Program week #5, By: Aaron Cotton

LAST WEEK, our team accomplished the following:
1. We met individually with our career coaches to discuss certain topics such as: money matters (a discusion of budgeting), Resume writing, and practice interviewing.
2.We presented our sketches and ideas to an audience to further develop them and also to take and give feed back.
3. We went to the computer lab at the Art Institute of Wisconsin to start our final draft posters.

THIS WEEK, our team will accomplish the following:
1. Meet with career coaches and discuss our third topics.
2. The interns will bring together any ideas, logos, artwork, text, designs, etc that are needed in the final draft.
3. Last, but not least, we meet at AI again to work more on Photoshop and Illustrator to work on our final drafts.



Intern Kenisha presents her design concepts



 Intern Ramon presents his design concepts



 Intern Samm presents her design concepts

 Intern Vincent presents his design concepts

Intern McKenna presents her design concepts (and actually has a smile on her face!)

 Intern Aaron presents his design concepts

 Intern Domonique presents his design concepts

Intern Rose presents her design concepts

ArtWorks Interns would like to thank Safe & Sound and "Crime Strategy Initiative" Youth from the United Community Center for participating!

PERSONAL FEEDBACK: I enjoy this internship. It allows me to be creative and still provides guidelines.

Program Week# 4, by: Ana Rose Rodriguez

LAST WEEK, our team accomplished the following:
1. All of the interns went through their final performance evaluations to discuss our growth, goals, and things we still need to work on.
2.We then reviewed our performance goal worksheets we completed on our first week and completed our feedback exercise worksheets.
3. Then we all continued to work on our sketches for our posters at AI and tried to improve our photoshop skills.

THIS WEEK, our team will accomplish the following:
1. Meet with career coaches and discuss our second topics.
2. The interns will present their sketches to our customer at Safe Messages.
3. Finally we meet at AI again to work more on Photoshop, improving our skills, and learning more things.

PERSONAL FEEDBACK: I love being an intern at Artworks for Milwaukee. Its been a great experience so far and i learn more and more everyday.

                 Intern Rose works with her ManpowerGroup Career Coach Kelly McAvoy

Intern Domonique works with his ManpowerGroup Career Coach Nanji Chandra

Intern Samm works with her ManpowerGroup Career Coach Mali Gupta

Intern Rose sketches out an idea

ArtWorks Interns are so thankful to the Art Institute of Wisconsin for letting them use their state-of-the-art design computer lab. They meet there every Friday to work on their poster designs.

PROGRAM WEEK #3 : VINCENT L.

Last week, our team accomplished the following tasks:

Monday: The interns met with their career coaches at ArtWorks to discuss topic # 1 of their choice.
Skills: Professionalism

Thursday : The crew met up at ArtWorks, for a little brainstorming on our ideas/ sketches / collages for our design concepts. Skills: Creativity

Friday: We met at the Art Institute to get started on our rough draft for the posters.
Skills: Adobe Photoshop & Adobe Illustrator

PERSONAL FEEDBACK
I think the program is great, because I feel it has the potential to inspire youth to turn their lives around.