Type of Submission
Podium Presentation
Keywords
Artist Talk, Art, Relationships, History, Culture, Creative
Proposal
This will be an Artist Talk, a practice common for full-time artists. I hope to share my personal artist practice and share with others how I have used quilting, ceramics, and painting to explore many facets of life. As an artist, I’m interested in what happens when objects are taken out of a familiar context and reimagined, in objects as containers for memories of relationships, history, and culture. I explore this by uniting found and made objects, painting onto family quilts, and finishing ceramics by weaving personal materials throughout. I do this across all mediums, repeating patterns reminiscent of my past, curving lines, floral imagery, cursive handwriting, things we all once shared. I memorialize seemingly trivial things by giving them a permanent armor or resting place. This results in a blend of functional and sculptural ceramics. My family and history have been consistent themes throughout my undergraduate career. I have worked to better know my family members by creating pieces with their input, imagery of our lives together, and our shared experiences. A sense of home and community is often created through warm colors, organic shapes, weaving, braiding, and visual hierarchy. These help me to convey the idea of being in relationship with others, or family.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Publication Date
2024
Fibers of Memory: Exploring Culture, Relationships, and History Through Art
This will be an Artist Talk, a practice common for full-time artists. I hope to share my personal artist practice and share with others how I have used quilting, ceramics, and painting to explore many facets of life. As an artist, I’m interested in what happens when objects are taken out of a familiar context and reimagined, in objects as containers for memories of relationships, history, and culture. I explore this by uniting found and made objects, painting onto family quilts, and finishing ceramics by weaving personal materials throughout. I do this across all mediums, repeating patterns reminiscent of my past, curving lines, floral imagery, cursive handwriting, things we all once shared. I memorialize seemingly trivial things by giving them a permanent armor or resting place. This results in a blend of functional and sculptural ceramics. My family and history have been consistent themes throughout my undergraduate career. I have worked to better know my family members by creating pieces with their input, imagery of our lives together, and our shared experiences. A sense of home and community is often created through warm colors, organic shapes, weaving, braiding, and visual hierarchy. These help me to convey the idea of being in relationship with others, or family.
