Virtual Exhibition

This project intends to develop a comprehensive sculpture curriculum for High school learners and serve as a reference guide for sculpture teachers. Specifically, it is designed to for the study of advanced sculpture, in the state of Georgia high school education. Sculpture education does not only foster creativity but makes the student a complete human being, here I mean the student educates his/her three H. The Head(mind), the Hand, and the Heart. Students educate their Heads by exploring and figuring out how to get a project done. They develop problem-solving techniques from that for personal development in the future. They educate their Hands using tools and materials to acquire skills and create sculptures. They educate their heart by appreciating the work they do. A student must have a complete experience of three-dimensional forms: the tactile quality, the special expanse of volume and form; the visual experience combined with the tactile; the effect of light on forms. Nature presents three-dimensionality to the students, buildings, trees, cars, furniture, appliances, etc. All these elements of threedimensional objects should be a wholly must for sculpture in the visual experiences of life. Sculpture, a three-dimensional art, gives life experience for the student’s future through direct formal exposure to nature.

Knowing that many kids' formal exposure to art forms ends at high school, and that these students who choose not to study sculpting after high school are deprived of this experience, is quite concerning.

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My project centered on curriculum designing of advanced sculpture. So, the pictures uploaded here explains the processes in the various sculpture.

The lack of diversity in the world has always had a negative effect on people of color, who are not able to see themselves represented as world leaders, superheroes, or even princesses, until very recent years. While the evolvement of social media and the introduction of more characters of color in TV and film has improved diversity in media regarding race and ethnicity, the representation of a diverse family is still not adequate enough. Students are not seeing their loved ones represented in tv, film, or literature, while simultaneously, other students are not becoming sensitive and aware to different types of families that exist. By targeting educational resources, the promotion of diversity can begin at a younger age and create more inclusive classrooms hence a more inclusive and sensitive society. While as a society we are aware that different types of families exist and thrive, students deserve to see themselves more in media and feel like they, too, have stories that deserve to be told.

Perfectionism can have a negative effect on the identity of an artist. The goal for my project was to experience how using an abstract art journal could help overcome perfectionism in art. As an art teacher, I have not been active in creating personal art. I wanted to re-engage in creating art by using small abstract pieces in a journal to shift my perspective from self-perceived dissatisfaction to positive self-awareness. Although perfectionism can have positive effects on an artist, my perception is that perfectionism has had a negative effect on me as an artist. I created several small abstract pieces each week with a brief annotation and stored them in a journal. At the end of the project, I reflected on the evolution of the 60 completed pieces. The result is a style that helped me express myself as an artist while learning to be more focused on the process instead of the outcome of a completed piece. The use of abstract art can be used as a springboard in the art classroom to help students create pieces of art that help shift the mindset of making mistakes. 

Body neutrality is simply appreciating and accepting one’s body for what it can do and how it looks, even if it is not where one would like it to be. Body neutrality is a middle of the road approach, right in between body positivity and body negativity. Falling into a negative mindset is not a productive way of coping with any perceived shortcomings involving one's body or outward appearance. Those who get caught in an overly negative body mindset are at risk of multiple issues related to body image and self-esteem including depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and self-harm. Adopting a body neutral mindset has been helpful for me personally; allowing space to appreciate what my body does for me and what it may become capable of doing as I work towards healing from past body image issues, disordered eating, self-hate, and self-neglect.

This body of work is a reflective exploration of my past relationship with my body and the positive effects that I have experienced since adopting a body neutral mindset. My body of work incorporates a variety of mediums to help share my narrative including video, photography, sculpture, ready-mades, and performance art.

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Since becoming an art teacher, I have found myself practicing my creativity through the act of creating art less and less with each passing year. The only art I ever seemed to create was work samples for lessons, I had begun to lose sight of who I was as an Artist myself, and only focus on the Art Teacher side of me. Through the studio classes in this program, the daily practice of creating artwork, and the use of handmade journals, I sought to reestablish the connection to my own artist identity and begin to once again truly know what it is to practice my creativity. I also began creating work that would in the process reflect my identity as an artist, which was to be a product and reflection of my journey of reconnecting to my creativity. The topic of this project and the resulting paper is the reflective exploration of rediscovering my creativity and identity as an artist, and not just as an art teacher. This was done through daily art creation, using journals, sketchbooks, and reflection as data. At the completion of my project, I found that the only way for me to keep my connection to creativity is to nurture through the act of self care and journaling, and taking an active role in my own creative process and journey. 

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I find myself in a constant state of improvement. I always want to do better and be better. As I reflect upon where I am currently, where I would like to be, and where I am headed in my career as a mother, an educator, an artist, and a student, I am constantly trying to progress. I can see where I am lacking and need to make growth as well as where I am finding successes and can identify how I might apply those traits to other areas. This project was completed in hopes of evaluating the vulnerability of digging into who I am as an artist and how being a single mother, teacher, and student effect my personal artwork. I created artworks along with a journal to document the exploration of who I am today, as an artist who is also a mother, teacher, and student.

Student engagement in learning is a hot topic in education and important to all education stakeholders. Teachers create curriculum with the goal to increase learning which happens when students' desire to interact with the content. Creating an equitable curriculum that mirrors the diversity of the student body - seeing themselves in the artists and works being shown - would, logically, create an interest to interact with the curriculum. The art education of the pre-service art educator is often focused on the Western, European, white male dominated art. Changing the art curriculum to incorporate more diversity so that students can see themselves reflected in the artists and artworks being shared in the educational experience would enhance the level of engagement of students with the content and result in greater engagement in the learning and creating process.

"The Lower World” is my attempt at contextualizing themes revolving around the constant struggles associated with earning a living in the United States. Similar to the world that the series takes inspiration from, there is a constant strain to find the ideal work life balance. Bills serve as an ever-impeding reminder that we have finite resources at our disposal in this capitalist society and we must essentially sell our metaphorical souls, represented by our time and autonomy, to survive from pay period to pay period in this system. “The Lower World” takes these espoused themes surrounding work and capitalist survival and depicts them in an irreverence and facetiousness that can be digested by the masses. The characters’ respective existences serve as an analogous perspective into the way that we individually make ends meet, or perhaps thrive, within our occupational roles in such a capitalist driven society. In addition to the themes surrounding occupational culture, there also exists the thematic examination of how we interact with others in a workplace and personal setting, the characters will explore the everyday skills that we learn and maintain to protect our perceived professionalism and the subsequent internal conflict that persists between a person’s work self and personal self.

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The story of The Neon Bee is this: A young tech phantom thief (Desmond) steals from massive corporations and tags (code for graffiti) on their buildings to raise awareness for his section of the city in constant poverty and crime. His brother, a no-nonsense detective (Haki), continuously opposes him despite profoundly believing in the message. The story for the short bits of animation I have is that Desmond had broken into the secret military facility of a major tech corporation. Amidst that, he accidentally trips an alarm and is chased out as he learns about the large group of Drones said company is making. During his escape, he runs into the detective. My project was my attempt to blend 2D animation with 3D environments. I achieved this primarily by using Blender for the 3D things and Clip Studio Paint for the 2D animation. I began the project with much work as I had been developing this idea for a few years. I ended this project with one main deliverable: a pencil test animation. 

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William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) was a controversial figure. He was a noted abolitionist in the decades leading up to the Civil War, often using strong language to speak about slavery and slave-ownership. To help spread his views, Garrison was editor and cofounder of an abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator. He regularly wrote editorials about the evils of slavery. However, he was not just a journalist and abolitionist; Garrison was also a great abolitionists at the time, though they wanted to end slavery, they did not think that women should have the same rights as men.

 Aspects of Garrison and his work exist in a few museums in the United States, including The National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum. However, there is no museum or exhibit dedicated solely to Garrison. Even the site of his newspaper, The Liberator, no longer exists there is just a placard on the street of where the building was. This exhibition aims to showcase Museum visitors will learn about his newspaper, his relationships with other reformers, his thoughts on religion and the Constitution and some of the controversies he had. The goal of this exhibit is to educate guests on a figure they may not be aware of, and the work he did to change the course of American history.

This project consists of a paper proposing an international polio database that would allow physical collections related to polio to be digitalized and shared with the public prototyped as an Omeka site of David J. Sencer CDC Museum polio objects. The David J. Sencer CDC Museum has a large collection of physical polio objects illustrating the historical impact of this ancient, global, life-changing and preventable disease. The database uses the Omeka platform, and would allow multiple institutions to contribute entries. A sample of the collection on the Omeka site provides the basic template for the David J. Sencer CDC Museum to create an international polio database. This proposed database would allow the David J. Sencer CDC to build on my project to allow researchers, students, teachers and the public interested in the continuum of polio eradication to connect to other institutions for further research and visitation opportunities.

This is a proposal for a temporary exhibit, done in collaboration with the Atlanta History Center, for one of the archival photo collections held by the Kenan Research Center. The photo collection is a variety of photographs from Backstreet Atlanta in the 1980s, 90s, and early 2000s. Backstreet was a prominent gay bar and drag cabaret club and the exhibition hopes to both provide a glimpse into the world of gay bars during that time, and to emphasize the importance of gay bars and drag clubs as a community space for LGBTQ+ individuals. It is also to help highlight a very important piece of Atlanta’s queer history during the current time when the LGBTQ+ community in the US is facing a huge number of political attacks aimed at trying to reduce the community. The proposal includes information for creating the exhibit such as a floor plan and exhibit layout in the gallery, didactic texts, provenance, and background research into the subject and its importance.

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