Cleaning my space to begin a new project is a much less talked about part of the artistic process. Maybe that’s because for a lot of artists it’s not an important one. Simply a task that needs completing. But for me, it’s crucial. I have a hard time letting pieces go. Having the inability to…
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The Following Video is a Round Table conducted by PSU Students looking into major media overview on BLM. This Round Table was conducted in part as a project for their Media and Culture Studies class. The students look at the movement Black Lives Matter and how the media surrounding it helps to shape people’s ideology…
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Even though Film Photography was no longer an option, I still really enjoyed the rest of my photography class. Instead of shooting the rest of my projects with my digital camera, I choose to use my instant film cameras. The Project to start me off with the switch from Film to Instant film was the…
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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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There is a time in every art student’s pursuit of skill and knowledge that they come upon the age-old division of art and craft. These words have been tools used to separate and explain different pieces throughout history. Some put more value in one category vs the other, some considering the two equally important. Some…
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“A drinking straw very obviously has a use. A million drinking straws is something else entirely.”- Tara Donovan Tara Donovan’s work has a way of drawing people in immediately. She is well known for her ability to take everyday items, often overlooked, and turn them into something abstract and foreign. She has used materials such…
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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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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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