What is the relationship between your experiences and ongoing artistic work to your curriculum and teaching.
The easiest answer to this question would be that my experiences influence my artwork and my teaching. But that's obviously the case for everyone. However, that also means that I am going through current experiences right now that are affecting how I make art and teach. What are they? Well the first thing that comes to mind is the term exploration. As an Art Ed student you are pushed to try all sorts of mediums and techniques to be a proficient and well-versed teacher. So whatever I am experimenting with tends to be what I want my students to explore and try as well. I love trying new things in art because I feel like it goes back to Dan Barney's favorite phrase: art asks what is possible. So, simply put, trying new things in art helps me explore not only what is possible in art, but also for me as an artist.
How do you describe what you do as an artist.
Mostly what I do as an artist is get inspired by something then make something. Maybe its a color or form that I encounter in my daily routine. After the inspiration comes the exploration. I want to explore ways of representing this idea or thing so that it can either take deeper hold upon me or find a way out. Either way, making art is about finding a resolution. Most of my art tends to be very aesthetic and about the process and then I feel pressured to come up with a deeper meaning to fit into the contemporary art world. It's weird because I love conceptual artwork but I don't care for making it so much myself and I usually am lousy at it when I try. Or maybe my work actually is conceptual but I just don't know what the concepts are. Who knows.
Mostly what I do as an artist is get inspired by something then make something. Maybe its a color or form that I encounter in my daily routine. After the inspiration comes the exploration. I want to explore ways of representing this idea or thing so that it can either take deeper hold upon me or find a way out. Either way, making art is about finding a resolution. Most of my art tends to be very aesthetic and about the process and then I feel pressured to come up with a deeper meaning to fit into the contemporary art world. It's weird because I love conceptual artwork but I don't care for making it so much myself and I usually am lousy at it when I try. Or maybe my work actually is conceptual but I just don't know what the concepts are. Who knows.
