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To mark the end of this school year, write about the end of the world and then the beginning of one. How would the world end?: zombie apocalypse, nuclear fallout, World War III? What does it mean by “the world ending?” Would it be the extinction of the human race or just the total destruction of planet earth? Or maybe, on a micro scale, it would just be the end of your life. Take “the world ending” to wherever you want it to go and run along with it. How would the world begin again? A single flower growing in a wasteland? You, opening your eyes, finding that you are a baby again? Art: Draw how you think the world would end and how it would begin, side by side. Be deliberate in the color scheme of the piece.
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Describe New York City in such a way that someone who has only lived in rural or suburban places can visualize what it would be like. You could do this by writing a brief summary of a typical day, or a moment that was especially significant to you. You could describe the skyscrapers, local shops, or all the different cultures. Have fun with it! Art: As the weather gets warmer and we near summer, we have a fresh take on what the beginning of a new season feels like. Try depicting this feeling, the beginning of a new season, in your art. This could go in many different ways, from an illustration of a spring picnic to a character design for the different seasons. It could also be an depiction of summer saying goodbye to spring. Feel free to experiment. :) Writing:
The smell of chlorine or salt water marks the steady approach of summer. Whether at a pool, lake, or beach, water activities are sure to make memories. With summer break coming up in a little over a month, write a poem or prose piece about an experience in the water. This could be fictional or a retelling of a story in your own life. Its okay- or actually encouraged- to do a little daydreaming before writing, about what *soggy* possibilities this summer has to offer. Art: Connected to the writing prompt, this week is all about oceans. Depictions of oceans are seen across many genres of art, and have become the subjects of countless artistic masterpieces. Close your eyes for a moment and picture what the ocean looks like to you. Whether it is the boardwalk of Rockaway beach, lined with taco and surf shops, or an oasis in a tropical rainforest, brimming with turquoise water, you must have some image come to mind. Now, without second-guessing yourself, recreate that image, in as realistic or abstract a way as you would like. Writing:
To honor Mother’s Day, this week’s prompts will be about your mother. If you were to give your mom any gift in the world, what would you give her? Describe the gift and how it may have significance to your mom. Explain why you choose this gift and not something else. Art: Read the writing prompt above and draw the gift. Try to incorporate the feelings/message you want to get across to your mom with your drawing. Do you want the gift to remind her of something? Are you trying to express gratitude? Writing:
Write a dynamic story about opposites. Interpret the word “opposite” as loosely as you’d like. Is Darkness trying to navigate a dimension where there’s only light? Perhaps a mayfly finds a deep bond of friendship with a giant tortoise whose lifespan easily exceeds a century, or your main character is a girl who can only hear music in silence. This should be written in whatever form you’d like, whether it be prose, poetry, etc. Art: Draw anything that could meaningfully explore the theme of “opposites.” Writing:
Write a short story or poem that ends with one of these sentences
Art: Pick a sentence from above and draw the scene that comes to mind Writing:
Why do we keep mementos of trips or vacations? Describe a memento you have at home. Where is it from? What does it mean to you? Does it remind you of something specific such as a smell, sight, or feeling? Feel free to touch upon the significance of mementos to you, your family, or people in general. Art: Create a piece of art that reflects the feelings you get right before you go to bed or right after you wake up. Consider what each of your senses is trying to convey to you. What do you see, smell, hear, taste, or feel? Try to capture the essence of these sensations in your artwork. Writing:
Write a short story/poem with the theme of food. Maybe it’s an ode to your favorite food. Maybe it’s a deprecation of your least favorite food. Maybe it’s a memory that has food in it — celebrating Chinese New Year with your family, the table crowded with plates of heaping food. Maybe it’s a multigenerational personal writing about recipes that were passed down from mother to daughter. Maybe food doesn’t mean that much to you at all. Maybe you just wished that you can inject the nutrients into your body and be done with it — write a short story based on that. FOOD! Art: Draw your favorite memory and make the emotions bleed. Is it the moment you found out you got into Stuyvesant — draw your mouth open in happiness, tears running through your face. Maybe it was the time your brother taught you how to ride a bike, your legs pumping, your eyes wide with fear. Make sure the viewer can feel that happiness that you felt. Writing:
Today is the last day of your life. In this predicament, “you” can be anyone/anything you want to be. You can be a queen, a tiger, or just yourself at any point in a lifetime. What would be your thoughts, actions, and decisions? Where would you be, and who would you be with? You should take this in any way that you’d like: poems, short stories, etc. It can be written from any perspective (1st person, 3rd person, etc.). Just make sure to include descriptive emotion and detail! Art: Draw something in the moment right before an end or beginning. This can be a flower bud that’s about to bloom, or perhaps the last conversation between parting lovers. Express the emotions that you would imagine to be most intense in your scene, as such turning points are always key moments filled with some kind of great emotion. Writing:
Some people say that dreams reflect your inner thoughts and feelings. Take one of your strongest and most prominent thoughts and feelings and create a dream from them. Consider what the setting, people, and things in your imaginatory dream will be like. Are you fighting something or running away from a fear? Are you calmly walking in a garden full of flowers and butterflies? Art: Take something you like and deconstruct it. Now build a world out of the deconstructed pieces. For example, deconstructed sushi can create a boat made of tuna riding on waves of rice under a sky of seaweed where a wasabi sun hangs. Writing:
Build the city of your dreams, build the utopia that could never really exist in real life. Does it have flying cars? Does everyone own a mansion? How is the government elected? What makes this a utopia? Why is everyone happy? How can everyone be happy? Drugs? High standard of living? Then, imagine a protagonist and an antagonist. Is the antagonist the government? Or a specific dictator in the government? Is the protagonist a person who suddenly has flashbacks from before, when everyone was free and there was democracy? Write the story arc of this story that comes out of you. Art: See the writing prompt and draw that utopian city. Then, draw a cartoon of the story arc that comes to you. Writing:
Imagine a very specific scene in the future. It could be 100 years from now, when the aliens have come down and subjugated the human race. It could be 10 years from now, when you’ve happily married and have kids and have published a best selling NYT book. Describe that specific scene with as much emotional and sensory details as possible. What are you seeing? The color of your significant other’s hair? What are you feeling? Love, desperation, sadness, revolutionary? Who have you become? Wiser, kinder? This could be a poem, a short story or a newspaper piece! Be creative, experiment with your medium. Art: Read the writing prompt and draw the picture that you have in mind. Make it a reflection of your projection. Is the scene vibrant? Then use neon colors. Is it grey and gory and scary? Then use pastel colors. Writing:
Write a short story or poem about one word. Your choice of words should not be limited to English. As long as the piece is dedicated to that word in some way, it can be approached from any angle. Tell a story with the word as the enigmatic main character. Think of a place or dimension that the word creates for you. What would you say is its most important role in the language, and what intriguing relationship does it have with other words? These are just some of the questions that you can respond to. Art: Think of any one word that is an adjective or verb in any language. Make an art piece out of it. Be sure to include the specific personality or importance that the word has for you in the atmosphere of the visual work. Writing:
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Art: Think of someone you love and think of someone you hate. Draw a portrait of a person that has characteristics of both the person you love and of the person you hate. Ex: My mom with Ted Bundy’s hair Writing:
Write a short story beginning with one of the following lines:
Art: Make a drawing of something unfinished. This can be a thing, a concept, a person, a situation, a thought, or anything else. Writing:
The world that you live in can only be in one color from now on. Describe this world and what your response would be as a person in it. What color would you choose, and why? How would it manifest in the different corners of this dimension, and how would the color change the nature or function of some of the mundane things that you will come by? This can be in any form of writing, whether it be a poem, short story, etc. Have fun with it, and go crazy ;) Art: Choose a moment, object, or place. After including a brief description of your choice, draw a personification of it. Incorporate your impression of that idea, whether it be the personality/aura or context that it has for you. Try not to include any words in the actual art piece. Writing:
Choose one of the prompts below to write a short story! The story can be novella-length or it might be fun to limit yourself to 5 sentences, so that you are forced to make every word count:
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Pick any number, and give it a unique identity. What kind of personality does that number have for you? Is it enigmatic, shy, intelligent, nonchalant, or downright breathtaking? Does it have a pointy nose, or perhaps a habit of furrowing their brows when choosing the type of donut they’re going to eat for breakfast? Expand on this character as much as you’d like, and you can discuss them to be living in our world of humans, or amongst a completely new dimension where numbers rule society. Art: Construct any mundane object or view using abstract materials. For example, in your piece, a bench at the corner of your favorite park can be made out of a collection of deliberately posed hands, or stacked french fries. Maybe it can be a combination of many things, like those hands holding the french fries. Make it as crazy as you’d like!! Writing:
Write a winter-themed fable! Include any of the following characters: gingerbread men, snowmen, polar bears, etc. The only requirement is that there must be talking objects (ex: talking snowmen) and some sort of lesson. Art: Give your best interpretation of a storm. It can be a thunderstorm, a snowstorm, etc. You can have various colors or focus on the eye of the storm, whatever floats your boat. Have fun with it! Week of November 23-27 by Jessica Jiang A switcheroo! Draw something that is written. Write something that is drawn Writing: Pick any of the three photos and write a poem/short story/novella?/anything! that comes to your mind. It doesn't have to be directly related to the photos, maybe it is based on a scene or a memory that the photo inspires. Art:
Pick a random writing piece below and draw the memory/scene that comes to mind! 1. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous BY OCEAN VUONG (Poem) 2. Girls, At Play BY CELESTE NG (short story) 3. Cartoon Physics BY NICK FLYNN 4. The Tell-Tale Heart BY EDGAR ALLAN POE Writing:
Write a short narrative from the perspective of a being living inside a famous painting. Are you a resident in the village of Van Gogh’s Starry Night, bewildered that all the large and bright stars are indicative of an alien takeover? Perhaps you are in the midst of an existential epiphany in the barren desert of Dali’s The Persistence of Memory, trying to describe the touch of melting clocks on your fingertips. Don’t limit yourself to what the artist provided in the frame of the painting: expand outside this snapshot of a different dimension. How would one living inside the world of a painting peer through a frame and look at us as inhabitants of this reality on Earth? Art: Using visual mediums, depict a world in which every person has become tiny, while everything else retains their original sizes. How would a person 5 cm tall interact with a glass of water? A whole cheesecake on the kitchen counter? What would happen to the structure of human society? Writing:
Sonder: The profound feeling of realizing that everyone, including strangers passed in the street, has a life as complex as one's own, which they are constantly living despite one's personal lack of awareness of it. Write a poem/short story to convey this feeling WITHOUT using the word or it's definition explicitly ;) Art: Use this color scheme generator to create a color palette. Then create a portrait (paint, photography, collage, anything!) using this palette; what mood do the colors evoke? Writing Prompt:
Pick up the object closest to you. Describe it in the utmost detail possible. Use your five senses. Find symbolic meaning in those details, and relate the way you describe it with ways you might describe yourself. (Ex: The pillow was a special kind of soft, providing me with solace after innumerable stressful days.) Art Prompt: Pick up the object closest to you. Keep it out of sight, but have it such that you can still feel it. Draw/sketch it using your sense of touch. It does not have to be accurate, and it can be abstract. Draw based off of your instincts! Have fun with it! Writing Prompt:
Write a haiku, personal memoir, or short story about the end of autumn or winter’s looming, as well as the seasonal festivities, memories, and ideas that they bring. Some Ideas to Get You Started: * What does Halloween mean to you? * Celebrating a season’s coming or passing during the COVID age. * Childhood memories playing in the leaves or snow. * Emulations of scary or seasonal stories. Art Prompt: Draw your day in the life as a “quaranteen.” Take that as literally or abstractly as you can/want. |
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