One of my final projects lat semester was to create a magazine spread based off of Minneapolis Saint Paul Magazine about Chuck Close.
These are the two versions I came up with!
YEAH! I’m so proud of myself. Worked over 30 hours a week, designed on the side, and kicked ass in school!
4.0!!!
mock poster for Intro to Graphic Software Class. I’m normally very clean and precise in my designs and imagery, but I kinda enjoyed stepping out of my box and doing more of a motif fashion.
For Typography class, my latest homework was a 4 to 6 page spread of a milton glaser article with our own creative twist on it. Here’s mine :D
California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law today SB 48, the controversial bill which will require California’s public school textbooks to include the contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans. This is a big deal that we’ve been discussing for a while now as we’d all like to imagine a world where everyday Americans know more about gay history than what was covered in Milk.
(to read more click on the link!)
“Battles for acceptance by gay and lesbian students have erupted in the places that expect it the least: the scores of Bible colleges and evangelical Christian universities that, in their founding beliefs, see homosexuality as a sin.
Decades after the gay rights movement swept the country’s secular schools, more gays and lesbians at Christian colleges are starting to come out of the closet, demanding a right to proclaim their identities and form campus clubs, and rejecting suggestions to seek help in suppressing homosexual desires.
Many of the newly assertive students grew up as Christians and developed a sense of their sexual identities only after starting college, and after years of inner torment. They spring from a new generation of evangelical youths that, over all, holds far less harsh views of homosexuality than its elders…”
The most moving part of this article for me was about Amanda Lee Genaro, a student from North Central University (the college i also attended my freshman/sophmore year):
“Amanda Lee Genaro said she was ejected in 2009 from North Central University, a Pentecostal Bible college in Minneapolis as she became more assertive about her gay identity. She had struggled with her feelings for years, Ms. Genaro said, when she was inspired by a 2006 visit to the campus of SoulForce, a national group of gay religious-college alumni that tries to spark campus discussion.
“I thought, wow, maybe God loves me even if I like women,” Ms. Genaro recalled. In 2009, after she quit “reparative therapy,” came out on MySpace and admitted to having a romantic, if unconsummated, relationship with a woman, the university suspended her, saying she could reapply in a year if she had rejected homosexuality. She transferred to a non-Christian school.”
