While employed as a graduate teaching assistant at Syracuse University, I coordinated one hundred-eight first-year architecture students for a foundational hand-drafting course designed to build a basis for line weight, line control, and how to draw from observation. The first four weeks of the Fall 2020 semester were spent engaging with the students in a large-scale, collaborative charcoal mosaic drawing project. Each student was responsible for redrawing and translating tonal values, shapes, and proportions for randomly assigned images onto 18-inch by 24-inch Strathmore paper using only charcoal as a medium. My role in this project was to assist students in completing drawings, frame coordination, and conducting lectures demonstrating drafting techniques. The frames formed two 18 feet by 18 feet composite images displayed on the Einhorn Family Walk. On the left was Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and on the right was John Lewis—two recently departed icons who spent their lives fighting for equality and social justice.
Status: Built
Location: Syracuse University
My Role: Graduate Teaching Assistant + Coordinator
Additional Credits: Professor Valerie Herrera, Bomyeong Noh, Songyun Shi, Morgan Noone, Meaghan Kelly