Friday, May 31, 2013

Joanna Lopez- Sticker Art- Garden

 
I enjoyed doing this project because it was bringing out a message of nature. The theme was "beautification through art or nature" and I really like nature so I was happy with this sticker art.
It took me a while to think about what my sticker was going to be about, so it didn't turn out to be that creative but I think that I did a pretty good job. It really wasn't that hard of a project to do.
 
 

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Jose Corona-    STICKER ART.


I found this sticker to be pretty cool. I think that it was a fun activity where we learned about nature and had a fun way to express our view on it. My picture shows the forest and kirby. I put the monkey because wild animals are a part of nature and i think they are really important because some of them are going extinct. Kirby is in there because he takes form of elements in nature such as water, fire, and air.
My favorite part of this project was finding the pictures to put in my sticker because when i found kirby i was really excited.


Adan Barragan - Sticker - Replace

 

This was one of my most favorite projects in this class. I really liked this project because it allowed me to be very creative, by setting up a piece of art about such a broad topic such as the environment. And having that topic opened a lot of options for what I was going to create. While thinking about what i was going to do I decided to make it into a type of clean up the world art. That's why I included the junkyard and the nice tree, separated by the word replace. The message is to plant more trees and get rid of garbage.

Sydney Gresham-Sticker Art- "Save the Earth"

             I enjoyed this particular assignment because I was able to use all of the techniques we learned in class throughout the entire school year. I was able to transfer the bar code, collage, and work back into my artwork by drawing. I love the final look of my sticker!

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Diamond Claybon's-Sticker Art-Nature


I really enjoyed making this sticker only because I thought of all the pretty colors I could put into this sticker. I know my sticker stands out and I gave it a little brightness and pictures to make my message clear.

David Reed-Sticker Art-Relaxing

This project was a very open and free thing to do. You could basically choose what you want to work with and what you want to draw. You could also choose what colors to use and how to color it. It was a very fun process because you could basically create your project however you would like it. There were no limits.

David Reed-Hero Trading Card- Nelson Mandela


I enjoyed working on this project very much. I knew from the very beginning on who I would choose as my hero. I knew some basic background information on my hero beforehand, but I learned even more about him as I researched him. The best part of the project had to be the carving. It was a very fun task to handle and i feel that it somewhat looks like him.

STICKER ART - BEAUTIFYING THE NEIGHBORHOOD

Sticker Art is a fun form of Guerrilla Art one can see around the city. Stickers are not permanent, but a fun way to share artwork multiple times throughout the city.  Stickers can be given away (everyone LOVES stickers) to people to use on various belongings. Therefore those people become walking galleries of sticker art.

Our Guerrilla students designed stickers to pass on the message of beauty. Our neighborhood (like most inner city places) has areas of blight; garbage strewn, weed filled abandoned buildings/lots. They strove to create a sticker design that fosters art and nature to combat the ugliness.

The stickers are being given to our local community group, Good Things Grow Midway. The group uses art and gardening to improve the neighborhood. GTGM will give away the stickers throughout the area.

Students are also responsible for giving away one sticker themselves, as a gift of free art.
Enjoy!

HERO TRADING CARDS

Forgive the lateness of this post. It should have been before the scanned artwork.

Hero Trading Cards is a project we have worked on and off since February. It is a big project involving  Research, Discussion, Lino-Cut Printing, Creative Writing, Package Design.  However, we are joyfully wrapping it up!

Students worked as groups to create sets of trading cards that feature social justice heroes. Each student chose a hero who is alive today, creating change for social justice. The students formed groups of six and researched their heroes, sharing them with each other and eliciting discussion about the problems and actions each hero faces.

Each student then designed and carved portraits of their hero onto 4" x 6" linoleum blocks. These were used to print multiple sets of portraits onto thick bristol paper to make the cards. Each group of six had to produce 9 full sets of trading cards.

Students spent a unit learning about envisioning and expression in order to produce creative writing for the back of the trading cards.. We were very lucky to have Polly Mills of Columbia College to help design and teach us a very special workshop about creative writing. Their writing was designed to inform the viewer about the:
1. Bio of Hero
2. Problems Hero is solving and why
3. How the Hero solved the problems.
4. What the Hero wants the world to do to help.

What made their writing interesting is that the student imagined they WERE the hero and wrote their essay in the heroes "voice". So when one reads the back of the trading card, it feels as though the hero is speaking directly to the viewer.

Trading cards were cut and assembled. Students made envelopes to serve as packaging. (images to come soon).
Complete sets of trading cards are given to Social Studies teachers in high schools to use to educate students about today's heroes.  Of course, each student keeps a full set of cards as well.
Please look through the blog and learn about the heroes of our class.

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Diamond Claybon's-Hero Trading Card- Marva Collins



This experience was great.  We had a lot of steps to take to even get this far to even publishing these on our blog.  I feel that I actually learned from my hero.  And she's a very strong woman.  I think she would fight for whatever she believe in.  I believe everyone should take her accomplishment for an example and keep striving for your best no matter how much it take, keep moving forward til you accomplish it.  

Alexis Gutierrez-Hero Trading Card-Michael Moore



This was a totally new experience for, having not much art experience previously. It was fun using the printing press to print the many images from the block that we used to carve the image first, then apply ink to it for usage with the printing press. It is something that I can know add to my artistic arsenal for future use. I actually felt like a true guerrilla artist. 



Hero Trading Card Julian Assasnge


Jesus Zepeda - Hero Trading Card - Mathangi M.I.A. Arulpragasm


I already had some knowledge of M.I.A.'s career as an artist, but it wasn't until i researched her life that i actually got to know Mathangi as a person. Her words are brave and her actions are even more courageous. I learned a lot about M.I.A in this project.

Jaime Robles Trading card


Hero Trading Card-Carol Mosely Braun





Hero Trading Card "Jesse Jackson"


I really enjoyed doing this unit because we learned more about our heroes, and the craving was pretty fun.

Miguel Gonzalez - Trading Card Hero - Richard Lee



As I was working on this trading card, I had a lot of fun because I agree with everything that Richard Lee believes and I was happy that I had a chance to show everyone how I feel about marijuana. I had a lot of fun working on this.

Alejandro Saucedo - Trading Card Hero - Maya Angelou


When i was doing the trading card i felt like I could feel her pain and I could really feel how she felt when she was matching. When I was writing her personal statement I felt like I was there with her and I could feel like her pain. I was really did feel like I was her for the moment and I could change the world and educate people. 

Joanna Lopez-Hero Trading Card- Jody Williams


 
I really enjoyed working in this project, even though I don't have that
            much art experience but I tried my best. I got to say though the carving was really time
            consuming, but at the end it was worth it. I thought my hero was a big role model for
           people who want to stand out and achieve what they want. I really learned a lot about
                                                                       my hero. 
 

Carina Torres - Karen Lewis - Hero

Carina Torres-Karen Lewis-Hero

The way I felt about this project was that I enjoyed it.  The only thing I have to say is that when we got to the part were we had to carve out our hero's face, we had to be really careful and make sure we didn't cut ourselves. The writing part of this project was also fun.  I had to write like I was Karen Lewis.  I already knew information about Karen Lewis, so I only had to search little details. I picked her because I am a CPS student and she fights for us.

Jhonatan Palomar - Hero Trading Card - Don Francisco


                             



Friday, May 24, 2013

Hero Trading Card - Dalai Lama



Francisca Gutierrez - Hero Trading Card - "Earth First!"


I enjoyed working on this project alot. It was a very fun experience and I got to dedicate an artwork to my hero. I learned alot while having fun. It was very difficult to carve at first but once I got the hang of it I really liked it, it was something I have never done before. 

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Hero Trading Card- Peter Joseph




Adan Barragan - Hero Trading Card - Joan Baez

I thought that this was a really fun experience because it was something I had never heard of, seen, or done before. I also enjoyed it because the activity of carving out the image was really fun because the tools we used and the way we used them was very strange and new to me. I also had alot of fun pretending to be the hero I was describing. i liked that part the most because doing the interviews really made me feel like I was the hero, and i find acting as someone else really fun. Overall i thought that this was a really fun and different experience.

Elizabeth Martinez - Hero Trading Card- "Al Gore"



I liked this project because I thought it was fun to carve our hero and ink the linoleum to print our hero on paper used to make the trading cards.

Mario Ochoa - Leonard Peltier



Niya Weathers-Hero Trading Card-Toni Morrison


 When doing the hero project i felt as though it opened my mind to learn about people who are Hero's but aren't really recognized as often as other. It was a chance to learn history of someone who has done something great for either me or my ancestors.

Francisco Ortega - Billy Bragg


Victor Solis- Hero Trading Card- Bill Clinton