The Calla Lilly Art Endeavors

Sculpture I Final Project

For Sculpture I, we were assigned to create a life size sculpture of ourselves with chicken wire and then were to cover it and create ourselves with any desired medium. I have been through serious family issues pertaining to life long illnesses and cancer. I chose to wrap myself in fabrics from home, and to hold myself together with buttons because of the meaning it has to me both as a young woman pursuing a career and her own life, a granddaughter, daughter, sister, aunt, girlfriend and as a human being. Humans are very fragile and it can take one illness or accident to make us fall a part. I chose the fabric and buttons because they are also fragile and can come unwrapped with the littlest mistake or happenstance.

Misc. Paintings in Progress and Printmaking Projects

The paintings I have from Painting I are still in progress. I decided to expand upon the work I have completed in the class because I don't feel that art is ever complete. It is constantly changing and evolving as time passes and I think that it is an artist's right to continue to expand and edit a piece of work should they feel compelled to do so. As with the painting below, my father is collaborating my work and his to create a custom frame. An old frame is being used as an outside border, and an inner border of wine corks is being created to frame the actual painting. The painting was created using oil paints.

Misc. Ceramics Projects

Architecture Wall Art

I made this piece in Metals and Jewelry Making. I enjoyed this class a great deal because of the patience it takes to create even the smallest piece. I created this piece using a process that allowed me to etch pictures and a quote about architecture on pieces of metal. After the pictures and quote were etched by acid onto the metal, I cut the metal with a jewler's saw to create the edges. I used bolts to attatch the metal to eachother in order to tie the entire theme together. I won an award with this piece at an art showing last spring.

Ceramic Pitchers

This semester I took Ceramics II in which we learned to throw on the wheel. It was not required for graduation in the Art Education department, but I felt that it was important to take because ceramics can be either a sculptural or functional art. I am very interested in ceramics and hope to continue to create works in this medium after college. I enjoy ceramics because there is a mixture of functionality and creativity. I think that it is important for students to learn the basics of all mediums, and that is why I chose to take this course. The wheel can be challenging when you are first learning to throw, and continues to be difficult even after you have developed a skill at it. However, this is the basis of this type of art and so I wanted to be able to learn in order to teach my future students. The pitchers and bowls (in post about "Bowls with Spoon Rests") displayed are just a few of the pieces that I created through the course of this semester. The other pieces are currently in a glaze firing, and will be posted soon.