Bios! and other Important stuff!

Hi folks! if you weren't here today please type up a very short (like 2 sentences max) bio for the brochure. Something like: "Larissa Norman is an illustration student at UVU. Her BFA show, called In Transit, will be taking place in Fall 2011." Please get these to me ASAP! Thanks guys!

also, our second workshop is on Saturday at 1:00! Please come if you can. Either way make sure you are working with your mentees because we are almost out of time!

If you haven't sent me your artist statement yet, please do! I am going to start posting them on the official blog in the next few days.

If you haven't sent me your mentee's statement yet, please do that too!

Please make sure you are working on your artist packages!

Artist Package

A site with info about what is needed for artist packages

First Workshop

Hi folks! Today we had fun with the workshop and there were awesome treats (Thanks to Alex's wife!) and pizza (Thanks so much, Amanda!) Hopefully those who couldn't come today will be able to come next Saturday or have been able to work with their mentees at other times. I got a few pictures (though they aren't great) so there is some documentation. Please make sure to get an artist statement from your mentees and get those permission slips signed! Thanks to those who have sent and posted their artist statements so far. This week I hope to start putting them on the the official event blog. I was thinking that maybe with the artist statements I should post links to websites or blogs of those that have them and would like the extra bit of promotion that could give. If you want that please let me know what link I should put!

I have managed to put a few posters up at grocery stores in Orem and AF though I haven't had a chance to get all the ones I took put up yet. I hope those who took posters are getting an opportunity to put them up and spread the adverting campaign out!

My mentee and I are having fun working on a short comic book! We are designing characters and then will put together a comic a few pages long. I am very impressed with her work and passion for art! She is already planning to go on to college and do art there so I am really thrilled to work with her!

Hope to see you all on Tuesday and I hope you all have had a good and productive weekend!

couldn't find linda

:(  I waited around at Linda's office on Friday (today) and didn't catch her. I guess she was in and out of meetings all day. I sent her an email, and am hoping to get the card or number for pizza tomorrow. But no promises.

Artist Statement
Amanda Bronson

The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality- Paul Cezanne. I express and define myself through my artwork. My personal tastes, ideas, values, beliefs, and desires are revealed and may therefore become shared via the viewer! The things I value are diverse. Yet connection is everything! Physical connection with the earth, connection with our carnal being, our spiritual desires, connection to others. I am a steward and a protector, I stand for agency and development. As others grow and reach new heights my heart sings. I love service and nurturing all beings. Adventure, discovery, and to live this fascinating life is my desire. There are puzzles, hidden meaning, and endless possibilities to be explored.  What better way to achieve these objectives than through art.  My intuition guides me. Connection with my senses, connection with others. My art work expresses the universal truths that what is is and this world is our play ground. What connects us, we share a world, but this world it is interpreted differently within us all. Does my interpretation resonate with your being. Do you want to cry or sing? Are you touched? Are you alive? What do you see within your eye?

My Artist Statement

pas-sion:

an intense desire or enthusiasm for something

The first feeling of passion I can remember was in Charleston, SC, where I moved to at the age of seven from Roswell, New Mexico. The feeling I had of utter wonder and joy at the abundance of flowers and sweet fragrances Charleston had, has stayed with me throughout my life. The beauty is palpable, and my passion for beauty started there at a very young age.

I was an adult before I realized I had an ability for drawing. Upon entering UVSC in 2006, I started taking watercolor, oil painting & drawing classes, along with figure drawing and painting. Through time and experience, I discovered my love of the vibrance of bold colors. They speak to me and help me speak to all who view my work. I seek to bring a sense of joy to the viewer as putting color down on canvas or paper brings to me. I have also since found a love for sculpting and ceramics, something I hope to perfect in the future.

Announcements

Hi guys!

First of all, this Saturday (March 26th) at 1:00 PM we are planning to meet with mentees at UVU. Please contact your mentees and get them to come to meet at our usual classroom and bring whatever materials you need to work with! Alex is planning to bring some treats! Please try to come to this because we are running out of time! We hope to do this the next couple of Saturdays so we can get this done in a couple of workshop blocks.

Send Larissa your artist statment and a short bio about yourself (or leave it as a comment here) so that she can put together some info about us for the official event blog

When promoting the show, please send people to the official blog for info, don't send them to this blog.

Please contact Danae if you want to do screen printing and she will let you know about what you need to bring for that.

We need to get short bios from mentees and also info on their t-shirt size. we will try to get that on Saturday but if you are meeting at another time please get that info to Larissa and JD ASAP!

Thanks!