This document provides a worksheet to help individuals cultivate personal art based on important relationships and memories in their life. The worksheet instructs them to list 10 important people, describe how each is important in brief form, describe 6 important memories involving those people, and then pick one memory to begin sketching and generating art ideas about how to draw that memory. The goal is for the individual to reflect on meaningful relationships and memories as inspiration for personal art creation.

1. Cultivating Personal Art: Community Stories
pre-planning worksheet
This sheet is for you, so as long as what you write has meaning for you, then that is okay! NAME:
Step 1
List at least 10 people who are important in your life, with which you have an actual relationship (no celebrities etc.).
Step 2
Describe how the people in Step 1 are important to you. Be brief; no sentences are needed!
Step 3
Describe at least 6 memories that involve people from Step 1 that are extremely important/memorable to you.
Step 4
Pick ONE memory and make a quick list of ideas as to how you could draw that memory. Use the back of this sheet of
paper to begin sketching.