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.