Challenge
Skills
- Project Management
- Creative Direction
- Cat/Designer Herding
- High Fives
- Pizza Party Planning
My Role
Work closely with a team of first grade teachers to coordinate and bring to life a creative artwork exchange involving around 130 students and over 100 professional creatives.
My responsibilities included communications, artwork digitizing, file management, print production, creative presentation, and documenting the entire experience to name a few.
Solution
For the past few years I’ve organized an incredibly rewarding project for my wife’s students. It’s called The Monster Project.
Each year, the responses we get from the children are amazing. They range from uncontrollable happiness to shrieking excitement. These reactions are sparked by presenting artistic interpretations like this:
Peprment
Peprment is a “pestey”-eating monster who lives in “my backyard” and likes to “paly socer.”
I started this after my wife read about the amazing group of creatives behind the Monster Project and asked if I could do one for her students. The project was created to show students the power of their own creativity.
The way it works is first, students create a monster using their imagination. We then digitize and give the monster to a professional artist who reimagines it in their own style. The work is then presented back to the students and that is where the real magic happens.
Around 100 artists across my network volunteer their time each year to be a part of this project. Huge shout out to each and every one of them because without them, an amazing project like this would not be possible.
The following are some of the monsters I’ve contributed to our project over the years:
Bob Larry Johnson
The “toilet paper”-eating monster who lives “in the bathroom.”
Lily
The “meat”-eating monster who “livies in the forest” and “likes tu walk dog.” The special thing about Lily is “Lily is cute.”
Lydia
Lydia eats “donutes” and lives “in the wotte.”
Frite Meny
Likes to eat “pepoll” and lives (on) “Jooptre.”
Lily
Lily eats “meat,” lives “in Colurolow,” and “she likes to swim becus it’s fun and also swiming is and also she likes to dive.”
Jack
Jack likes to eat “freanch fries,” lives “in the woods,” and “likes to play hide and seek.”
Snootls
Snootls eats “toys,” lives in “space,” and likes to “fart fly snart.” Snootls is special because it “breths fiyre.”
Nik
Nik likes to eat “bernt stak,” lives in “the clawds,” and likes to “make thunder.” Nik is special because his “bake horn is mad out of litning.”
Woor Laks
Woor Laks likes to eat “Poceemon,” lives in “Poceemon Go,” and likes to “sleep.” Woor Laks is special because “he is a soomowe resulr.”
Dabrain
Dabrain likes to eat “Pirates,” lives in “the sea,” and it likes to “swim in the sea.” Dabrain is special because “it has long tentacles.”
Star
Star likes to eat “fish,” lives in “a house,” and it likes to “play.” What is special about Star you ask? Why “her dog,” of course!
If you love what you see here and would like to see more of it in the world please consider a donation in support of the official Monster Project.