Thank you WARP Professors!

Thank you to all the WARP professors, I learned so much from all of you! Thank you  for your patience, advice, and time. I hope to have you all as teachers again ! You are all truly amazing, have a great winter break! I'll see you all in the Spring ! 

Book Fair video !

Miami Book Fair 2016

I'm not sure if my other videos work so I posted a link to it also !! Check it out fun times at the book fair!

Book fair Lecture #2 Keith Knight

The second lecture I went to was They Shoot black people, Don't they? What this lecture was about, a cartoonist named Keith Knight. Who showed a slideshow of his cartoons that show brutality and injustices towards black people. He basically shows 20 years or more of police brutality and racial injustice in the US. A few of the comics he showed had a bow up doll Wilbur, he would put five black people on the road and it would be considered a gang but if they were holding the blowup Wilbur doll it was like they were with a coach or something.

He really hits you hard with his comics and makes you think. He talked about how white people get uncomfortable talking about race and within 6 seconds change the subject and he says how we need to end this and we need to face the awkwardness, and I agree. We are getting nowhere pretending like nothing is wrong if you got something to say or ask I think you should. We have to learn from our past and our mistakes to fix our future. I think he does an excellent job through his comics showing the tragicomedy he talks about something so serious but then he puts it in a funny way. It really makes me think how I could do that with my art. How to make something so terrible and make it funny and both make you laugh and think at the same time.

Book Fair Lecture #1 Tom Hart

      The first lecture I went to was the Child's eye view, the panel consisted of three authors, Meags Fitzgerald who wrote Long red hair, which basically is her life story about her being a lesbian. It was how she differed from her friends. What I found most interesting was that she didn't tell her whole family only her immediate family not her extended family that she was a lesbian. She used her book as a way to come out to the world. She also talked about how it was her fist comic actually using panels, I found his interesting because I don't think comics need to be framed in a panels to tell a story. She also only used two speech bubbles in her entire book, which to me showed that you don't need characters always talking to get the message of the story across.

       Another author on the panel was Emil Ferris. who wrote the book My favorite thing is monsters , what is like about this comic is that she is writing from a little girls point of view she also used a lot of horror movie things she saw in her graphic novel. The last author in the panel was Tom Hart who wrote Rosalie Lightening: A Graphic Memoir. He talked a lot about how he was inspired by Peanuts comics and always did very funny comics. But after his daughter died he decided to do a serious graphic memoir of her life. What I took from this was you can be a very uplifting person but if you have love or passion for something you will show it and describe it and write about it to tell the world how you feel.

Visionary Metropolis: Tony Garnier's Une Cité Industrielle - Museum visit

        Tony Garniers exhibit Visionary Metropolis was very interesting. I really enjoy how much he and Parker have in common;  the other artist we went to look at. They both explore the relationship between ubranism and ecology. Like Parker, Garnier's plans were to foster both social and environmental harmony, which I really respect.
        The exhibit consisted some of his drawings he did titled Une Cite Industrielle. His drawings were pretty much plans for an ideal city in the center of France. He demonstrates his ideas about rational design could reduce the destructiveness of the industrial development. I think his attempts to re-imagine the modern city is amazing.
        Another thing I really liked about his plans was his Health and Recreation facilities, every component of the Cite Industrielle was to promote public health. He emphasized the importance of physical fitness even by putting sports and recreational facilities in monumental buildings close to the city center.You can tell he put a lot of thought and time and care into all of this, and can see he would really cared about the well being of all the people living there. I really enjoyed this exhibit and actually went back to see it again!!

The Discipline of Nature: Architect Alfred Browning Parker - Museum Visit

Going to the HistoryMiami Museum was very fun! I got there before it opened so I was the first one in so I had the whole place to myself! I went to the exhibit we were required to see and was amazed. Alfred Browning Parker the artist of the exhibit has so much pieces in there. I learned that he not only as an architect but an artist, sculptor, author, and furniture maker! It was great to look at all the different types of art he made from his drawings, models, photos, and even furnishing! The art really evolves which is really cool to see. 

Some of his paintings were in a very similar style to what I have done so I was very drawn into his work. I like how much respect Parker has for the earth and its resources his work is both moral and asetically beautiful. He was one of the first to shape the evolving of the suburban and urban landscapes in Florida. 

It is very upsetting that he is not well known now a days, I think his work was very important especially because he actually cares about the earth. Its also a disgrace that his only remaining buildings are threatened to be destroyed. We need more people like Parker who make art and help the earth at the same time.

After looking at the Parker exhibit Holli and I won tickets to the Miami Heat game because we were the only ones there and all we had to do was post a picture of the museum and tag it somewhere! So that was pretty cool! So not only did we win free tickets, we got to learn about an artist that we would have never known who grew up in Miami! I fell in love with all his work and would love to go back and look at it all again! 

Beatriz Santiago Muñoz: A Universe of Fragile Mirrors - Outside Museum Visit

This exhibit shows a selection of work by the filmmaker Beatriz Santiago Munoz. It showed her new work Marche salomon from 2015. She documents specific people and communities and other public sites to show the story about the popular Haitian market, even a toxic flower, and newly found places in Puerto Rico. 

I like that She uses regular people in her videos, it makes it more real. You can tell how much time and effort and commitment she has and she that puts into documenting. I really admire her engagement with the people she must have to be recording them. She moves very slowly through social and physical landscapes to make sure she captures every detail. I really enjoyed her exhibit makes you really think about more then what we see. 

 pictures are from other exhibits at the PAMM

Art and Design in the Modern Age exhibit

The Art and Design in the Modern Age exhibit  was very interesting to me. All the art told a story, it showed how people were living at that time and how we still have the things they made just more mass produced and evolved. The pieces in the exhibit varied so much which make every piece more interesting to look at, they had posters, paintings, sculpture, architectural pieces, like chairs and lamps ad so much more!
All the art there shows how the artists responded to the social and technological changes from the Industrial Revolution, without all their ideas we would not have a lot of what we have today. All the works revealed how people living in this period viewed the world and how they saw their place in it. What I really enjoyed about this exhibit is it wasn't just paintings or what people normally would call "art" it has innovations and things people needed back then to make their life more livable and simpler.

ICA Response

      Susan Te Kahurangi King's artwork is very inspirational to me. After reading her story and looking through her exhibit  and learning that she is severely autistic, I was amazed. Her art makes you want to just stop and stare, and get lost in her piece to figure out what could have been going through her head while she was making these. I like how in her art, she uses such vibrant colors. Color always attracts me and she knows how to use them very well.

      Ida Applebroog's art really speaks to me, I love how she makes art on how she feels about the role mass media plays in desensitizing the public to inequity. I also make art like this but instead of gender, sexual identity, or politics, I do animal rights. In her art and my art we both try to get people to see the ugly truth that the media and big corporations try to hide.





Edited 9/7/16

WARP First Post

Labels Help You Organize

All blog posts must be labeled with two keywords, which blogger calls Labels. When faculty visits your blog for evaluation purposes, we will use the labels to quickly find your work. If you do not use the keywords properly, we will not be able to find your work. Proper set-up and maintenance of your blog falls under the Research and Participation part of your grade which counts for 30% of the overall semester grade. 

Topical Keywords

The first set of keywords correspond to the module we are working in. We will refer to these as topical keywords since they correspond to the topic we are exploring over the two-week periods. Your first group of posts will be labeled under Topic: Creative Impulse since this is the first topic (Topic #1). Here are the topical keywords you will use through out the semester:

Topic: Creative Impulse

Topic: Pattern and Ornament

Topic: Rhinoceros

Topic: Narrative

Topic: Landscape

Topic: Zine

Categorical Keywords

The second set of keywords will organize your posts according to kind. Here are the Keywords you will use for Labels:

Exercises - tag for posts documenting all assigned exercises. The first one will be the paper folding exercise from the first class. 

Readings - tag for posts containing your two paragraph responses to the assigned readings. The first ones will be for "The White Bird" and the Jerry Saltz article from Vulture.com. 

Small Works - tag for posts documenting all assigned small works. The first blog post labeled Small Works will contain images and accompanying descriptions of the three small works you complete for the Creative Impulse Module (Topic #1). 

In-Depth Projects - tag for posts documenting all assigned In-Depth projects. The first blog post labeled In-Depth Projects will contain images (or video if appropriate) and accompanying descriptions of the more robust work you produce in response to the Creative Impulse Module (Topic #1).

Outside Visits - tag for posts containing your two paragraph responses to all required visits outside of the classroom. These include visits we do together as a class [during class time] or individually outside of class time. 

Please be sure to use both a topical and categorical keyword when labeling your posts.