Paula Scher, An American Graphic Designer Who Was Born

Georgia O’Keeffe was born to the parents of Francis Calyxtus O’Keeffe and Ida (Totto) O’Keeffe on November 15, 1887 near Wisconsin. Georgia was the second oldest child and by the age of ten she knew she wanted to become an artist someday. Her first aspiration was doing abstracts. She was selective about what she painted, but often times she would paint to please others and not herself. Her paintings were thought of as sexual paintings because of the way they were drawn and painted in which she would say is one’s own opinion. Georgia O’Keeffe was best known for her flower canvas and southwestern landscapes. Her husband who is a famous photographer by the name of Alfred Stieglitz used to paint nice portraits of her. She was very fond of him, they both liked what each other did as far as how they were making ends meet, and he just didn’t want her to sell any of her paintings. He would often times tell people “No” so they wouldn’t buy any of her paintings because he wanted them all to himself. She had an interest in nature and used bright colors in her paintings.

Feminist artist Betye Saar was born on July 30, 1926 in Los Angeles, California. Her father died when she was five years old; after that her family moved to Pasadena, California. To make a living for the family, Saar’s mother became a seamstress and also recycled and reused a lot of daily scraps that weren’t used to make things that her children needed. The remaking and looking over everyday house things influences some of Betye Saar’s later work. Betye Saar’s art career began in 1945 where she went to The University of California Los Angeles and majored in design. She received a bachelor’s in design in 1949 but worked as a social worker and continued design on the side. She back to college, California State University at Long Beach, in 1958 to get a degree in education in which she was very successful in receiving. In Long Beach, Saar was introduced to and got very acquainted with printmaking. This was the start of her artistic career and soon she began to do artwork that incorporated various themes such as

She attended Dunbar High School where she won a scholarship to Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh but was denied because of her race. But Catlett didn’t let that get her down, greater things were coming her way. In 1935 she enrolled in Howard University, where she was first introduced to art. She studied design, printmaking, and drawing which was inspired by the speculations of Alain Locke and James A. Doorman. For a short time she worked as a muralist in the mid-1930s for the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration which was made in 1935 by U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. It was to make work for those affected by the Great Depression. Elizabeth got impacted by the social activism of Mexican muralist Diego Rivera during this

Georgia Totto O’Keeffe was born on November 15, 1887 in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. Throughout her long career, O’Keefe covered a wide range of subjects including landscapes, flowers, bones and skyscrapers using different medias such as charcoal, watercolor and oil paint. Having contributed many pieces of iconic and original artwork, she is considered by many to be the “Mother of American Modernism”.

I have a passion for helping children and an interest in pursuing school social work, I decided to interview my mother’s co-worker, Belle Walker. Belle is an exceptional children’s (EC) social worker for Union County Public Schools and works directly with students and families who need assistance finding resources in order for them to succeed in the classroom. Belle is a very passionate person and loves her work. During her undergraduate, she held an internship at a transitional homeless shelter working with families. As she attended graduate school in Illinois, Belle worked night shifts in a domestic violence shelter as a counselor. After graduate school, she decided to move back to Charlotte and found a job working with A Child’s Place

the memorial then drawn by the young student in architecture Yale University is today the most visited monument and the most revered in the USA, recognized as a masterpiece architectural (Langmead, 2011). Hundreds of thousands of visitors are excited and comforted by reading and touching the names of the dead and missing inscribed on the black granite wall in form V. In view of the visitors and memories they file with the names of their dear departed, the observer must recognise that Maya Lin has achieved its goal: "This memorial is dedicated to those who are not here; for that we remember them” (Fleming,

In 1965, she changed jobs and moved to Paraphernalia in New York to be a designer for them. Working at Paraphernalia is where she created her alternative, whimsical, slightly hippie-esque style. Five years later, she took creative control of Alley Cat, where she stayed until they went out of business in the mid 70’s.The 70’s were a tough decade for Johnson, as her “youthful demographic” grew up and stopped buying her designs. When Alley Cat went out of business she kept money coming in by doing freelance design work in children’s and maternity clothing. In 1971 she was the youngest designer (age 29) to win the Coty Fashion Critics Award for her work at Alley Cat. It wasn’t until 1978 that she felt like she could come back with the revival of punk. "It felt like a reincarnation of the 60s.It felt the same as when I was 22." She worked with famous artist Andy Warhol and fellow designer Mary Quant to pioneer the “Youthquake” movement

Below is a brief biography of one of the youngest African American artist Kara Elizabeth Walker. Walker was born in November 26, 1969 in Stockton, California, US. Currently, she lives in New York, NY. Walker’s dad Larry Walker is an art professor and her mother Gwen Walker is a clothing designer. In 1996, Walker married Klaus Burgel, who is a jewelry designer and they both gave a birth to a daughter name Octavia. Walker has been educated at Atlanta College of Art, BA, 1991 and Rhode Island school of design, 1994. Just right after she graduated in 1994, she started a career as a professor. However, the time when she traveled to New York City to join a meeting, her friend persuaded her to hand in her work in the Drawing Center. That was the turning point of a professor to an artist (“Kara Walker” Contemporary). Walker worked in a several of medium such as: “Paper cutouts, gouache mixed with coffee, brass rubbing and overhead projectors” (Harvey).

Born 1989 in Denver, Colorado, Casteel received her MFA in 2014 from Yale School of Arts in New Haven, CT. In 2015 Casteel was awarded artist residences at Yaddo and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council as well as the 2015-16 Art-In-Residences at The Studio Museum in

Margaret Rose Preston (her full name) was born In Adelaide, Australia on the 19th of April 1875. Her parents were David McPherson (her father) and Prudence Cleverdon (her mother). Margaret went to The National Gallery of Victoria Art School. The media that she used in her work was printing and her main style and characteristics was impressionism. Which means that she liked to capture her images without detail but with bold colours. Margaret’s drawings were influenced by Australian

She does not just stop at her artwork, she is a professor at Duke University. She is the Esbenshade professor of the Practice of Visual Arts. An Esbenshade professor is one who

She repeatedly re-examines the woman’s roles in society and history, she doesn’t believe that her works have negative or explicit messages, which is why she leaves them untitled making them open to interpretation. In the late 1980’s she expanded her range to more gross subjects. I believe her works strongly support woman’s rights, which was, is still is a very important topic. She typically photographed herself in a range of costumes. To create her photographs, often times she would shoots alone in her workspace, taking on many roles such as make-up artist, director, talent, and so

Prior to that, she was Head of Production at Method Studios, Prime Focus and Unit Post Production in London, and also at Infinite Frameworks in Singapore, managing large teams of artists on major productions. She began her career at Cinesite as a CG artist and now returns as part of the senior VFX management team.

Although a myriad of books has been read over the years, one genuinely stood out; The Wanderer by Sharon Creech. Beyond doubt it has been my escape book, the one that is always there, the book will never develop boredom and still I will remember it word for word. Marvelous books such as this, gives the reader a fantastic sense of being in the book; hiding below deck watching the story unfold in front of their eyes all the while feeling like if they looked behind them there would be a colossal wave about to knock them out of the book. Moreover when the reader understands this book, it seems that the characters know them by the way the words are laid out on the page. They feel trapped in the endless arguments of relatives that are stuck on the

She was born near Pensacola, Florida in 1910. Unfortunately, as an infant both her parents passed away; therefore, she lived with foster families. By the age of 15, she worked at a beauty salon. When she was 22 she moved to New York in which she received a really good position at a beauty salon. She would travel to Miami Beach, Florida to work at the shop they had there. In 1932, she met Floyd Bostwick Odlum, a banker. They both moved to southern-California and lived on a 100-acre ranch. He introduced her into aviation. Cochran went to training and got her license. In 1934 and 1935, she entered her first race, but soon had to drop out due to engine problems. During World War 2, Cochran was the first women to ferry a B-17 bomber to Britain, but also she recruited 25 women to fly as well. By doing this she earned the Army’s Distinguished Service Medal in 1935. (Robinson, 2000)