine together to light up the horizon.” I think what she means is that we all can be good, but together we can be great!
ReplyDelete#2: At first, her community involvement was question and not highly praised. After finished though, her and her work were highly praised by many. Her attitude toward teaching is what we hope most teachers are like. She believes teaching can change the world, one person at a time.
#3: What is Barefoot Artists? Where did it take place? What is the art project, specifically?
Barefoot Artists is a group that was in Rwanda. They started with art in the village to bring life back in the community who had lost so much. After awhile live stock and more were brought to the village in Rwanda and soon live was again thriving.
#4: Our greed and our ego hood is what causes genocide in everyone’s’ heart. Day to day we pump toxins in the air by our attitudes and anger for each other.
#5: Though there may be a barrier of communications through lack of a language, she is able to communicate worldwide, in many countries through art. Her murals speak in more ways than words ever could.