Murals, better late than never

Thesis exhibition photos

Souvenirs-version1 by USdrone


These are photos of the work that I put into my thesis exhibition for my MFA in Community Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art. The small booklet is a zine of poems made using a collaborative writing process for my Memory and Power project, made through using word association and personalized definitions. The images on the wall are blow ups made of the individual poems, and two sound pieces made through interviewing students, educators, and facilitators about their experiences and opinions on Bullying. The sound work was played through the locker, which served once again as a natural reverb chamber. The Memory and Power project is as of this writing technically finished, though I think I want to go further with it.

mural works in Cincinnati, but really Northern Kentucky

I am now in Kentucky working with Artworks, on some of their first Northern Kentucky murals. This is something like my sixth summer with art works, my third on teaching staff, but my first as a "Teaching Artist," which means myself and one other crazy artist are in charge of all these rowdy kids. So far it has been great, and our apprentices are learning a lot, though the mural, for its size, is going a little slower than we all initially thought it would. More pictures of this to come as progress is made.

Mural Designs for the Club at Collington Square.

These are for the Club at Collington Square, an after school program for Middle and Elementary school kids in East Baltimore. The prompt for the mural is centered around overcoming violence in the community, and the images here are the result of images created by folks from the Collington Square neighborhood during community art workshops for the mural. I think that bottom one is my favorite.

Old work

Julia Scott, "Classic Pinup"

this drawing I think is at least two years old. I took some creative license with the hair. Also, the Thom Yorke eyes, sorry boo.

Breadbox

Images from a piece that got me started on my current path on artwork about bullying. This piece however is a deconstruction of development of masculinity through popular media during the formative age of middle school, which you'll hear in the presentation of the audio, courtesy of DMX and others.

Whiteness box by USdrone

Blog for Memory and Power: Deconstructing Bullying Through Art.

Memory and Power, which is my project which uses artmaking to address and deconstruct bullying, now has a blog.
Stay tuned to that blog and this one for images from the workshops and the art produced in them.