Students will launch the project by translating permission-cleared community stories into rapid oil pastel sketches and examining how culture and personal experience shape belonging. They will compare interpretations, surface assumptions, and begin preparing to interview a community member respectfully.

Students will prepare for and conduct a respectful community-member interview, organize firsthand evidence about culture and belonging, and translate that evidence into an approved story summary, empathy map, design brief, and three distinct visual narrative concepts.

Students will test oil pastel storytelling techniques, gather feedback from peers and a community user, revise from documented evidence, and complete a respectful visual narrative and supporting gallery texts.

Students will present their oil pastel visual narratives and interview evidence to an authentic hallway-gallery audience, gather feedback, make a final display revision, and reflect on their learning.