Artists as Historian

Our challenge for this project was to pick a piece from the Birmimgham museum of art we visited and create a story behind it, or based on it.

I chose an artists called Katy Jalilli and a self portrait picture of herself looking very powerful as part of the LGBTQ+ movement.

I decided I wanted my book to be based on the lgbt movement and so I started by interviewing students about their coming out stories and their journeys through life feeling like that. I was able to get amazing stories and experiences which I believe makes this project both personal to them and to me as I included my own story.

I made my own peaceful protest posters and included some history about Birmimgham and Cyprus. I was overall happy with my final piece even though due to printer problems I wasn’t able to print it how I wanted to.

We had one-on-one meeting with our tutors where they helped us see our progress and give us some suggestions on artists and websites to visit to make our projects more in-depth. This allowed me to figure out how I was setting up my pages wrong and to look into how other LGBT groups set out their website and how they have presented certain aspects of their website. I was then able to see what clashed and how I could make it .