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Idea LabSupporting Diverse Creative Development at OSUBy Ben Delgado, MA Student, Arts Policy and Administration and Idea Lab Coordinator, Urban Arts SpaceArt has always been a part of my life.As a child I made works with crayons,markers, clay, and pencils. My interestsdeveloped as I grew into more complexmedia such as painting, ceramics, crocheting,and ultimately film. It was my passionfor film that led me on the winding pathto The Ohio State University. As a master’sstudent, I am fortunate to be able to workfor the OSU Urban Arts Space, an offcampusgallery and alternative performingarts space in downtown Columbus,where I am the Idea Lab Coordinator.Idea Lab supports Ohio State Universitystudents in their creative, entrepreneurial,and sustainable activities through projectsupport, workshops, mentoring, andrelationship building. We seek projectsthat engage the community throughthe arts, innovation, and financial andenvironmental sustainability with lastingimpact on the Columbus community.Idea Lab is an amazing opportunity.Every Ohio State student may apply toreceive hands-on assistance and guidanceas well as program support for projectsand ideas. We hold workshops, facilitatecommunity connections, providefunding, and extend our support to helpmove projects along in all stages. IdeaLab is organized each year by the IdeaLab Coordinator (who is also an annualBarnett Fellow, designated to the Spaceby the Department of Arts Administration,Education, and Policy) with the assistanceof several Urban Arts Space staff who helpto promote the call for entries and supportrelated events. With essentially a one-personstaff that rotates annually, getting theword out is no easy task. At times, it seemsan uphill battle to give away money.While as a Mexican-American I findit easy to immediately extend my sympathiesand camaraderie to the greaterLatino community, it is all too easy todevelop blinders to the concerns ofother communities. Fixated on my ownfamiliar struggle, I can forget to lookbeyond my backyard to see others in differentcommunities struggling with thesame issues. For example, the 2013 IdeaLab has awarded funding to a projectentitled Dumarka Soomaaliyeed VoicesUnveiled. It is an interactive, virtual, photoexhibition space exploring the way thatyoung Somali women experience andunderstand their role within their communityhere in Columbus. Currently theproject is touring through the Columbuspublic libraries. The goal is to extend theproject into the virtual realm in order tomake it participatory and reach a wideraudience for new exhibitions and worksdocumenting the lives of Somali womenin the Columbus area and throughout thecountry. This is just one example of howIdea Lab can help the promotion of diversityand give voice to a cultural minority.Historically, the Latino community inthe United States has lacked significantrepresentation both in the art world andas members of the collegiate class. IdeaLab provides an opportunity for widerrecognition of Latinos through projectproposals from students of all culturalbackgrounds for projects that focus ondiversity and community development.Idea Lab not only facilitates the expressionof creative ideas, but also providesa platform for students to demonstratetheir passions beyond the classroom, thusextending that work past the boundariesof campus.This sort of idea was never on my radargrowing up. With parents who came tothe country as teenagers who had to worktheir way up to living on $20 a week withtwo kids, it’s a wonder there was time, letalone money, to provide my sister and mewith artistic opportunities. Art and creativityare essential to the developmentof a culturally literate individual. Withcultural literacy comes cultural and socialcapital that manifest into greater accomplishments.The development of this kindof literacy can begin at an early age, butfor parents who have to cope with thebasic challenges of language acculturationand putting food on the table, sucha Bourdieuvian ideal is the last thing ontheir minds. This is where Idea Lab canhelp.Idea Lab offers a push forward tostudents with innovative ideas. AsCoordinator, I am proud to be one of thestudents afforded the opportunity tocontribute to my community in a meaningfulway. It is important that we workto improve our representation throughactions as well as words. Idea Lab is aperfect vehicle for Latino OSU students totake on that task.OSU Urban Arts Space is located at 50 W.Town Street in the historic Lazarus Building.2013 Idea Lab projects will appear throughoutthe spring and summer at various locationsin the community. Applications forthe 2014 Idea Lab cycle will be availableautumn, 2013. For more information visituas.osu.edu/idealab or call 614-292-8861.10
Summer, Sutures, and South AmericaA Brazilian Surgical Oncology InternshipBy Alexandra Dulin, Junior, Center for Life Sciences EducationThe patient had been prepared, thenurse and surgical technologist waitedpatiently, and I was scrubbed in andlooking to the resident standing on theopposite side of the bed. He noddedencouragingly and I took a deep breath.I gripped the scalpel and made the firstincision on the right superior shoulder ofthe patient.Students on the pre-medicine trackwith hopes of specializing in surgeryalways dream about their first time operatingon their own. While the little detailsmay differ from one student to the next,all fantasize the moment one firmlystates: “Scalpel.” But this was no fantasy.At twenty years old, in the most southernstate of Brazil, I performed surgery. Underthe supervision of a resident, I removedmalignant melanoma from a man’sshoulder and stitched up the four-inchincision. While it may not have been themost glamorous moment, I became asurgeon with the first cut.What sounds like a fantasy was myreality for six weeks. During the summerof 2012, I lived out my dream of being asurgeon. I was treated like an intern andwas able to participate in every consultation,exam, and surgery. Even withoutany medical experience on my part,the doctors took the time to teach medifferent skills and held me to certainstandards. From my first day, I was inthe operating room scrubbing in. I wastaught how to place sutures, do skingrafts, intubate patients, insert catheters,and countless other procedures. I washeld responsible for rounds and checkingvitals of my attending’s patients. I learnedmore than I could have imagined.Outside of the operating room, Ilearned what only experience couldteach me. Interacting with patients ona personal level helped me understandthat what made the surgeons I wassurrounded by truly superb was theirdemeanor and their kindness. Theirextensive knowledge of the medicine,diagnosis, and treatment was impressive,but it was the way that they interactedeach and every day with their patientsthat set them apart. The relationshipsthat the surgeons had with their patientsmade fighting cancer seem that mucheasier, but had a difficult side-effect:saying goodbye. Having such personalconnections made it so that when aperson died from the terrible disease, themedical staff didn’t just lose a patient, butalso a friend.While these relationships are what setapart the medical staff from any I haveinteracted with before, it was impossiblydifficult watching the pain they feltwhen patients died. When working withoncology patients, dealing with death ispart of the job. Before working in Brazil,I believed that the best way to handle somany emotions was to become immune tothem and thus become robotic and unattached.However, after spending so muchtime with the patients and staff, I realizedthat it was impossible to do so. Indeed, itwas the worst thing I could do as a medicalprofessional. Attitude and outlook areeverything in medicine, andshutting those emotionsout doesn’t make onestaff member better thananother. Instead, it restrictshow large an impact theyare able to make on apatient and their familymembers.The most valuablelesson I learned wasn’t aprocedure or a skill, butinstead something I couldnever learn in a classroom.Spending all day in an operatingroom and activelyparticipating made mereevaluate whether or notsurgery was something towhich I wanted to dedicatemy entire life. Now, surgicaloncology is the only careerI can imagine. I am confidentthat when I graduatefrom medical school andam placed in my own operatingroom, I will be ableto handle it well. I haveevery confidence that I amdestined to be a surgeon.It is the only thing that I want to do withmy life.Further, this confidence has transcendedmy desires to go to medical school. It hasgiven me much more motivation in everyaspect of my life. I am able to slow downand enjoy each of my classes instead offeeling anxious and unsure. Most importantly,I have become more stringentlymotivated to do well in all that must comebefore. The decision to seek an internshipand go somewhere unexpected haschanged my life for the better.In 2012, Alexandra Dulin worked in HospitalSanta Rita in Porto Alegre, Brazil for sixweeks. She was under the tutelage of Dr.Felice Riccardi, surgical oncologist.www.quepasa.osu.edu Spring Semester 2013 11
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