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Senior artist statements due 4/27, 4/28

Artist Statements

Writing an Artist’s Statement

(Please email the artist statement using Arial, pt20)

§    Student Name

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§  Title of the Piece – this alone helps the viewer understand the subject or makes him/her think about the work in a different way

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§  What did I do? (Describe the artwork, including the medium, subject matter, and inspiration.)

§  My artwork was inspired by whom or what?

§  What happened along the way? (Did anything interesting or unusual happen?  Did I solve any problems in the process? Did I change my approach to doing the project? etc.)

§  What did I learn through the art project?

§  What would I do differently next time?

§  Why is this piece important to me?

Sample Artist Statements

Ex. 1. My piece was inspired by the art of Sumi-e.  It was created by the traditional Sumi-e tools, a grinding ink stone, rice paper , Chorya brush, Ran-Chiku brush, and Maruyama brush.  After my painting was half way completed some ink water spilled on my paper but I turned it into more bamboo.

Ex.2.  Art is a way of expressing how I want to be and what I want to do.  Art is a very important thing for me because it helps me relax and be alone in my head.  In class we tried to recreate a few pieces by the artist Franz Marc’s “Blue Horses”. I had meant for the horse to be bluer, but that was no fun using only a few colours so I tried my best to use as many colours as I could.  When I finished painting it turned out not as I expected it to.  I wish I had tried to draw the horses’ anatomy better and the perspective, but I guess it can’t be as perfect as I would like. I liked Franz Marc’s style and I think I should try different things more often than just sticking to my regular medium.  I never usually use paint because I do not like the results of my work and I wish I could paint what I saw, but I realize it doesn’t have to be like how I planned it to be.

Encaustic painting student work

Lois Arthur, Encaustic painter

Painting for me is inspired by emotion, a need, a physical sensation, an experience of determination, by the need to do and undo, repeat and erase, need to release and create. Uncertainty is exciting for it presents surprises and mystery.   I love working with encaustic medium, with hot messy wax, with pigment and vibrant colors. 

Encaustic painting demo

WEEFC sponsored: Encaustic painting

Encaustic is a Greek word meaning “to heat or burn in” (enkaustikos). Heat is used throughout the process, from melting the beeswax and varnish to fusing the layers of wax. Encaustic consists of natural bees wax and dammar resin (crystallized tree sap). The medium can be used alone for its transparency or adhesive qualities or used pigmented. Pigments may be added to the medium, or purchased colored with traditional artist pigments. The medium is melted and applied with a brush or any tool the artist wishes to create from. Each layer is then reheated to fuse it to the previous layer

Common art at KARMA

http://commoncathedral.org/common-art/ Welcome to common art - a program of common cathedral which provides space, materials and caring support staff to support unhoused and low income individuals as they develop their artistic abilities. People who live in shelters, rooming houses, on unclaimed couches and benches, and on Boston's streets, gather every Wednesday at Emmanuel Church on Newbury Street to draw, paint, sculpt, make crafts, and to share with other artists in like circumstances. For most members, common art is a singular chance to express their artistic gifts. For some, art is a professional path, interrupted and suspended by calamity and homelessness. For otheres, its an opportunity to express unheard opinions, ideas and truths. For others, its pure joy, an oasis of form and color in otherwise dry times. For all, its a simple and welcome relief from daily difficulty. For many common art members, art is a way of life. For others, its a new discovery. But for all, art is passion, expressing and affirming life itself, a defiant or gentle "yes" in the face of stigma amid the constant struggle of poverty and homelessness. common art was begun in 1999 by a group of un-housed men and women with the assistance of ministers from St. John the Evangelist Church on Bowdoin Street. From its inception, the mission guiding common art has been to serve individuals within Boston's poor and homeless communities by providing resources and opportunities for creating and participating in the arts. This is a wonderful opportunity within the Boston community. As one person expressed, "common art is famous! Everybody knows about it on the street!" In its present form, common art works both to promote access to the arts for its members and to help facilitate the expression of members' artistic gifts. In this way, common artacknowledges the dignity of all human beings and honors the divine creativity within each person. Through proactive advocacy, common art provides companionship and inclusive community, a place to come together and to share with other artists. common art embraces all artistic expression as healing and healthful, affirming of life itself. As Shaun McNiff of Lesley College expressed in his book Art as Medicine, "Whenever illness is associated with loss of soul, the arts emerge spontaneously as remedies, as soul medicine." common art is guided by this profound understanding. common art is open to all.common art meets once a week, on Wednesday from 10am to 2pm at Emmanuel Church  When: April 10th, 2016 from 10:00am- 2:00pm  Where: Karma-Newton, 57 Union Street Newton Center

Karma, 57 Union St., Newton Centre, MA 02459 Try it free today

K12 art show and Ice cream social is May 17th from 6-8pm, not May 19th

VARSITY ART T SHIRTS FOR SALE. ANY ART STUDENT CAN BUY. SCROLL DOWN TO NEXT LINK

Senior sign up

May 17^th- K-12 art show and ice cream social

Seniors please sign up

	Senior Demo	Set up, materials	Time 6:45-7:30
Katie Valle
Gabby  Rodowicz	Henna
Tenzin Norzin
Kimmie Nahigian
Arm
Maddie Hayes	Painting	Acrylic paint and canvas
Natalia Gormley
Katie Marlow-Benedick
Isabella Cerrutti
Langley Pierpont
Zoe Morris

 

ART SHIRTS

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