Puppet Show

Have you ever worked with a collaboration on a large art project before?

reflect on a group project and write about your experience and how it worked.

Working on a group projects is usually difficult because communication is necessary. Normally when I work on a group project I have to do a lot outside of school, and because of that one person gets stuck with it.

What are your feelings about collaborative art?

I have always been interested in trying to do collaborative art, but i have never gotten the chance to try and do it. I have planned to do collaborative pieces but they never go through.

What did you contribute to your puppet making group?

When working with the female lion group I contributed to the building process, along with Sierra. When I worked in the ostrich group I contributed to building, adding feathers and designing the body.

What did your group contribute to the show?

My first group made the mother figure to the main lion. My second group made the the character who gave the egg to the young eland.

Explain how your team worked together?

My Team worked together to figure out any roadblocks we came up to. In addition to roadblocks we also gave advice on the works of others in the group.

Explain how the different art disciplines integrated. ( Think writers, artists, actors, dancers, musicians, sound, and lighting designers, the lights, tech, and blocking.)

The different art disciplines helped bring the pieces to life, without the other disciplines the show wouldn't happen. The art disciplines helped make a great show to benefit liv.

How did seeing the art on stage and in context affect your idea about collaborative art?

I thought that it was cool to see the work that we worked on brought to life by others. Collaborative art is interesting, the credit of each piece is shared, and not one person is given all the glory.

How did meeting the people from LIV make you feel about art and the work you did for the show?

Meeting the people from Liv showed what the show was really for. I felt like the art I contributed to actually did something, and it showed who we supported.

"Alone"

My Block print “Alone” is a remake of a painting I made over the summer. I wanted a challenge to make the painting into a block print. The print was a challenge because not only was the subject a hard one to transfer, it also had to be made into a reduction print.

Surrealism

For my art I chose the surrealism movement to draw inspiration from, due to the interesting compositions in the works

Elizabeth Murray

I chose the artist Elizabeth Murray due to her interesting paintings and themes she uses.

Stranded abroad

Hermosa Mariposa

Liebe

Art Honors III

In Art Honors III I have learned many things that will help me in my future with art.

I have learned valuable lessons in time management. Sometimes I would have deadlines surprise me and I would have work to meet them. I would plan my time I would have left to finish the project. In addition to Learning about time management I also learned about how it is ok to have a failed piece. My last project in my opinion was a failed piece, but I have learned from that. I learned what my strong suits are and what I am not so good at.

AP Art

Breadth

The AP 3D Design Breadth Portfolio features 8 pieces these pieces are meant to be fast, and show your range of approaches in art. as the breadth pieces evolve they slowly lead towards your concentration. Breadth pieces are not meant to follow a central theme and are recommended to be very diverse to help show a range.

Concentration

For my concentration I chose to go with the idea of Natural Architecture. My theme was created after connecting a story with my childhood and growing up on rural farmlands. Agriculture was a huge thing in my life growing up and I wanted to make sure I included it in my Concentration. All of my pieces are named with the Latin names of the insects that inspired them, as this helps the viewer connect each piece with the natural inspiration it has.

Ruins of Solenopsis invicta

This piece connects with my childhood because of a belief I had when I was younger. I beleived that the roots of corn stalks were ant churches. I used the corn roots and I compared them with the alters in catholic churches from my trip to Italy.

Ondotermes

This piece was inspired by the cathedral designed by Antoni Gaudi "La Sagrada Familia" and the mounds created by african termites

Actias luna

Actias luna was designed to show the emergence of a Luna moth from the cocoon the piece uses a light on the interior of the cocoon portion of the piece to help communicate the idea of emergence. This idea is further expanded on with the use of satin coming from the inside of the cocoon piece of the sculpture.

Amicta quadrangularis

Amicta quandrangularis is a piece which is inspired by the Israeli bagworm which is know for creating cocoons with a sticks. These cocoons have an amazing sense of layering. In order to recreate the layering of the cocoons I used layered cardboard.

Papilio glaucus

In this piece the wire sculpture is meant to represent the eastern tiger swallowtail which is a butterfly very common in North Carolina, I do plan to have paper/silk on the piece in an effort to connect this piece with the rest of the pieces in the concentration

Solenopsis invicta Restored

This piece was meant to be a recreation of the first piece in my concentration. After the first piece broke I planned to rebuild it. I created the piece to be more structurally sound than the predecessor. I found it easier to create this structure in wire because I am extremely used to the medium of wire rather than clay.