Tag Archives: art

Mocking a Mockingbird

This project is for the Soundtopia course I am taking. In this course we were supposed to recreate the pitches of any song we wanted as long as it meant something to us whether it was utopic (happy) or dystopic (sad). I chose the song Mockingbird by Eminem because it made me feel dystopic and [...]

View from The Mountain Top

This post is going to be interesting. Its for a new course I am taking called Soundtopia and the first project we had to complete for this class was to create a soundscape using our voice and by collecting sound that we can produce and this soundscape had to tell a memory of ours that [...]

Garden Plan BKJ

This project is for my food redux course. The purpose of this project was to make a plan for a garden because GCE is planning to plant a garden. In this project, I learned a lot about different plants and the way they grow. Also, I learned the amount of sun and water they need. You [...]

The Life Of A Flank Steak

This is a project for my Food For Thought class. The purpose of this project was to write an autobiography in the first person as if we where an ingredient. In this project I learned a lot about my ingredient which was the meat from a Cuban dish (ropa vieja) also known as flank steak [...]

DLs Artist Statement

In my textile class I made a sculpture called a Creeper head. I did it because I had to make something relating to a story that we made. What I learned was that its hard to make a head in your own image. I created it by making blue prints and making a box so [...]

Plastic Bags To Sleeping Mats, What?

This blog post is on a project I have completed (and continuing) for the Hurricane season course, where I was to create a sleeping mat from upcycling plastic grocery bags. The purpose of this project is to take an action against an unnatural disaster and mine is misuse and non-reuse of reusable objects and sources. I am proud [...]

My shoes

    For my Textiles class, we created a presentation on a particular textile that was important to us. I learned where the textile came from and how it was made.   My shoes

Am I An Artiest Yet? LF

LF Title: OM Method: Screen-printing on cotton       For my Unit 2 ‘Textiles’ class, our project was the creation of our own textile, exhibiting a deep personal meaning and story. The story behind the pattern that I chose to replicate has a great and special significance with me: When I was traveling around [...]

LF-Memory

For our Who Am I? course, our assignment for Unit 2 was to recall a memory from our past and create a 800 word paper, describing the memory in full detail. The memory had to have metaphors and descriptive words, in order to capture the attention of the reader. During the process of recollecting my memory, I was proud [...]

Civic Engagement Journal

In our Civic Engagement unit this year we worked on applying a certain value of GCE to create short films. Each film is very different from the others and displays one of the four values; Accountability, Autonomy, Purpose, or Gratitude. In our film we took two plastic figurines and made them come to life in [...]