Welcome to Service Learning
at UMM!
Service-Learning Classes for Spring 2009
Painting by Jen Hagen
En Plein Air Paintings
Please join us for an opening reception
At the Life Center In the Stevens County Medical Center
Thursday December 11, 2008
4:30 – 6:00pm
4oo East 1st Street, Morris, MN
This fall, UMM art students are learning the positive impact art can have on a community and environment, while honing their skills as artists and painters. They produced several landscape paintings for the Life Center at the Stevens County Medical Center, showcasing the beauty of Minnesota’s landscape. To view a slide show of the paintings, please click here
There will be an opening reception to unveil these new paintings to the public at the Life Center from 4:30-6:00 PM on Thursday December 11. Everyone is invited to this exciting event. Refreshments will be provided. The paintings will sure infuse new life and color into the space.
The purpose of this project was to teach students in Michael Eble’s Beginning and Advance Painting I classes to create public art in collaboration with a community partner, while brightening the inside of the Life Center and encouraging visitors to ponder the beauty of the Minnesota landscape. The students also gained an appreciation of the positive effect they can have on a community through their art, and a greater understanding of the Life center and SCMC in Morris.
Seventeen students went to the Morris Wetland Management District in this past Fall and painted a series landscape paintings “en plein air”. En plein air describes the traditional approach to painting outside in the environment of the painting. Through this process students gained a greater appreciation for the Minnesota wetlands and landscape along with gaining a better understanding of the environmental issues that affect these areas.. They also reflected on the impact their paintings will have on the Life Center space. Finally, the finished paintings were hung in the Life center space, with the official opening reception scheduled for Thursday Dec 11th. Artists included in the exhibit:
| Bridget Barnes |
Erica Ostoj |
| Evan Gragg |
Zach Ranallo |
| Jennifer Hagen |
Gretchen Retka |
| Angela Laidlaw |
Cassandra Snyder |
| Michelle Leedahl |
Jessica Thielen |
| Eli Mayfield |
Christine Toemke |
| Sarah McDermott |
James Watkins |
| Mitch McGuire |
Samantha Vankrevelen |
| Yang Mee Moua |
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"Service Learning was a definite confidence booster as I saw I could work with the children and be successful."
Theater Arts 2111:Creative Dramatics with Children, Spring 2006
"By meeting with Carol, the farmer I interviewed, many of the assumptions and stereotypes that I held concerning farmers and the farming community were proven wrong. I am better educated and have learned not to rely on my assumptions."
Sociology 1101:Intro to Sociology, Spring 2006
"The whole goal is to get us involved in the community and relate what we learned in class to the real world."
Sociology 1101:Intro to Sociology, Spring 2006
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