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Focusing on the Future

Our project aimed to engage fourth-grade students at a low-income school in St. John’s County, encouraging them to envision positive futures through goal-setting and self-reflection. By creating art, students explored their identity and aspirations, symbolized by a tree—roots representing their past, the trunk their current self, and branches their future goals. At the project’s conclusion, we assessed their learning through surveys and donated remaining funds to enhance the school's art program. We hope to inspire these children to pursue their dreams and foster a lasting impact.

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Focusing on the Future

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  1. Focusing on the Future A relational art project with fourth grade students Emily Szymanski and Emily Gleeson

  2. Objective Our objective was to reach out to a low-income school in St. John’s county, seeking to get fourth grade students to think positively about their futures. We wanted to help them set goals, and more importantly, get to reflect on how the choices that they make now will affect them in the future.

  3. “Through creating art and reflecting on the art products and processes, people can increase awareness of self and others cope with symptoms, stress and traumatic experiences; enhance cognitive abilities; and enjoy the life-affirming pleasures of making art.” —Art Therapy Association, 2013

  4. Main Goals of Our Project • Emphasize to the children the importance of setting goals. • Orient them towards careers: • We asked them to write about what they aspired to do in the future. • Help them to develop their own personal concepts of “identity”.

  5. We used the image of a tree to represent the concepts of the past, present and future. • Roots: past experiences that ground you as an individual • Trunk: how you define your identity now (as a fourth grade student) • Branches: goals that you have for the future A Symbolic Approach

  6. Assessing Our Progress: • At the close of our project, we distributed surveys to the children, in order to assess how much they had learned.

  7. Outcome • We hope to have not only have engaged these children for a four week period, but also to have inspired them to set positive goals for years to come.

  8. Giving Back • The remaining of our funds were donated to the school’s art program, through the purchase of needed supplies.

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