https://padlet.com/brooksavek00/gpoiyf7yn51jwtla Avery Brooks en-us 2022-04-22 16:18:30 UTC 2022-05-14 17:43:44 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/1562328840/e89ff4fd931f52e6aa6b3751d010505e/AS000733_17.gif brooksavek00 https://padlet.com/brooksavek00/gpoiyf7yn51jwtla/wish/2153837541 I feel that my values have been expressed through shifting and true inspirations that were influenced by things that I cited in the original personal statement "How music and pieces about rage truly connect to marginalized communities and why exactly people who experience oppression come to relate to madness and anger, and the emotions that are underneath it all." Specifically citing my work during the playwriting and directing unit, I feel my Hometown Project piece was deeply influenced by emotions that affect my identities. I think that, while I stayed true to things that inspired me, I also found that in certain collaborations, I was looking for the softer influences and inspirations, specifically the movement section.]]> 2022-04-22 16:25:38 UTC https://padlet.com/brooksavek00/gpoiyf7yn51jwtla/wish/2153837541 brooksavek00 https://padlet.com/brooksavek00/gpoiyf7yn51jwtla/wish/2153841822 For this, I think I have also stayed pretty in-tune with my habit of checking in on myself after experiencing and interacting with art that taxes you. Specifically, after the movement section, I found myself checking in with my body and it's capabilities as I went through, and stalling the engagement as my capabilities waned. My original quote, "Art can make people feel things they aren't familiar with, and mentally, that can tax anyone after interacting with it day after day.", is the one that still resonates with me. Through collaboration, I don't think this changed, but it evolved to include others. Evolution as it stands can be a change. This process is something to always evolve, to always change and make better. Everyone that a collaborative process includes will include mang different perspectives on live, and with that, will change the process to make the experience as comfortable as possible.]]> 2022-04-22 16:29:05 UTC https://padlet.com/brooksavek00/gpoiyf7yn51jwtla/wish/2153841822 brooksavek00 https://padlet.com/brooksavek00/gpoiyf7yn51jwtla/wish/2153846301 My values are constant. I don't think collaboration so much changed them, as it did remind me that my values include other people around me, and should shift with the people I work with. Citing the design section, there were moments I felt that my personal values were in the collaboration with others. "The main values I have are making sure the human experience is lived together." I think that this does not need to change, but adapt into something else to help truly affect collaboration. In working with others, I found the most experience of these values. My cohort, and the friends I have made in process and collaboration, have shared the "lived together" experience, and contributed to growth and learning about others, and how to work together to create a piece to be proud of without demeaning or diminishing our own values.]]> 2022-04-22 16:32:40 UTC https://padlet.com/brooksavek00/gpoiyf7yn51jwtla/wish/2153846301 brooksavek00 https://padlet.com/brooksavek00/gpoiyf7yn51jwtla/wish/2183998058 My name is Avery, I am getting my bachelor of arts, emphasis in playwriting and directing, and I plan on being an educator some day. There are many things that have shaped the way I experience art.

My high school artistic path was not easy. I constantly felt like my perspective of life was altered or left out, and I never had the chance to express my talent in a way that was undefined by constraints of my appearance and identity. As a plus sized theatre maker, and as a queer theatre maker, I was often pigeonholed and shoved into perspectives I didn't understand (motherhood, villains, even older vindictive women and grandmothers). I was very put out; why couldn't I play a love interest who was just a love interest? I would love to create spaces for similar minded people, for any perspective that I can help uplift that is being put down by people who just don't get it. 

On a lighter note, I think through my years of college, I have really found artistic influences that drive my work, or things that just inspire me. Music artists like Fiona Apple, Barbara Streisand, Fleetwood Mac, and Mitski have really prompted perspectives of love and art that I have not experienced (in particular, Strawberry Blonde by Mitski, a song from the perspective of a POC about how 
yearning "aches"). Movies and plays like Little Miss Sunshine (movie), The Real Queen of Hearts Ain't Even Pretty by Brad Bailey, and Spirited Away.]]> 2022-05-14 17:34:34 UTC https://padlet.com/brooksavek00/gpoiyf7yn51jwtla/wish/2183998058 brooksavek00 https://padlet.com/brooksavek00/gpoiyf7yn51jwtla/wish/2184000685 A duet between Barbara Streisand and Judy Garland. The appreciation and talent of this video transcends the duet. A look in the comments and a knowledge of Judy's life really make this a touching song.]]> 2022-05-14 17:39:42 UTC https://padlet.com/brooksavek00/gpoiyf7yn51jwtla/wish/2184000685 brooksavek00 https://padlet.com/brooksavek00/gpoiyf7yn51jwtla/wish/2184002105 A full orchestral concert of the music of Spirited Away. ]]> 2022-05-14 17:42:35 UTC https://padlet.com/brooksavek00/gpoiyf7yn51jwtla/wish/2184002105