#hmed2016

[socialjusticeshawn]

Become Someone Else for #TheArtAssignment

[klstevens14]

Find Your Band.... Because my life revolves around the consumption of coffee, I think the whir and spurts and hum of the Keurig machine encompasses my band. It is the music that greets me in the morning and inspires me in the middle of the night. It is the sound of a toxic level of caffeine running through my veins.

[zehenspitzen]

Movement Telephone_the art assignment I tried to capture the movements of the parts of a wooden mechanical clock. This is the third video I recorded The original video is here https://youtu.be/QJ_tt9Cdxh4

[klstevens14]

Make A Thing: Pokémon Go Away! The Pokémon craze that swept the nation over the summer represents the terrifying speed with which the digital world can infect the *gasp* real world. I prefer the digital world to stay out of my real world. Please. Everywhere I went there was no escaping the Pokémon or Pokéstops or Pokéballs. This collage represents that incessant bombardment of digital creatures in every aspect of life in the real world. Every corner. Every nook and cranny. Literally everywhere. Please just get the Poké out of my way.

[klstevens14]

Become Someone Else Kathleen: Goth Edition For Halloween this year my friends decided to dress in as much black as possible. As pale-skinned and fair-haired as I am (not to mention my incredibly girly sense of style) it is safe to say I don't own a lot of black. I'm more inclined toward pastels, flowers, and glitter. While I was initially hesitant about going out in public like this, as soon as I embraced the look completely I discovered the thrill of becoming someone I am not. I was unrecognizable. I was fearless. I could take on the world. For just one night. ◾️💀▪️

[klstevens14]

This is what adulting looks like. For my embarrassing object, I chose to spotlight my current supply of fruit snacks. As a 21 year old "adult" I am quite embarrassed by my affinity for the artificially-sweetened children's snacks that I buy in bulk at Costco. My lack of a sophisticated palate is shameful. Do not take me to a five star restaurant because I will just order the chicken tenders (which is the fancier word for "nuggets"). Some fruit snacks were consumed in the making of this post.

[michsandler-blog]

For this week’s Art Assignment, I followed the instruction of “Embarrassing Object.” The premise of this activity is to create something “that makes you feel comfortable.” What I have chosen to depict is not a tangible object, but the wave of embarrassment that overcomes me any time I am called to read aloud. Reading out aloud has always embarrassed me. I never would raise my hand and when I was called on my heart would race and my face would grow more and more red. I am not illiterate, I am not stupid -- my piece will tell it all -- I can... 

There might be a certain irony that the books stacked behind my statement are about reading intervention, but each one has helped me understand that DYSLEXIA is nothing to be embarrassed about. I am in fine company - a quick internet search will tell you WHO. 

[michsandler-blog]

For this week’s Art Assignment, I followed the instruction of the “Fake Flyer.” The aim of the assignment was to make a flyer that gives advice, shares something about one’s life, or promotes an imaginary event and then to place this flyer somewhere in the world. 

When watching the video from this Art Assignment, I found the tongue in cheek flyers and art work by Nathaniel Russell humorous. Immediately the phrase “[t]hings have a way of always working out” came to mind. It is one idiom that annoys me because people say it to simply say something. In my attempt to be cynical and elicit a response to how this message makes me feel, I changed the word “always” to “never,” emphasizing a contrary message. Around this reverse phrase I made a poster that scoffs at flippant advice while promoting an outlandish event- pyschobabbling with strangers for hours. 

I stuck my flyer on top of and in the middle of the other flyers to make sure that it was front and center. In this way all eyes would focus on it and its facetious message that I feel is relevant in the world in which we live. Psychobabble is my metaphor for the phrase “[t]hings have a way of always working out.” This phrase has a lot of hot air and masks the reality that while everyone expects things to always work out, we need to make time in our lives for when things do not work out the way we want. Hopefully this flyer will bring a smile to someone, the same way Russell’s flyers did for me.