For my final project in Advanced Media, I was allowed to create a sculpture of my own design. This is the second time designing my own project without restrictions, and I was really excited. I started out the project by doing some sketches and just trying to brainstorm some potential ideas for the project. Some…
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To start this project I sat down with my class and we began to set some perimeters for ourselves. This is the first time I’ve ever designed my own large project for a 3d class, so I was super excited. Over all Grading Perimeters: Must be large in scale, or Multiple pieces. Students must actively…
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“Earth art, also referred to as Land art or Earthworks, is largely an American movement that uses the natural landscape to create site-specific structures, art forms, and sculptures.” -The Art Story Earthwork started in the 1960s and 1970s. It was a big part of the environmental movement, which also began in the 1960s. It’s using…
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For this project the goal was to create at least 10 non-representational forms from the same material. The forms should relate to each other, without being the exact same. I started my ideation process by drawing over 100 non-representational forms. After I did that I started to look at what I wanted to create. When…
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To be perfectly up front. I really struggled with creating ideas for the wooden part of this piece. Since I’ve never worked with wood before, or even really stepped into a woodshop for that matter, it was difficult to design something and know I could build it. What I did know, was that I wanted…
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The second part of my Triptych went through a lot of changes during the ideation process. I started out by looking up images from the industrial revolution and sketching from there. I ended up playing around with imagery of a large industrial chimney. Wanting to represent industrial times. Though I liked the chimney and thought…
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Durability. It’s something that a lot of people look for in their everyday products. For the objects that we buy that have a purpose or function, we often need them to last so that we can reuse them. Even our fragile things, like a glass cup, are made to stand the tests of time. In…
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Here is my Gestures for the Chair project I started, as well as my maquette that I made from paper. I did a combination of hanging and standing chairs. I played with if someone would be able to actually comfortably sit on it, or if it would be more visual then functional. I ended up…
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If I said to think of a ceramic piece of work, what kind of piece would come to your mind? A mug? A vase? Maybe a specific sculpture you saw in a museum? When someone asks me to think about ceramic art, the pieces I imagine tend to have certain things in common. Traditional looking…
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Last project we focused on throwing decent cylinders on the wheel. Working for height, even walls, even lips, and flat bottoms. For this project, not only were we still striving for these things, but we also began to learn how to add galleries to our forms, and create lids for them. A gallery is a…
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