blog #3 american icons

Part One

Two things I am including in my artist statement are segreagation and Rosa Parks. Segregation represents keeping two or more different things apart from eachother and not letting them into eachothers atmosphere or allowing them to intermingle. Rosa Parks can represent a number of things but one thing she represents is courage. Courage and Segregation may not relate directly but Black people needed to have courage in their hearts in order to make it through the Civil Rights Movement. Some didn't have courage and they did just fine, but those who did made a positive change.


Part Two

I found information on rosa parks as well as her picture from http://www.mindfully.org/reform/2005/Rosa-Parks-Dickson1dec05.htm


What I liked about this website is that it gave me insight to Rosa Parks' childhood. I never really knew anything about what or how she was before that day on the bus. I used the part about how she went to the montgomery industrial school for girls and how the school motivated the students to value themselves and go for the gold no matter what stands in your way.