For my Casptone, I painted the SLA core values on the stairwell. WHY? Well, I recently conducted a survey/interview with students at SLA from every grade, and I planned to get everyone’s opinions and quiz them about SLA. So I asked people if they knew the SLA core values, and I noticed everyone gave the same response: “I don’t know. “I’m not sure,” or them naming a couple, then give up. So I notice this is a big problem because these values are what make our school what it is today, along with our community and our students’ lives. Because of that, I wanted that to change while using art, and so that’s how my project came about.

Throughout this process, I’ve been brainstorming about what I wanted to do, what the sketches of how I wanted it to be painted looked like, then tracing, executing, and bringing it to life. Throughout my process of making this happen, the biggest thing I learned was not to wait until the last minute. For instance, don’t start your capstone two months before it’s due, and I thought my project wasn’t gonna take as long, but it was longer than I anticipated, so everything was kind of cramped in, and I would stay after school for like 4 hours, then come home at 8 o’clock. Overall, what I learned was to manage my time better.