Pumpp Gallery Essay

Throughout my early teen years, I was exposed to different mediums of art and discovered that I could express myself through more channels than just paper. Although Barry found comfort in her 11 x 17 newsprint and some paint, I was able to focus my energy on making music and taking photographs. Without my art teachers, I wouldn’t have the expressive outlet I do today. My childhood was not filled with unhappiness as Lynda Barry’s was, but from both backgrounds, we found a warmth from the exposure of art that the educational system gave to us.

Critically reflect on the positives and/or negatives of ethnic residential concentration as perceptible within specific landscapes in Sydney.

When David Bligh joined Dexter Southfield last September he brought the love of art, teaching, and experimentation with him. Bligh teaches upper school art with a focus on printmaking. He has shown work in numerous exhibitions, including UNC's Crossover and Composites: Hybrid Forms, Techniques & Media, The Color of Thin Air at Sculpture Fix Gallery -Two by Two: Small Scale Ceramic Sculpture Biennial at Eastern Washington State and The Future at Scuola Internationale di Grafica in Venice, Italy.

Over the years, I have flirted with visual art. It started with pencil drawing, continued as an affair with marker illustration, then a dalliance with lettering, and I now have a relationship with photography. However, my favorite art will never be displayed in museums or galleries. It is not static and immutable. Rather, my chosen medium is fluid, living, volatile. No matter how well rehearsed, it will never be the same again. That’s the beauty of performance art.

Georgia O’Keeffe was famous for her flower paintings, beautiful cityscapes, outstanding landscapes, and images of bright bones against the desert sky (“About Georgia O’Keeffe,” 2017). She based all of her artwork on objects and sights she saw in nature (“About Georgia O’Keeffe,” 2017). Georgia was inspired by her local surroundings in Texas, New Mexico, and New York City. While she lived in Texas, she painted images of deep, broad canyons, stunning sunrises, and the evening star that was still noticeable in daylight (“About Georgia O’Keeffe,” 2017). Georgia created abstract and realistic landscapes of the breathtaking views that were visible from her home in New Mexico. (“About Georgia O’Keeffe,” 2017). In New York, she produced a series that included some of the most original abstract pieces of art in American Modernism between 1918 and 1923 (“About Georgia O’Keeffe,” 2017).

Ever since the late 1990s Cari Casper-Bassler, Rob Thornberry, and Dan Krause have been a positive and productive teachers in the Belleville West Art Department. Each sharing load of teaching Photography, Ceramics, Intro To Graphic Arts, Graphic Design, and Painting. Those who are apart of the art community know very well what each teacher teaches, However a sudden change this year is shaking things up and leaving many students confused.

Sandy Skoglund has been in the forefront of contemporary art in the United States, as well as overseas, for nearly two decades. Her dramatic impact to the art world didn’t begin overnight. After sheer dedication to art education she received her BA degree in Studio Art in 1968 from Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. Upon getting her BA, she pursued further education at the University of Iowa where she received her MD. With her remarkable educational background, Skoglund decided to expand her horizons by teaching. Her teaching career grew at a rapid pace and she found herself teaching at the University of Hartford from 1973 to 1976. In late 1976, she was offered a position at Rutgers University, New Jersey,

During my time as volunteer at Somerset Dade Academy, I was able to work closely with the elementary and middle school teacher. During each visit, I was able to follow Ms. Lee’s daily routine. In the morning, we had 30 minutes to plan and get her cart ready with supplies she needed for the day. Also, we would both create various model artworks to inspire her students to create something more original and imaginative. She wheeled her cart through certain elementary classes depending on her schedule. Depending on the grade level she was assign to that day, we were able to teach her students the fundamental concepts of arts and major art movements, all in 30 minutes. Every three weeks, she would focus on a concept, artist, or art movement. Additionally, she would assign vocabulary words, which her students would copy and also had access to them online on Quizlet. At the end, she would administer a summative test on everything they learned for the past three weeks. On the other hand, Ms. Lee’s middle school classes were different, more one-on-one, and it was a one-hour period. Her students were able to recreate impressionist and expressionist artworks, such as Monet’s Water Lilies, Van Gogh Starry Night and The Bedroom on wall-sized canvases.

After she graduated, she moved to Chicago where she attended the Art Institute of Chicago from 1905 to 1906. A year later, she traveled to New York to continue her art studies and took classes at the Art Students League where she learned the ideas of a realist painter. Not only did she study in the classroom on art, she ventured out into art galleries as well. Another year later, she returned home to take care of her sick mother but that did not stop her from studying art. In 1912, she took art classes during the summer at the University of Virginia where she was influenced by Japanese art (“Georgia O 'Keeffe”).

“Colors and shapes make a more definite statement than words,” stated Georgia O’Keeffe 1976. Georgia O’Keeffe used art as a way to express her own feelings toward the world (“tacomaartmuseum.org”). She attended many colleges, art jobs, and travelled internationally looking for inspiration (“biography.com”). Non-stop searching for inspiration, time and dedication to make art a living, and her years of training and practicing to become the great artist she was, all contribute to Georgia O’Keeffe’s status as a great American.

Artists often paint as a way to make money on the side or as an enjoyable activity on a rainy day. However, artists like Kendra Baird use it for a much more powerful purpose. Baird states, ¨Each painting has a personal meaning to me. Sometimes it's obvious; sometimes it's buried within what simple elements represent to me. My subjects can be as simple as a few birds perched on a tree branch, or as complex as a woman losing her identity in the struggles of life.¨ Many of us, throughout our lives, blindly follow those in front of us--never stopping to think about those around or behind us, or experiences that have led us to the point in our lives where we stand now. This painting entitled, “Offering Truth”, by Kendra Baird illustrates the feeling

I graduated from Hilliard Darby High School this past spring. My love for art began very young with my father who always made sure to encourage my creativity. I remember making coil pots with him during the summer and then painting them. In the ninth grade I took painting which I immediately became attached too. For the past four years I have continued to expand my abilities and strengthen skills with the help of my teacher Mrs. Kulick-Brown. From there I have completed several commissioned pieces for teachers and their families. Painting has taught me a lot about color and composition. During high school I also was involved in ceramics where I competed in the annual ‘Feats of Clay” competition. I love the focus and serenity I experience

“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for” (O'Keeffe). As she began travelling internationally her work went in yet another direction. One that invoked a sense of the dynamic places she was visiting. Her painting focused on landscapes. Majestic mountain peaks, rivers, clouds, also the regional scenes like the harsh landscapes of the high deserts, adobe architecture and indigenous art. “The Brooklyn Museum’s exhibit “Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern” highlights the understated, androgynous style that helped shape the artist’s public persona. (Mlotek, 2017)”

I chose to do my research on a local ceramics artist named Heather Dahl. After interviewing Heather, I have learned a lot about her past and in addition, I believe that I've learned some helpful knowledge for myself going into the future. Heather Dahl grew up in Winnipeg and moved to Yarrow when she was 14 years old. Later on in life she moved to Vancouver and now has a studio here which was funded in 2007 called dahlhaus art. Heather believes that the environment she grew up in had an impact on herself as an artist, but personal experience, aesthetic and many more aspects also play a role in her story as well. She knew that she wanted to have a career in the arts by grade 9, but in the beginning she had always thought that she would become

She spoke to a friend who was attending Sheridan College for illustration and she saw what amazing works being done by students. Life drawings, painting, all the foundational skills to becoming an artist were being covered, as well as students being permitted to use all sorts of mediums to express themselves.