Blog 23 :Final Lesson Refelction

1. I am most proud of my activity I got help from La Russa and I got great feed back because it was creative, informative and fun. It took a long time to get this activity done and it was frustrating because I wasn't sure if people would want to get dirty and work with it.

2.What would I give myself:
a)I  would give myself a P

b)Overall I would give myself an AE.

3. In my senior project I got to explore something that I enjoy doing, I feel like this helped me really open my eyes to what I want to do in my future, and it allowed me to get back into the things I forgot I enjoyed.

4.If I had a time machine I would redo some part of my senior project I would defiantly take better notes in the beginning I thought I was a great note taker but as I started looking back I realized that some of my notes were not helpful.

5. The senior project has helped me realize what things I want to continue on in my life, art is my passion and I know that as long as I have time I will continue doing it because it relaxes and makes me happy. I got to realize that even though fashion is also a big part of my life I would want to keep it as a hobby at the moment instead of pursing it as a career, this might change but this is my opinion at the moment and it could change in the future.

Blog 22: Mentorship

Literal:
Link to hours
Graciela Nardi (Latino Art Museum)

Marisol Bradford (Fashion Mentor)

Interpretive:
Besides getting to know more about art as I was working with Graciela, I got to experience other cultures. I got to travel around the world without leaving the museum, since there were artists from all over the world I got to learn a bit about them and see what kind of work was popular from where they were from. It was really opened my perspective to what was going around the world and how artists where doing to help the situations. I also got to learn what it means to be an artist. I got the opportunity to talk to many artists during these past months, more than I have ever been exposed to, and I got to learn about their struggles and what brought them to were they where now. All the artists that truly had wonderful pieces had to give up a few things to be as talented as they are now. I got to learn that passion is not given but a thing that arises when you are doing something you love.

With Marisol, she showed me a lot of the fashion world that I didn't know. She showed me how fashion isn't just limited to clothes but how you can branch out and use your knowledge of clothes to help you in other aspects of other jobs.

Applied:
As I stated in my answer one to my essential question self expression is a big part of the arts, through my mentorship I got to see many forms of self expression. The best ones where done with a great deal of passion and others not as much. I liked that I also got to hear the reasoning behind some of the pieces. Marisol packed a lot of information during the few sessions we had,  she told me about my figure drawing class and how drawing the figure was an important art skill that all artists should be good at. She also explained to me how the fashion industry works and how it is more than clothes, she gave me many resources which I could use in my searching. She helped me narrow down and steering me in the right direction when I felt lost.

Exit Interview

1.) What most justifies fashion as an art ?
1st answer: Self expression is an important part of art, fashion allows us to express our self in many ways.
2nd answer: Fashion revolves around humanity,which includes the many cultures, social classes,and even technological advances.
3rd answer: An artist must know how to showcase their work to reach different audiences, and fashion is no exception.
My best answer is, self expression is an important part of art, fashion allows us to express our self in many ways.

2.) I came to this answer because it is the one that I believe most represents any kind of art. By any kind of art I include music, painting, fashion, and even dance.You can't have an interesting piece  without the artist trying to express something through their work. The reason any kind of art is well known is because the artist did an excellent task at capturing an incredible feeling and making it into something visual and three dimensional.

3.) There were many problems, starting with picking a topic. I resolved that by mixing two of my favorite things and creating a problem out of it. I also had a tough job finding a mentor for this topic. There are no people that are dedicated and have studies fashion as an art. Just the question itself is a very controversial. I got to find an art mentor Graciela Nardi easily but a fashion mentor was hard to find since any internship I applied to I got no call backs or the people I had as contacts were busy all the time. I finally got a hold of Marisol Bradford, and meet with her a couple of times. I also had a hard time on finding three answers that I could back up. I solved this by focusing on some aspects of art and finding the ones that had the most information.

4.) The first source would be my mentors since they are both very experienced in their jobs and had a lot of background to help me out when I was stuck. They gave me new ideas that allowed me to expand my research.  My second source would be Fashion and Art a book that ,even if it was one of the last ones I read really helped me wrap up my ideas but also open my mind to new ideas in which I could have used as my answers.