Art & Identity in New Orleans

For my final project I wanted to make both a playlist and a vision board (even though I mainly focused on the playlist here) for scenes I thought were important to the development of the story and Edna’s awakening. I chose to do this because music is personally really important to me and I think […]

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[posted on behalf of a student] For my final project, I ended up with two essays. The first one, which is linked here, is comprised of the three essays I submitted in workshop. I took those three essays and turned them into a braided essay. I literally cut up the three essays and pieced them together, […]

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I’ve finished the poetry sequence for my final project, you can view it here.

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Hello everyone! I decided to take the advice that was given to me and utilize a story map to display my pictures alongside journal entries for my final project.   The writings are split into seven different short entries which talk about my thoughts as I use to wander through the desert.  My first entry is […]

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Leah Chase Leah Chase, New Orlean’s Queen of Cuisine.  A beloved figure throughout the community for all her contributions.  She played a major, but almost secret, role in the Civil Rights movement when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his Freedom Riders came to New Orleans to meet with the Baton Rouge civil rights members […]

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    Summary of Final Project: In these sets of fictional letters, I have sought to tell Adrien De Pauger’s story through his own lens. This is not possible to do so completely or accurately, but I have strived to try to show what his life was like and what his thoughts might have been […]

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So I decided to scratch the Sweet Briar poem, I haven’t been here long enough and I couldn’t make it depressing. With the other three, I (attempted to) added more place or tried to make them more visual on the place at least. My poems 🙂

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For the final draft of this project, I decided on the villanelle poem based on its form and style. After fiddling around with multiple types of poems and their forms, I found that the villanelle style worked best for me. The rhyme scheme adds a level of difficulty that makes the end process more rewarding. […]

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Here is my finished Final Project. This Project is basically fitting characters from the stories we read over the semester into archetypes. I’m rather proud of all the cards, especially the ones where I had to take creative license with the designs of some of the characters. What we have in the final project is: […]

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This project is about place and religion. But it also about belonging. And community. And spirituality. About how I experience place in the context of the sacraments. About the physical places and sensory experiences of Catholicism. It’s about feeling like you’re the only one trying and like you’re failing at the same time. It comes […]

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Here is the link to the story. If there are any problems, let me know.

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For my final draft, I spent a long time going over and thinking about the poems that I wrote. I played around with line breaks, stanza breaks, and added and replaced words here and there. I kept thinking back to the workshop where I remember being told that some of the poems felt as though […]

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My thought processes in regard to a final project varied from writing a script for Blanche’s ex-lover to writing from the perspective of Mitch after the credits to creating a podcast of my dad’s life lessons. However, after the workshop, I took the feedback to heart and believed that I could do more than just provide audio […]

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I tried uploading a different file type than the workshop post in hopes that this one would look clearer, but for some reason it just doesn’t look as crisp as it does whenever I open it. I ended up going with the idea of making the drawing look like one of those old photographs with […]

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