Senior Project 2016
Nicolette Ficca
The John Carroll School
September: This month I plan to gather contact information of hospitals and parents of cancer patients to meet with while I continue
working on my first painting.
October: This month I have contacted 2 people and gotten pictures from them. I have been working on some pieces, and have finished 3. I will continue to keep working through the rest of the month.
December: This month I have continued to work on my drawings and got in contact with one of my old friends who is a leukemia cancer survior. I had him breifly write his story for me so that I can put it on his page of my book.
January: This month I have finalized my idea and gotten all of the details settled. I have also gotten a survial story from a friend to put into my book. I have started collecting donations at my Mom's work that will go towards making the books and leftovers will be donated to Johns Hopkins along with the books. I sucessfully have made the first few pages of my page on Shutterfly.
November: This month, I continue to work on previous pieces. I also attended a bull roast that raised money for a camp called Camp Sunrise. Camp Sunrise is a week long summer camp for children who have fought, or are fighting cancer. At this fundraiser, there was a speaker who was 18 years old and had a very, long, hard fight with lymphoma. I got her informatiion and will work with some portaits, and will also have her give me some other names of children I can work with.
February:This month I have just continued working on my drawings. I need stories from the two people that I have pictures for and pictures for the one I have the story fot. I have continued to edit my book and collect donation to print the books.
March: This month so far I have finished two more pictures and one more story. I also created a facebook page so that everyone can find out about my project. The link is on the home page of my website. I have gotten in contact with another person and am waiting for his story, I have just begun his pictures. I now have four people total and seven pages in my book.
April: This month, I have finished my book and ordered 11 of them. I have 10 survivors total and two pieces for each one. I now have over $200 in donations and am just waiting for some more so that I can order the rest. I worked with a new medium called "watercolor pencils" and have done several of my pieces with them.I have worked the most hours so far in April because every night before I went to sleep, I worked on another piece.I have been working on my poster and putting together the powerpoint that I will be using during my evaluation.
May: This month, my books came in, I mounted my poster, put together my display for my presentation, finished my powerpoint presentation, and am fully ready to present. May has been a very easy month since I did everything pretty early. It was compeltetly worth it because I am extemely happy with how everything turned out and cannot wait to share my project with my evaluators.