Help me, see me is the culminating exhibition for Asha's Masters in Arts; Art Education (MAAE) degree. This work chronicles significant milestones in the artist’s adult life (ages 18-34) that led her to become a community art educator. Through exploration of significant life experiences, the artist discovers how support needed during her own developmental milestones resembles the support needed by the artist’s current, transitional youth students in their journey to adulthood. 
Utilizing arts-based self-reflection in tandem with a reconstructionist pedagogy, this exhibit asserts that a valuable support system for transitional youth can be found in community art education. Within a reconstructionist community art education approach, students will find opportunities to explore social justice issues; seeing themselves in the world in a broader context (i.e., privilege, race, class, etc.); and learn how personal, individual drives and passions can be channeled beyond the self toward making a better existence for others around them. 

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