Whether a person has any social media accounts or not, they will still end up having an online identity. That identity could be that they exist, but if you were to enter their name in a search engine the results would be next to none. Others, like celebrities,  you can type in their names and the results will be anything but scarce. If my name, Brooke Eamigh, were to be typed into a search engine it gives just a little insight of who I am.

The search results link me to some of my social media account, to my parents, to my siblings, to some of my academic and community accomplishments, and to Alpha Sigma Tau. Here at Longwood, my role academically is living and breathing art education. I spend majority of my time in Bedford Hall and spend hours on hours volunteering at the Longwood Center for the Visual Arts. I am a member of Alpha Sigma Tau, which has made me have more of a role in the local community. The volunteer work we do opens me up to meeting people in the community and being able to help out in numbers of ways. AST also provides me with encouragement to uphold my academic role over any and everything else I do.

Art education is a major filled with different topics. Not only do you take education courses, but you have to be familiar with every different type of art. In this field you choose a mini-concentration to further your knowledge in that field, and I chose crafts. I then took it a step further and focused my crafts concentration on ceramics. There is something I just find fascinating about every aspect of ceramics. More importantly, I love that it is such a therapeutic thing for me.  Ceramics is a universal and timeless thing. I have spent hours at a time online researching anything I can about ceramics. The internet is actually very helpful to the art world in general. Most of the time artwork/museums/etc. are not accessible to us for a number of possible reasons, but the internet gives a way to still look into those things and let us have an opportunity to explore them, even if it is not in person.

As I update this blog, the common topic will be social media usage. I will mainly discuss the risks people take when using social media and how social media users can learn to avoid some of those risks. I will also discuss how aware people should be when they use social media because it can be a long lasting reflection on who they are.