Describe any interests, hobbies, or extracurricular activities that relate to your interest in this internship. 300 My interests consists of using various media to create art pieces on small to large canvases. My most preferred media is spray paint because despite it being viewed as something used by miscreants, spray paint shows an artist's work in progress through the colors combining naturally. I am a member of the National Art Honor Society in addition to a student in the Jersey City Arts Program. We don’t just accept difference – we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our interns, our work, and our communities. What makes you want to take part in a program that values different perspectives and experiences, …show more content…
No matter how different we are from one another, we can all come together and find some personal meaning from the same piece of art. I want to take part in a program that values different perspectives and experiences, as well as the interesting people who are willing to think, discuss, and act on them because the thing I hold closest to my heart, art, allows different outlooks to be be articulated without speaking and that leads to conversations between an art piece and the spectator. Describe a meaningful experience you have had with a visual image (a work of art, poster, advertisement, etc.). This experience may have taken place in a classroom, book, museum, gallery, or elsewhere. A meaningful experience I have had with a visual image was a creation of my own. In the summer of 2015, I worked for the Jersey City Summer Works Art Program, which selects approximately 20 students create murals around the city. Before starting on a large group mural, we each separately painted a street planter corresponding in the theme of animals. Hearing all the excitement around me due to the colorful planters gave me a sense of pride of being part of such a positive and family-like community. The support I received from my community stays with me today as an uplifting