Yanitza Ordonez
Carrie Mae Weems’ work often explores cultural identity. Write the story of your personal culture- where are you from and what are the cultures that make you you?
Carrie Mae Weems tells photographic stories that often use herself as a central character. Create a story you want to tell about yourself by sketching out this storyboard.
Lynn Nottage weaves together strong emotional stories for he plays. Using this plot diagram, sketch out a story about a fictional or real group of people that you might turn into a play. Draw pictures in each box to show the main events of the story.
Lynn Nottage’s plays often take an honest look at cultures we don’t often see onstage. Write a one-page play about a group of people (perhaps you know them) whose stories you want to see onstage.
Nick Cave creates elaborate masks and costumes for live performances that tell important personal and collective stories. Create an elaborate mask design that has a strong message that you believe in.
Nick Cave’s work can be expressive, explosive, and joyful. Write a poem where words expressing emotions are written larger, smaller, in different colors or fonts, backwards, misspelled, etc.
Juliana Huxtable uses all the arts to express herself and is known for her Do-It-Yourself magnet and posters. On this page, create a magnet and/ or poster design to express an idea that is really important to you that you want communicated to a broad audience.
Juliana Huxtable’s work explores a wide variety of subjects including the internet. Take a few big topics like art, life, the universe, the meaning of everything, and describe them using only 3 words. Try using only emojis.