Up until recently, I have never considered myself an artistic or creative person. I believed that I had zero artistic potential because I couldn’t draw and had horrible penmanship. This all changed last year in my Environmental Design class. During my freshman year of high school, I couldn’t take P.E. or a sport because of my back surgery (that’s a story for another time), so I decided to use my free period to earn my Visual Arts credit. Environmental Design is basically an interior design class. I always knew that I liked looking at houses and going into Ikea, but I never truly knew the extent of my interest until I took that class. Below is an image of my final project. It reads “A Living Room Fit for a Family” as I was assigned the task of creating a board to present my living room design as if I was presenting it to a real client. The rest of my projects are on the website I made for the class. 

This class showed me that to be artistic doesn’t mean that you’re only good at drawing and painting. I felt that through my love of interior design, I could make art by drafting a floorplan or creating a board. This class allowed me to express my creativity in a way that I felt comfortable.