Open Form
For this project, we created a dynamic form using the combination of a kitsch item and a piece of fruit. The materials we used were low fire clay and plaster molds.
Do You Draw What You See?
If I asked you to draw a house what would it look like? What about a person? Would you draw a stick figure? We often learn to draw things in a certain way, even if that’s not what the object looks like in real life. This collection of things we know simply by being taught…
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The Semiotic Way
I’m jamming out to some pandora studying when all of a sudden some bears carrying toilet paper pop up on my screen, and my Halsey changes to a dreaded jingle that will be stuck in my head for the rest of the day. Before the jingle even tells me, I already know what these bears…
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Artist Research Project: Ann Hamilton
“One doesn’t arrive — in words or in art — by necessarily knowing where one is going. In every work of art, something appears that does not previously exist, and so, by default, you work from what you know to what you don’t know. — You have to be open to all possibilities and to…
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Visiting Artist Curator Karina Kelley
This semester’s visiting artist Curator Karina Kelley erupted such a war of emotions in me. There was a lot of great information she shared with us. A lot of it was very helpful and eye-opening as an artist. At the same time, there was also a lot of biased ideas and opinions that she presented…
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Three Forms Project
We started our Three Forms project with wire. Our goal was to take a cube and change it to be more dynamic. I started with thumbnails trying to brainstorm how to make a cube dynamic.
Candy Canon
Think quick, what were your top five candies as a kid? When posed with the question most people have very similar answers. KitKat, Reeces, Sour Patch, Skittles, Hershey, mostly big name brand candies. Now, it’s possible that these candies are just so good they are so many peoples kid favorites, but I have a different…
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