Bring it to life through art

Purposes of this assignment:

• Recognize the impact of mental health disorders on members of our community.
• Demonstrate empathy and respect for people living with mental health disorders.
• Express your learning in your own way.

Context: There are multiple ways of finding or expressing the truth. You can discover or tell the truth with your feelings, your spirit, and your body. This is an opportunity to do so in a creative, non-linear fashion.

Task:

• Choose a particular mental health disorder or an experience of living with it to portray.
• Decide what information about this you want to convey.
• Use your own creativity to dramatize the story of living with that mental health disorder.
• Creatively bear witness to the truth. Dance, write, paint, draw, or recount in some other way. The work must be original; it must be your creation, not a copy of someone elses work.
• State clearly whether you are giving permission for the instructor to share your work with other students, and whether youd want your name attached to it.

Grading criteria: Grading art is difficult. Ill do my best to be fair. The criteria I’ll use are listed in

. Your suggestions for grading criteria are also welcome.

Suggestions:

Give yourself enough time to let your art develop.

Use the title of your submission to indicate the mental health disorder or experience you are portraying.

Articulate to yourself what you are trying to convey.

You may express your own truth or others. This can tell your tale or others.

Two or more students could share the assignment (and points) if they want.

Help available: You are welcome to discuss your ideas with others but the creation should be yours.

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generously shared by prior students. Yours, however, will be completely different.

AI use is prohibited for this assignment: For this assignment students may NOT use generative artificial intelligence (AI) in any form. To best support your own learning, you must complete this assignment yourself without any use of AI. Please refrain from using AI tools to generate any content (text, video, audio, images, etc.) for this assignment. Passing off any AI generated content as your own will be treated as plagiarism. If you have any questions about what constitutes a violation of this requirement, please contact the instructor.