Final Packet MAPR/Professional Practices
response piece


online portfolio
https://curiosityshopdesigns.com/

grant application
i James Cowan!

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The second part of this email is a copy of your proposal text.

Your application, for reference:

Your name: James Cowan
Your email: james_cowan@snceagles.sierranevada.edu
Your phone number: 9703020673
Project title: Self-Assessment
Project website: http://TBD
Chapter: Any

About me:
I was born on Oak Harbor Naval base while raised in San Diego, CA for the most part, but I finished high school Greeley, CO. I am an illustrator who dabbles in every medium I can get my hands on. I studied Graphic Communications and Fine Arts at Truckee Meadows Community College where I received degrees in both disciplines in 2018. I am now a student at Sierra Nevada College in Incline Village Nevada studying to receive my BFA.  Outside of Art, I enjoy the outdoors but art is my passion.

About the project:
I have created a booklet to alert those that read it to personal bias towards ethnicity, sex, or religion. The process starts with a 5" x 3" pocket size booklet with a benign colored cover. The interior images will be in color while the cover will be in black and white. The rules will be that in 20 words or more to describe the image in their own terms. In putting multiple pictures and asking for more than twenty words, the subject will fall the auto response mode provoking a more honest response. The end questions are designed to be revelatory in their nature but more suggestive than sledgehammer in their design. The privacy of the response is also designed to influence honesty as well. While I have used people to demonstrate bias, the end questions and the pictures can be engineered to be used to reveal any visual bias that someone may wish to expose. The assessment as a holistic experience is merely to provoke thought and personal reflection in any one who may pick up the booklet. The process may be evaluated through a blog response website for the users to post their anonymous results

How you will use the money:
The funds are to be allocated over the supplies, printing, and shipping of the booklets to participating organizations. In some cases the personal delivery and set up the display of booklets. Increasing the accessibility is the goal of the booklet.

Where are you located (city and country)? Please note that if there is a chapter in or near your city, you should apply to it rather than choosing "Any.”:
Reno, NV

How did you hear about the Awesome Foundation?:
Professional Practices course at Sierra Nevada College