Hi All-

Sounds like a great project. Sorry to have missed class! I have a cause that is VERY close to my heart. It is called the Biletnikoff Foundation.

http://www.biletnikoff.net/

Fred and Angela Biletnikoff were devastated when their daughter, Tracey, was brutally murdered by someone she dated. To ensure that Tracey's spirit and dreams live on and are not forgotten, they established the Tracey Biletnikoff Foundation (now the Biletnikoff Foundation), a non-profit organization dedicated to the support of young women recovering from substance abuse, and education for the prevention of domestic violence.

They have a home in Alameda where up to 6 girls at a time a taken from the system and selected to live at Tracey's Place of Hope. They are supervised 24-7 and given counselors, therapy, education, healthcare, etc.

So if I understand correctly, we all bring in our research next week and then vote on one to persue?

What this is about

Josh and Amanda,

The overall scope of the project is on the class website and it is also helpful to check out the link at adobe.  

As I understand it (Meg and Jaclyn, correct me if you got something different) right now, we are working in groups to research possible causes to work on. As a group, we are to research several possible causes that could be helped by educating and mobilizing the community. Fredda and Bridget suggested that each person pick a different cause and come back with research on that. Then, after we have done the research, we all decide on one cause and on basic images to use in our designs. The cause should be local to the tri-valley and bring about positive change (no calls to overthrow the government). Some examples from my notes were helping blood banks, veterans, CALWORKS for single parents, education and mentoring Junior High students.

The design work is done individually, with feedback from our group, so that we end up with 5 designs for our particular cause. After our final presentations, we will vote on one design from each group which will be printed full-sized and displayed in public places.

Hope this helps

Linda

Brainstorming

School funding for arts programs is a very near and dear to me. I know that the Livermore school district plans to make big cuts to its music program in light of reduced budgets for next year and I'm sure other school districts are facing tough budgets as well. There is a small but dedicated group in Livermore that has fought since 1991 to raise money to keep arts and sports (and reduced class sizes) alive in Livermore.

Other ideas: I have heard that local soup kitchens are in trouble with more need and fewer donations.

The veterans hospital for the tri-valley is slated to close. There might be some community action that could help there.

Ideas.....

Ok so here are some of the things floating around in my head...

-Racial Equality (although not sure if this would apply TOO much to bay area)
-Encouraging funding for school art programs (thought this would be good since we're all involved in this, all of us being in an art program ourselves, but Im talking about grade/middle/high schools.)

thats all I got so far.
thoughts?

Oh, man! Bad day to be absent!

Ok! I'm in. Have we picked a concept yet? I'm excited to work with you guys!

Hi,

We are all a team for our VCOM 57 final project.

I can't write too much more about it because my evening and weekend are crazy, but if someone else who was there would tell Amanda and Josh what this is about that would be great. (my job was to set up the blog)

Or, check the website.

Meg