Wk 15 – Art Experience – Remix is the Art of Your Time!

On the Internet, there’s a lot of freedom in doing pretty much anything. There’s not a lot of fear because most people are using images and audio without monetary benefits. You can feel empowered because you’re making something that can be considered better than the original. A risk is that you have a chance of […]

Wk 14 – Art Experience – The Street is a great place for Art

My experience was okay at the very least. I think it would have been better if the pandemic didn’t happen and I could actually go somewhere to do the actual graffiti art. I had very limited art supplies. All I had was highlighters and pens. I’m not at my home, so I don’t have access […]

Wk 13 – Art Experience – Art can be Sustainable?

My idea was to make a cute little person. The materials I chose were various cardboard packaging. I just used the food packaging that I had since I usually eat from these brands. I think I was able to express my idea from my piece. There are key facial features such as eyes, nose, and […]

Wk 12 – Art Experience – The Internet is an Art Gallery

I’m going to be using the game Animal Crossing: New Horizons for my art gallery. The organizing principles of my art gallery are creativity and beauty. Those were also the ideas that I was trying to explore. I picked the 3 artists I will be presenting because their work really caught my eye, and I […]

Wk 11 – Art Experience – Being Yourself can be Art

My goal with my video was to just tell people about what I usually do on my days during the shelter in place. I think I accomplished my goal because I had multiple clips of me doing the activities I do on a daily basis now. Next time, I would remember to film in landscape […]

Wk 10 – Artist Conversation – Mahsa Soroudi

Artist: Mahsa SoroudiExhibition: Nature’s CadenceMedia: PlantsGallery: N/AWebsite: mahsasoroudi.com/plant-showInstagram: N/A Mahsa Soroudi was born in the huge metropolitan city of Tehran, Iran in 1981 to her parents who were interested in different forms of art. Her dad was a painter with his very own painting academy. Soroudi always had a connection with art because of her parents. Her childhood […]

Wk 10 – Art Experience – Art is a good way to Talk to Your Brain!

I didn’t have anyone to do this art activity with because of the coronavirus quarantine, so it was hard to take a picture of me doing the project, but I did do it with two hands on the highlighters. I used a pink and purple highlighter to this activity because those were the only colourful […]

Wk 8 – Art Experience – Your Realism is getting in the way of my Romanticism!

Why do you look at me in that wayIt’s like you just saw me todayYou ask me if I’m okayI say that I’m fine, just thinkingYour face turned awayIt feels like I’m sinking In another world, you would have dug furtherMy days wouldn’t be blueMy heart wouldn’t feel murderedIf I was her, I would be […]

Wk 8 – Artist Conversation – Sophia Grecco

Artist: Sophia GreccoExhibition: Lucky Places for a GraveMedia: Illustration, WatercolourGallery: CSULB School of Art, Dr. Maxine Merlino GalleryWebsite: Sijgrecco.wixsite.comInstagram: Sogriart Sophia Grecco is currently attending California State University Long Beach and is in her last year. She’s working on her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree in the School of Art’s Illustration program. Sophia decided to pursue her major because she […]

Wk 7 – Art Experience – We Need to Talk About Beauty

I rarely ever wear make up, so for this activity, I decided to change it up and wear some. I don’t know how to do make up, so I asked my friend, Stephanie, to help me out. I arrived at her place early before we went to eat lunch. She quickly did a simple look […]