The course is designed to introduce students to sources of artist’s writings and general research tools for the collection of ideas and images toward their final Senior Presentations. Students will receive feedback about writing art making, and teaching techniques. The course will present and examine contemporary critical issues, concepts and language with a view towards aiding the student to understand and define their own role as a working artist in the contemporary art arena.
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
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Artist Statement All forms of connections in human relationships intrigue me. Through a variety of materials and mediums I create clean and minimal works of art, which are based in research and process. Through the exploration of psychology and language, written and read, I develop pieces that are participatory, collaborative, and interactive. During my exploration of this type of work, I have been attempting to push my own boundaries and explore those of relational aesthetics. In structuring works that include participation, I work with other people as an opportunity to explore both control and happenstance. The specific design for each piece depends on the desired overall effect and conceptual meaning. While investigating relational aesthetics, I will stay focused on research and process with a specific emphasis on the divergent options that the interactive circumstances can hold.
Biography Regina Lamberti is a mixed media artist and art educator who enjoys working in the style of relational aesthetics and participation. Lamberti is currently a senior at Moore College of Art and Design. While at Moore in April 2011, Lamberti received the John and Chara Haas scholarship. She will be graduating in May 2013 with a BFA in Art Education that has a focus of 3D Design. Lamberti has just been accepted to Moore College of Art and Design’s Graduate program for an MA in Art Education with an emphasis in Special Populations. She plans to receive her MA in August 2014. Lamberti has taught at Greenfield Elementary, the Asian Arts Initiative, and through Moore’s Young Artists Workshop program. She is currently student teaching at Mariana Bracetti Academy Charter School. Lamberti’s upcoming exhibitions are the Art of Student Teaching Show, which will run from March 20th until April 13th, and the Senior Show, which will run from April 24th until May 18th.
Artist Statement I was born with a need to tell stories. Narratives from my past, or from history inspire me. Living Bucks County, surrounded by history, and watching it change from farmlands to shopping malls, I am moved to create work that reminds people of the history surrounding them and that improves the spaces people inhabit every day. While I use a wide variety of materials, my method of selecting them is usually the same; I seek out that which will best express the narrative I am trying to share. Materials themselves have their own histories and connotations, which can either enhance or detract from a piece. My work is also heavily research based, and I find that the richer the history I can find about a person, place or event, the more I am inspired to create. I am now exploring the world of narrative public sculpture. In my past work, I have explored suburban life, my relationship between my own life and history, education, and public spaces. These things have come together to form my interest in public sculpture. I want to expand my conversation to the public, in places that have a strong history, and which could improve in the future. As an artist, involved citizen, employee of the parks department, and art educator, I see the importance of public art and know how it can change a space for the better.
Bio Andrea Thompson is a mixed media artist who has worked in everything from bronze to bookmaking, from textiles to welded steel. She creates works inspired by personal and historical narratives. Her interest in these themes are inspired by researching personal genealogy and learning local history through work at the Department of Parks and Recreation in Warminster Township. She was born and raised in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. She received her Associates of Fine Arts from Bucks County Community College in 2011, and served as the Bucks County Community College Sculpture Club President. The college purchased a kinetic steel sculpture, now on display at the Upper Bucks campus. After graduation, she received the Echo Lake Scholarship and was invited to participate in the Echo Lake Sculpture Conference. She served as a judge for the Celebrating Creativity Philadelphia Youth in Arts Exhibition in 2011 while attending Moore College of Art and Design and received her Bachelors of Art Education with a concentration in sculpture in 2013.
Artist Statement In my work, and similar to my view of nature, the structure of every living being is fragile. I attempt to explore the fragility of human cognitive evolution in my work through various small and large-scale installations whose forms are in a constant state of physical tension. I believe that the potential of change in natural structures and in my own work is limitless, and it is my process which grants me the ability to experience this constant structural change that each piece undergoes. As physically and cognitively complex beings, we are being infinitely touched by the fragile makeup of everything and everyone else, whose own fragility in return is being reformulated and influenced by our own. This idea is directly explored first through the creating process that I have chosen. As a result, a complex and delicate structure is born, whose often unidentifiable characteristics become a metaphor for the delicate, infinitely-changing human being. As I create these pieces, my work and I are granted the freedom to influence one another endlessly.
Bio Kashma Jamal was born in Northern Iraq where she spent most of her childhood prior to her immigration to the United States where she currently resides. She is an installation artist and student art educator who is currently completing her BFA at Moore College of Art & Design in Center City Philadelphia with a major in Art Education and an emphasis in 3D Fine Arts. Jamal’s work has become most known for the minimalist style in which she explores the complexities of the human mind through the use of fragile materials such as pins and thread, and a process that is uniquely meaningful to the concepts which drive her work.
Since her graduation from Central Dauphin high school in 2009, Jamal’s work has been exhibited in three student shows at Moore College of Art & Design. She was awarded the Lansky Smithson Scholarship by a high school sponsor for her dedication to the arts in 2009. In addition, Jamal was awarded the Dean’s Scholarship in 2009 by Moore College of Art & Design.
In 2013, Jamal began and is currently completing her student teaching internship with Dan Deslaurier at The Friends Select School in Center City Philadelphia. Her teaching philosophy focuses on equipping the next generation of young students with the tools which will allow them to meet their own needs for a quality education.
I am constantly searching for new and interesting materials that I can rip, tear, stain and glue. This strange urge to take smaller pieces of things to make a larger expression has brought me to my love of collage. Collage means to me a depiction of fragments in the world. It is rejecting the idea that scraps of paper are just trash and bringing a sense of togetherness. The elements of the world can be brought together into one new reality; no matter how different things seem I feel as though they are connected nonetheless. I am using an abstract collage technique by taking handwriting samples, scraps, found objects and staining techniques. I want to take a familiar way of mark making that everyone recognizes (handwriting) and put it into an unfamiliar place, on a canvas. I believe that handwriting helps define who a person is because it is very personal and unique. On a scientific stance, graphology (handwriting analysis) can tell you a lot about someone on a personal level. Using someone’s handwriting in a piece of artwork help me relate the mood of the work to the person who influenced me to make it.
Artist Bio Leah Evans, born in Cleveland, Ohio, currently lives and works in Philadelphia, PA. She currently attends Moore College of Art & Design, where she is studying Art Education. Leah works primarily with portraiture, often using herself as a model. She is deeply intrigued by the human figure and enjoys exploring the unique features of each individual body she portrays. Outside of the studio, Leah engages in various intellectual and artistic pursuits. Leah engages her love of performance art through her work at the Annenberg Center for Performing Arts, and has volunteered with Spiral Q Puppet Theater. Leah was a student teacher in Moore’s Young Artist Workshop, working with both the special needs classes and the high school painting course. In the fall of 2013 Leah will complete her student teaching internship, before graduating from Moore College and moving on to life as a full time art teacher.
Artist Statement When I was young, I spent hours sitting in front of a mirror drawing each feature of my body over and over; nose, eyes, ears, fingers, feet. Then, as I hit adolescence, I developed an intense hatred for my own body. I spent years wrestling with issues of body image, until I decided one day that I would find something about myself to love. Every day I would choose one feature to focus on and I would say to myself “today my eyelashes are beautiful.” This became a way of life for me, until I looked for beauty not just in my own reflection, but in the faces and bodies of everyone around me. Without even realizing it I began to look for beauty in the small details of every person I met. My art gives me a medium through which I can explore this ever growing fascination with the human figure. I love to simply study the amazing features that make each body uniquely its own. Scars, moles, birthmarks—all intrigue me. Our bodies show the map of our lives. Each wrinkle is a reflection of the life being lived. Each scar has a story. Through looking at the body, I gain insight into the soul. Through my work I try to give the viewer a hint of the insight I have gained through studying my own body and those of my models.
Born in Newark, Delaware Deanna Daly is a 2D artist who focuses in collage and painting. Daly studied illustration at Delaware college of Art and Design and received her associates in 2010. There, she absorbed illustrative and graphic design techniques, which broadened her spectrum of mediums. She is to receive her BFA from Moore college of Art and Design in the spring of 2013 for Art Education, and Fine Arts with an emphasis in 2D.
Deanna Daly has taught art at Great Taste Design Company, Camp Accomplish, Moore’s Young Artists Workshop program and is currently student teaching at Greenfield School in Philadelphia. Daly’s upcoming exhibitions are the Art of Student Teaching Show, which will run from March 20th until April 13th, and the Senior Show, which will run from April 24th until May 18th.
I will be graduating from Moore College of Art and Design with a bachelors degree in art education. I have had work displayed in the Riverview Estates Fine Arts Festival in 2006 and 2007. In 2002 I won an honorable mention award at the Teen Arts Festival. I will have work displayed in the coming Senior Art Show at Moore. The artwork I make is entirely inspired by nature and I use natural materials to create my work. I often wrestle with the title of environmental art to describe my work, but I do not feel like my work fits into that category. I strive to create interesting landscape designs with a strong surreal or abstract quality. I am currently exploring charcoal as a medium by making my own charcoals with different kinds of wood and drawing with it on different kinds of paper. I make my own charcoals using different kinds of wood than I experiment with them on different papers. I tone the papers with color to create an illusion of atmosphere within the landscape. My drawings have a strong sense of depth and mystery. I want the viewer to be perplexed and intrigued by my work so that they are inclined to read about the piece. The environmental subjects and messages in the work will hopefully help spread the word of environmental protection that I am trying to spread.
Alexandra Waite is a teaching artist born and raised in Delaware Country just southwest of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Waite graduated from Moore College of Art and Design in May 2013 attaining a BFA in Art Education with an emphasis in 3-D Fine Arts. Although she spent much of her junior and senior years in three-dimensional focused courses, Waite’s favorite materials include those used for silkscreen, Styrofoam, and linoleum printing. Her recent exhibition experience includes Community Ties (November 2010), The Art of Student Teaching (March- April 2013), and Moore’s Senior Show (April - May 2013). Alex Waite was also commissioned by the Tiger Woods Foundation to do a drawing for the “We Salute Our Heros” wall at the AT&T National.
During her college years, Alexandra Waite spent time interning and volunteering throughout Philadelphia. Waite worked for The Franklin Institute during summer 2011 as a teaching artist/intern. She was also a photography intern for the March of Dimes, during which she photographed Philadelphia buildings as they celebrated National Premature Awareness Month. In 2012, Waite volunteered with Spiral Q Puppet Theater as a teaching assistant during their residency at Bache-Martin Schools. Most recently, Waite completed her student teaching at Mary C. Howse Elementary School in West Chester Area School District in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Artist Statement – Second Draft
I have never sought to keep my title of “educator” separate from “artist.” Educating students through the arts is my life plan, so why not have studio work that does the same? My most recent focus is to educate society on the personal issues of those suffering from incurable diseases. I think part of feeling self-conscious and embarrassed lies in feeling alone. At this point, I plan to spread my ideas through zines and mass media; and through my work, I can connect different members of my audience who are experiencing similar difficulties. Much like Anthony Muhammad in the quote below, I am an activist and I will “fight.”
“This book is dedicated to every child who has been doubted. To all of the children in housing projects, barrios, cities, and countrysides who feel that life is hopeless, it is not hopeless! If a young man from the north end of Flint, Michigan, can be an educated scholar, the sky is the limit for you. Keep your head held high, and show the world your talent. As long as I have a breath in my body, I will fight for you, but you have to fight for yourself, too. “ -Anthony Muhammad
Regina Lamberti
ReplyDeleteArtist Statement
All forms of connections in human relationships intrigue me. Through a variety of materials and mediums I create clean and minimal works of art, which are based in research and process.
Through the exploration of psychology and language, written and read, I develop pieces that are participatory, collaborative, and interactive. During my exploration of this type of work, I have been attempting to push my own boundaries and explore those of relational aesthetics.
In structuring works that include participation, I work with other people as an opportunity to explore both control and happenstance. The specific design for each piece depends on the desired overall effect and conceptual meaning. While investigating relational aesthetics, I will stay focused on research and process with a specific emphasis on the divergent options that the interactive circumstances can hold.
Biography
Regina Lamberti is a mixed media artist and art educator who enjoys working in the style of relational aesthetics and participation. Lamberti is currently a senior at Moore College of Art and Design. While at Moore in April 2011, Lamberti received the John and Chara Haas scholarship. She will be graduating in May 2013 with a BFA in Art Education that has a focus of 3D Design. Lamberti has just been accepted to Moore College of Art and Design’s Graduate program for an MA in Art Education with an emphasis in Special Populations. She plans to receive her MA in August 2014. Lamberti has taught at Greenfield Elementary, the Asian Arts Initiative, and through Moore’s Young Artists Workshop program. She is currently student teaching at Mariana Bracetti Academy Charter School. Lamberti’s upcoming exhibitions are the Art of Student Teaching Show, which will run from March 20th until April 13th, and the Senior Show, which will run from April 24th until May 18th.
Artist Statement
ReplyDeleteI was born with a need to tell stories. Narratives from my past, or from history inspire me. Living Bucks County, surrounded by history, and watching it change from farmlands to shopping malls, I am moved to create work that reminds people of the history surrounding them and that improves the spaces people inhabit every day.
While I use a wide variety of materials, my method of selecting them is usually the same; I seek out that which will best express the narrative I am trying to share. Materials themselves have their own histories and connotations, which can either enhance or detract from a piece. My work is also heavily research based, and I find that the richer the history I can find about a person, place or event, the more I am inspired to create.
I am now exploring the world of narrative public sculpture. In my past work, I have explored suburban life, my relationship between my own life and history, education, and public spaces. These things have come together to form my interest in public sculpture. I want to expand my conversation to the public, in places that have a strong history, and which could improve in the future. As an artist, involved citizen, employee of the parks department, and art educator, I see the importance of public art and know how it can change a space for the better.
Bio
Andrea Thompson is a mixed media artist who has worked in everything from bronze to bookmaking, from textiles to welded steel. She creates works inspired by personal and historical narratives. Her interest in these themes are inspired by researching personal genealogy and learning local history through work at the Department of Parks and Recreation in Warminster Township.
She was born and raised in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. She received her Associates of Fine Arts from Bucks County Community College in 2011, and served as the Bucks County Community College Sculpture Club President. The college purchased a kinetic steel sculpture, now on display at the Upper Bucks campus. After graduation, she received the Echo Lake Scholarship and was invited to participate in the Echo Lake Sculpture Conference. She served as a judge for the Celebrating Creativity Philadelphia Youth in Arts Exhibition in 2011 while attending Moore College of Art and Design and received her Bachelors of Art Education with a concentration in sculpture in 2013.
Kashma Jamal
ReplyDeleteArtist Statement
In my work, and similar to my view of nature, the structure of every living being is fragile. I attempt to explore the fragility of human cognitive evolution in my work through various small and large-scale installations whose forms are in a constant state of physical tension. I believe that the potential of change in natural structures and in my own work is limitless, and it is my process which grants me the ability to experience this constant structural change that each piece undergoes. As physically and cognitively complex beings, we are being infinitely touched by the fragile makeup of everything and everyone else, whose own fragility in return is being reformulated and influenced by our own. This idea is directly explored first through the creating process that I have chosen. As a result, a complex and delicate structure is born, whose often unidentifiable characteristics become a metaphor for the delicate, infinitely-changing human being. As I create these pieces, my work and I are granted the freedom to influence one another endlessly.
Bio
Kashma Jamal was born in Northern Iraq where she spent most of her childhood prior to her immigration to the United States where she currently resides. She is an installation artist and student art educator who is currently completing her BFA at Moore College of Art & Design in Center City Philadelphia with a major in Art Education and an emphasis in 3D Fine Arts. Jamal’s work has become most known for the minimalist style in which she explores the complexities of the human mind through the use of fragile materials such as pins and thread, and a process that is uniquely meaningful to the concepts which drive her work.
Since her graduation from Central Dauphin high school in 2009, Jamal’s work has been exhibited in three student shows at Moore College of Art & Design. She was awarded the Lansky Smithson Scholarship by a high school sponsor for her dedication to the arts in 2009. In addition, Jamal was awarded the Dean’s Scholarship in 2009 by Moore College of Art & Design.
In 2013, Jamal began and is currently completing her student teaching internship with Dan Deslaurier at The Friends Select School in Center City Philadelphia. Her teaching philosophy focuses on equipping the next generation of young students with the tools which will allow them to meet their own needs for a quality education.
Deanna Daly
ReplyDeleteArtist Statement
I am constantly searching for new and interesting materials that I can rip, tear, stain and glue. This strange urge to take smaller pieces of things to make a larger expression has brought me to my love of collage. Collage means to me a depiction of fragments in the world. It is rejecting the idea that scraps of paper are just trash and bringing a sense of togetherness. The elements of the world can be brought together into one new reality; no matter how different things seem I feel as though they are connected nonetheless.
I am using an abstract collage technique by taking handwriting samples, scraps, found objects and staining techniques. I want to take a familiar way of mark making that everyone recognizes (handwriting) and put it into an unfamiliar place, on a canvas. I believe that handwriting helps define who a person is because it is very personal and unique. On a scientific stance, graphology (handwriting analysis) can tell you a lot about someone on a personal level. Using someone’s handwriting in a piece of artwork help me relate the mood of the work to the person who influenced me to make it.
Artist Bio
ReplyDeleteLeah Evans, born in Cleveland, Ohio, currently lives and works in Philadelphia, PA. She currently attends Moore College of Art & Design, where she is studying Art Education.
Leah works primarily with portraiture, often using herself as a model. She is deeply intrigued by the human figure and enjoys exploring the unique features of each individual body she portrays.
Outside of the studio, Leah engages in various intellectual and artistic pursuits. Leah engages her love of performance art through her work at the Annenberg Center for Performing Arts, and has volunteered with Spiral Q Puppet Theater. Leah was a student teacher in Moore’s Young Artist Workshop, working with both the special needs classes and the high school painting course.
In the fall of 2013 Leah will complete her student teaching internship, before graduating from Moore College and moving on to life as a full time art teacher.
Artist Statement
When I was young, I spent hours sitting in front of a mirror drawing each feature of my body over and over; nose, eyes, ears, fingers, feet. Then, as I hit adolescence, I developed an intense hatred for my own body. I spent years wrestling with issues of body image, until I decided one day that I would find something about myself to love. Every day I would choose one feature to focus on and I would say to myself “today my eyelashes are beautiful.” This became a way of life for me, until I looked for beauty not just in my own reflection, but in the faces and bodies of everyone around me. Without even realizing it I began to look for beauty in the small details of every person I met. My art gives me a medium through which I can explore this ever growing fascination with the human figure. I love to simply study the amazing features that make each body uniquely its own. Scars, moles, birthmarks—all intrigue me. Our bodies show the map of our lives. Each wrinkle is a reflection of the life being lived. Each scar has a story. Through looking at the body, I gain insight into the soul. Through my work I try to give the viewer a hint of the insight I have gained through studying my own body and those of my models.
Deanna Daly
ReplyDeleteBio
Born in Newark, Delaware Deanna Daly is a 2D artist who focuses in collage and painting. Daly studied illustration at Delaware college of Art and Design and received her associates in 2010. There, she absorbed illustrative and graphic design techniques, which broadened her spectrum of mediums. She is to receive her BFA from Moore college of Art and Design in the spring of 2013 for Art Education, and Fine Arts with an emphasis in 2D.
Deanna Daly has taught art at Great Taste Design Company, Camp Accomplish, Moore’s Young Artists Workshop program and is currently student teaching at Greenfield School in Philadelphia.
Daly’s upcoming exhibitions are the Art of Student Teaching Show, which will run from March 20th until April 13th, and the Senior Show, which will run from April 24th until May 18th.
Kimberly Barlieb
ReplyDeleteArtist Statement
I will be graduating from Moore College of Art and Design with a bachelors degree in art education. I have had work displayed in the Riverview Estates Fine Arts Festival in 2006 and 2007. In 2002 I won an honorable mention award at the Teen Arts Festival. I will have work displayed in the coming Senior Art Show at Moore.
The artwork I make is entirely inspired by nature and I use natural materials to create my work. I often wrestle with the title of environmental art to describe my work, but I do not feel like my work fits into that category. I strive to create interesting landscape designs with a strong surreal or abstract quality.
I am currently exploring charcoal as a medium by making my own charcoals with different kinds of wood and drawing with it on different kinds of paper. I make my own charcoals using different kinds of wood than I experiment with them on different papers. I tone the papers with color to create an illusion of atmosphere within the landscape.
My drawings have a strong sense of depth and mystery. I want the viewer to be perplexed and intrigued by my work so that they are inclined to read about the piece. The environmental subjects and messages in the work will hopefully help spread the word of environmental protection that I am trying to spread.
Alexandra Waite
ReplyDeleteBIO
Alexandra Waite is a teaching artist born and raised in Delaware Country just southwest of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Waite graduated from Moore College of Art and Design in May 2013 attaining a BFA in Art Education with an emphasis in 3-D Fine Arts. Although she spent much of her junior and senior years in three-dimensional focused courses, Waite’s favorite materials include those used for silkscreen, Styrofoam, and linoleum printing. Her recent exhibition experience includes Community Ties (November 2010), The Art of Student Teaching (March- April 2013), and Moore’s Senior Show (April - May 2013). Alex Waite was also commissioned by the Tiger Woods Foundation to do a drawing for the “We Salute Our Heros” wall at the AT&T National.
During her college years, Alexandra Waite spent time interning and volunteering throughout Philadelphia. Waite worked for The Franklin Institute during summer 2011 as a teaching artist/intern. She was also a photography intern for the March of Dimes, during which she photographed Philadelphia buildings as they celebrated National Premature Awareness Month. In 2012, Waite volunteered with Spiral Q Puppet Theater as a teaching assistant during their residency at Bache-Martin Schools. Most recently, Waite completed her student teaching at Mary C. Howse Elementary School in West Chester Area School District in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Artist Statement – Second Draft
I have never sought to keep my title of “educator” separate from “artist.” Educating students through the arts is my life plan, so why not have studio work that does the same? My most recent focus is to educate society on the personal issues of those suffering from incurable diseases. I think part of feeling self-conscious and embarrassed lies in feeling alone. At this point, I plan to spread my ideas through zines and mass media; and through my work, I can connect different members of my audience who are experiencing similar difficulties. Much like Anthony Muhammad in the quote below, I am an activist and I will “fight.”
“This book is dedicated to every child who has been doubted. To all of the children in housing projects, barrios, cities, and countrysides who feel that life is hopeless, it is not hopeless! If a young man from the north end of Flint, Michigan, can be an educated scholar, the sky is the limit for you. Keep your head held high, and show the world your talent. As long as I have a breath in my body, I will fight for you, but you have to fight for yourself, too. “
-Anthony Muhammad