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Creative Personal Statement

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“Creative” is definitely an adjective that has been used by others to describe me and my aspirations. At the ripe age of five, I began to take an interest in the visual arts. This interest started with Play-Doh and Legos, then moved to drawing, crafting, sewing, ceramics, and then painting. Every day my mom would find me on my bedroom floor—in deep concentration—working on a new art project. She would simply smile and leave the room to wait patiently until I was finished with my new masterpiece. Each year, my talent increased and every art teacher I had could see something special in me. However, I always thought that my art projects were nothing special and just a result of my self-expression. It was not until I entered high school and was …show more content…

This organization will also provide these youth with a counselor and a peer mentor that will help guide them along their journeys to prosperous futures. Exposing youth with socioeconomic hardships to the arts will help them to utilize their creativity, which will broaden their educational and career opportunities because creativity aids in learning by improving literacy and math skills, and aids in the development of professional skills such as, problem solving and communication. Similarly, being exposed to the arts will provide bully victims with an outlet for self-expression, and mental and emotional growth that could potentially save them from making any fatal decisions, as a result of the trauma caused by bullying. Unfortunately, I suffered from socioeconomic adversities as a youth and as a result, became a victim of bullying. Throughout those challenging years of being bullied, I suffered in silence because I felt I had no one who I could open up to, not even my mom. Luckily, I was able to overcome the bullying with the help of my creativity. Art became an outlet for me to open-up and finally break my silence. Therefore, I want to give at-risk youth an opportunity to overcome their obstacles and work towards fulfilling futures by

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