Collaboration For a Better Future

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." - Barack Obama current U.S president

Five Spaces .

Four Concepts .

Three Green Screens.

Two Floors.

One Idea

Zeum is once again on the move . Change is a must . Now a days we want it bigger want it badder want it awesome. So Zeum as a standing role model will once again try to meet the requirements of a changing pace. Plus its always nice to deserve a wow.

This time its a little different. Zeum is coming to us, the ZeumMasters for help and critique on each of the spaces . Wow right ?

So heres the deal : Themed Exhibits

An idea to bring together the spaces and to spice it up .
Your favorite exhibit is gonna get a makeover every month or so , You come into the room and have the option to participate in the theme of the month.

The purpose of all this is to offer something new and different to keep all you visitors happy and entertained.

The way it goes is that each month we will brain storm different ideas for the month and make it a reality with our budget. The Zeum Masters in collaboration with the Educators with choose what to buy how it will look where to put it and how to present it. Who knows maybe some of these will be permanent .

ZeumMasters really have special input at Zeum. Close enough to having control over it but far enough away to think like a consumer. Age wise to we know what is in and what is not. As teens its amazing thought that we have more control than we previously thought. To be given a task to be trusted , well its quite a feat.

At Zeum were all about what you take when you leave this place. My goal for Zeum is each time a visitor revisits I want them to notice something new. A quote on the wall somewhere a new costume. I want visitors to make visits to make memories.

AND YEA ....


♥ Brianna

ZeumMasters on Film

Check out this video, made by Nae, Brianna, Denzel, Andrew, Leigh Ann, Wing Yan, Victor and Sammi and with the assistance of awesome Educator Eli.

We Still Dream for San Francisco

This morning, in the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr., ZeumMasters, Team Leaders, Ari, Irina and David shared dreams for San Francisco...read on...

I have a DREAM that everyone, especially children, can receive the same quality of education, despite age, race, color, religion or beliefs. Starting with teachers passionate about what they do. With that DREAM, parents and children forced to believe that they are incapable of moving up in this jaded society and a social class system that they think still exists, will be more aware of events and issues that aren't happening in SF but also around the world. Education is where it all be

gins.

The city and California need more funding for you

th activities to keep them off the streets.

I want San Francisco to be a place that is affordable, safe and welcoming for everyone.

MY DREAM = clean planet, peaceful earth, friendly people.

I HAD a dream that there would be less violence in San Francisco.

I have a dream that racism never existed. I have a dream that you wouldn't get killed by the color of your skin or your race. I have a dream where if you say you're not someone, you wouldn't get shot for mistaken identity. I have a dream to live in a peaceful world where there is no violence, guns, knives, killings and where we all get along. I have a dream where the economy would never be bad so everyone has a chance for employment and education...R.I.P. MLK, Josh and G-l...If we lived in a world without racism, y'all would be with us and not dead because of your race.

I have a dream that just as many people of color will live in pacific heights as white people and that people will not have reason to think of certain other neighborhoods as dangerous. I have a dream that San Francisco will pave the way for equality in as many ways as we can continue to dream of.

I have a dream that the economic crisis will end so that there will be no poor or homeless people, that everyone will have a job and be productive in the community.

What's your dream?

ZeumMasters Silk Screen!

Heyyyyyyyy my name is Dayana and today we went on a really cool field trip. You ask where? Well i shall tell you. We did silk screening in the mission. It was a lot of fun.

We had been working on them for a while. We first started out with nothing. You could use any image you wanted. You could draw an image or you could pull one of the net. only if it was not copyrighted. So i decided to use some pictures i took at a concert i went to. The concert i went to was called SassyBack Tour with Cobra Starship, Forever The Sickest Kids, Hit The Lights, and Sing It Loud. The pictures i used were of Kyle&Austin from Forever The Sickest Kids. At first i was debating who's picture to use, either Kyle or Austin but then David saved the day and help me put both of the pictures together. After working on our pictures we finally got them printed onto our screens.



Today was the day we went to go print our images on paper. It was really fun - first we had to put ink on the screen. Then somebody would hold it down for you as you spread the ink with the squeegee. Once you spread it with your squeegee you can either add a little more ink and do it again or you can wash it and play with some "fake under painting". At first I just played around with just regular white paper. It was pretty cool how the picture came out. But after I played around with the white paper. I printed on red and yellow paper.The pictures came out good and all I can say is I had a lot of fun and learned so many new things :)

Happy Holidays to All!

Happy Holiday Season
from the ZeumMasters to all!

The creation in the photo is from this morning's winter olympics event in which teams paired up to create blindfolded interpretations of Kwanzaa, Chanukah, Christmas, Chinese New Year and The Winter Solstice. :)

ZeumMentors

During my first day working at Zeum I expected to merely travel to work, work, eat lunch, work, and then return home. I did not expect to be associated with a mentor group within the Zeum Masters' program. Although it appears long and tedious it is actually fun and is very productive. I feel as though I am learning many new things such as different ways to make biographies, clay animations, and today we learned how to make an interesting type of artwork. (image on the side)

Through our mentor groups we have discussed how we would like to tell "our" story, may it be some clay figures fighting atop of a desk, the time a relative did something intesresting, a famous event in time, or just what you did the other day. These groups help us elaborate our ideas or real life experiences so that we may effectively display them. Eli and Ari, my mentor group's leaders, are very helpful with finding out exactly what story we wish to tell and through which medium we want to tell it in. Through tasks which help us see what parts of our life or imagination we want to utilize in order to express the ideas. We are to tell these stories through multiple mediums. Such as an biography type video, clay animation, poem, and etc.

Zeum is neither an ordinary museum nor an Arts & Crafts workshop, rather it is both, a place where one's imagination may be stimulated, expressed, and even taken home. As a Zeum-Master I have discovered a multiple of ways in which stories may be told, how they are told, what they really represent, and how expressing them may show people how you really are, aside from your appearance. They get a chance to discover how you feel and how these feelings are seem in your songs, music, videos, animations, pictures, and/or etc. Although it may take a chunk of my time to complete these projects, mentor group projects at Zeum allow me to express how I feel and it will help my friends and me to understand myself better.

Tempera Resist in the Morning

What have we been creating? We've been silk screening and film making. Here's a sneak peak at some of what ZeumMasters have been up to...work by Andrew and Leigh Ann.

What Do You Get When You Cross Art and Technology?

Mentor Groups Round 2- Silk Screening

Is there a better project out there that combines art and technology than silk screening? Thanks to our beloved educators D.Danger and Fran, zeummasters now have the chance to experiment with silk screening.

We spent the morning discussing silk screening 101. The possibilities are limitless. We could silk screen any image on shirts or paper. David showed us a virtual silk screening demo on an Andy Warhol website and gave us some pointers on what kind of images to use. In a couple of weeks, we will be going on a mini field trip to Babylon Burning (a close three blocks away from Zeum!), a store that centers on top quality silk screening, so we can see how the process works.

The next week or two will be focused on finding and adding personal touches to images we want to silk screen. We have ideas flying everywhere from spoons to faces to the Great Wall of China. The best part? You never know how the images will turn out and it could come with the perfect surprise!

Whatever we decide to make, they will probably be put in display at Zeum so that visitors can be exposed to the world of silk screening. Who knows, our project could inspire future Andy Warhols. All anyone really needs is some time and imagination (and silk screens and ink and paper and blah blah blah). What will you create?

-T

Angry Black White Boy

On Saturday November 8th, 2008, we went on a fieldtrip to see a play called "Angry Black White Boy" at intersection for the arts. It is based off of the book written by Adam Mansbach. The play was about a 14 year old white boy who was angry and tired of learning about white history and how they oppressed black people since beginning of time. That was one of the reason why he wish he was black, another is because he says rap is another form of poetry. The main character(angry black white boy) committed white on white crimes. He was a white taxi driver who tried to rob white passengers, while doing that he threatened them.

This play was interesting. The parts I liked the most were the beats and the music. At first I thought it would be super boring because I don't like plays and can't sit in the same spot for too long because I lose attention focus and want to do other things like text. The play made me a little sensitive thinking about tragedies that happened at my school the past few months and and also other personal things.

This play is very relevant today. There is also more racism and hateful crimes. An example of this is when the N word is used. I feel the feelings felt by the angry black white boy are still felt among youth. The main character said hip-hop isn't for white people but it is. Anyone can listen but I feel the actual rapping should be done by blacks since they are the ones who started it. I feel the same as the main character when he said he hates learning about white history and wishes he wasn't white. For me learning about how whites oppressed blacks, that made me soo mad and not want to be white. I don't know anything about 90s music.

Stanford!!

On October 18,2008 Irina, Wing Yan, Sammi, Nicole, and Leigh Ann went to Stanford for a field trip. On the way there we talked about radio stations, college and a whole bunch of other stuff. When we finally got to the college campus we kind of got lost. Thanks to Irina, we eventually found a parking spot, and began our journey on the campus of Stanford.

Before we went on our tour, we decided to interview five people, but we only interviewed four.  The first interviewee was named Lawrence and he is an economics grad student. What he told us was, "The best thing about Stanford is the weather, academics, and the campus." Like Lawrence, Nell, an undergrad, also liked the weather at Stanford. She also told us, "[The] people here are really eager to learn." She commented that the most important part of the admission application was the essay, on which she wrote about the things she really cared for. The last two people we interviewed was Dariust and Collin. They told us that the worst thing about Stanford was the "stanford bubble", that people think they're living in paradise and are not aware of what is happening in the outside world. But the best thing is the people. They also thought that the essay was the most important part of the applications and that Stanford has a really god financial aid program.

After all of that, we finally went on our tour! The tour guide was Janice, she was so friendly and funny! She talked about the history of the school,  the Stanford quarter system, the different buildings, and the academic programs offered there. Did YOU know that Stanford use to be a farm?! I didn't think so, and now you do! 

Overall we had a great time. We got to eat at a place there and, truthfully, it didn't taste really well, but we were all hungry and we ate whatever we had. Next time, we hope to see many other colleges and we hope we can go with Irina, who takes pictures of people blinking!