In 5 years:
1. To have my MFA
2. Travel
3. To have Gallery shows on my resume
4. To have my first Solo Show
5. Sky Dive
6. Explore a Cave
7. To be strong in the Lord
8. Have a teaching job
In 2 years:
1. To be in Graduate School
2. Travel to Europe again
3. Keeping my eyes peeled for opportunities over seas
4. Working a good career oriented job
5. Decide where want to go next
6. Get studio visits
7. Network
8. Get others interested in my work
-Galleries
-Collectors
-Artists
-Companies
9. Have a nice Big GRANT or ART PRIZE!!
10. To be financially independent from my mother, COMPLETELY!!!!!
In 1 year:
1. Be accepted into a Grad School program that I feel good about
-Have teaching assistantship, while in Graduate School
2. Working a good career oriented job
3. Free lance/ Self advertise
4. Have some teaching experience
5. Feel good about where I have chosen to live for a while, where there is a decent job market
6. Join a new church
7. Move far away from Titusville and Sarasota, away from Florida (most likely, depends)
8. Learn German
9. Apply for Grants
In 6 months (September):
1. Have a new body of work done that I feel good about showing
-Make a short film with actors (inspired from Thomas’s dream)
-Find actors
2. Take time off to morn and spend more time with Family
3. Volunteer
4. Go out on a Missionary trip
-Chose a child overseas to sponsor and send money to every month
5. Take more time to be alone with God
6. Road trip to see America
7. Visit Europe
8. Research More Artists and the Kind of work I’m doing
9. Read 5 books
10. Apply to Graduate Schools
11. Applications to Gallery shows, Juried Shows, Jobs, Residencies, Grants
-Decide where to move to, depends on the applications
-Set up for job interviews
-Work with Career Services
- Identify good opportunities (college art association, art deadlines list, art calendar, etc.)
12. Start paying off some loans
-Make money
13. Build up my Resume
-Getting more teaching experience/ assistantship for Precollege
14. Help my mother sell the house
-Garage sales
15. Decide What to do with all Dad’s stuff
-Make a quilt of from all of his blue jeans
-Fix/ take care of truck
16. Organize my life!
-Journals
-Emailing system/ address book
-Make sure I own a Mac Laptop
-My contacts/ networks
17. Have my Website up
18. Update my blog regularly
19. Make new business cards
20. Make Separate Portfolio packets for different Applications
-Illustration/ Design Job Portfolio Packet
-Graduate School Packet/ Fine Arts/ Gallery Packet
-Film/ Digital Media Packet for Gallery or job
21. Watch a ton of movies/ research and learn about the history of film
22. Set up a good system for Self Advertisement
23. Gather recommendations for applications
-Email those who will recommend you, (make sure you give them enough time)
24. Start to learn how to speak German
By graduation:
1.) Finalize 2 new pieces for April 30th the, Fine Art Senior Thesis Show
-Hook up micro servo to the Mikaela Puppet
-Make light fixture for the print/ painting, “Metaphysical Closure, Where is God?”
-Fine details on the installation, “The Closure of Metaphysics and the Opening of Parallel Awes”
2.) Set up my new Sallie Mae Account
3.) Send out Invitations
4.) Graduation Packets
5.) Drop off artwork at the Made-By Gallery, Sarasota
6.) Pack/ Organize studio and house
7.) Financial Aid
8.) Volunteer
9.) Finish writings for Strengths and Differences
10.) Try to set up any possible interviews and turn in portfolio
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
RESUME
Education:
• 2006-2009-Ringling College of Art & Design, Major: Fine Arts, senior, pursuing BFA
• 2006- Space Coast Jr./Sr. High School, Port St. John, Florida, Diploma received, 3.67GPA
Collaborative/ Two Artists Exhibition:
* 2010 -“The Voyage of Infinite Parallels”, Crossley Gallery, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida
* 2008 -“Implacable Creature”, Crossley Gallery, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida
Group Exhibitions:
* 2010 -Senior Fine Art Thesis Show, Crossley Gallery and Smith Gallery, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida
-Best Of Ringling Student Juried Show, Smith Gallery, Sarasota, Florida
-Drag & Drop, Keating 2, Ringling College, Sarasota, Florida
• 2009 -Cosmix II, South Florida Museum & Bishop Planetarium, Bradenton, Florida
-Painting III, Installation Space, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida
-We Off Her Clothes Sure., We Off Her Trans Sentence, New York Independent Studio Exchange Program, Brooklyn, New York
-Best of Ringling Student Juried Show, Crossley Gallery, Sarasota, Florida
• 2008 -Cosmix, South Florida Museum & Bishop Planetarium, Bradenton, Florida
-Realia, Big E’s Coffee House, Sarasota, Florida
-Best of Ringling Student Juried Show, Crossley Gallery, Sarasota, Florida
Awards and Honors:
* 2010 -Materials Award & Faculty Award, Ringling College of Art, Sarasota, Florida
• 2009 -Ringling Trustee Scholar Fine Arts Student Nominee, Sarasota, Florida
-Yale/Norfork Summer Art Program Nominee, Sarasota, Florida
-New York Independent Studio Exchange Program located in Brooklyn, NY
• 2008 -Woman Contemporary Artists Scholarship Award, Sarasota, Florida
-Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award nominee
• 2006 -Grand Prize; 24th District Congressional Art Competition, which includes a trip to Washington D.C. for an award ceremony with other national Congressional art competition recipients, and the displaying of the Artwork in Washington D.C. for a complete year.
-Melbourne Art Festival Scholarship Award, Melbourne, Florida
-Best of Show and Third place (Sculpture) Awards in the same age category; The Henagar Strawbridge Art League Student Juried Art Show, Melbourne, Florida
-First place and second place; Brevard Museum of Art and Science Student Art Competition, Melbourne, Florida
Commissions & Public Art/Volunteer Work of Years 2001 through 2006:
• Murals -Volunteer: Port St. John Public Library, Retirement Home and First Baptist Church of Port St. John, Cocoa, Florida
-Jackson Middle School and Space Coast Jr./Sr. High School, Titusville & Cocoa, Florida
-Businesses: The Pediatrician’s Office and Surf Shop of Port St. John, Cocoa, Florida
-4 Private Homes located in Cocoa and one in Merritt Island, Florida
• Numerous commissions of -Portraiture, Landscape and other paintings and drawings
-Graphic Design: T-Shirts, Business Cards and Logo Designs
-Clay and Wood Sculpture Pieces
-2 Book Covers
Related Experiences:
• Attended the Ringling’s pre-college perspective program in July 2005, receiving the Outstanding Student award in Photography & Digital Imaging and outstanding performance awards in Modular Portrait and 2-D Design, Color and Digital Processes.
• Taught art lessons to children and adults. (2005-2006)
• Assistantship teaching Figure, Painting, Illustration and Drawing for Summer Teen Studios at Ringling College. (Summer 2009)
• Assistantship teaching Pre-College at Ringling College of Art. (Summer 2010)
• Worked for the Selby Gallery located at Ringling College of Art, Sarasota, Florida for 2 ½ years.
• Worked for the Smith Gallery located at Ringling College of Art, Sarasota, Florida for ½ year.
• 2006-2009-Ringling College of Art & Design, Major: Fine Arts, senior, pursuing BFA
• 2006- Space Coast Jr./Sr. High School, Port St. John, Florida, Diploma received, 3.67GPA
Collaborative/ Two Artists Exhibition:
* 2010 -“The Voyage of Infinite Parallels”, Crossley Gallery, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida
* 2008 -“Implacable Creature”, Crossley Gallery, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida
Group Exhibitions:
* 2010 -Senior Fine Art Thesis Show, Crossley Gallery and Smith Gallery, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida
-Best Of Ringling Student Juried Show, Smith Gallery, Sarasota, Florida
-Drag & Drop, Keating 2, Ringling College, Sarasota, Florida
• 2009 -Cosmix II, South Florida Museum & Bishop Planetarium, Bradenton, Florida
-Painting III, Installation Space, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida
-We Off Her Clothes Sure., We Off Her Trans Sentence, New York Independent Studio Exchange Program, Brooklyn, New York
-Best of Ringling Student Juried Show, Crossley Gallery, Sarasota, Florida
• 2008 -Cosmix, South Florida Museum & Bishop Planetarium, Bradenton, Florida
-Realia, Big E’s Coffee House, Sarasota, Florida
-Best of Ringling Student Juried Show, Crossley Gallery, Sarasota, Florida
Awards and Honors:
* 2010 -Materials Award & Faculty Award, Ringling College of Art, Sarasota, Florida
• 2009 -Ringling Trustee Scholar Fine Arts Student Nominee, Sarasota, Florida
-Yale/Norfork Summer Art Program Nominee, Sarasota, Florida
-New York Independent Studio Exchange Program located in Brooklyn, NY
• 2008 -Woman Contemporary Artists Scholarship Award, Sarasota, Florida
-Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award nominee
• 2006 -Grand Prize; 24th District Congressional Art Competition, which includes a trip to Washington D.C. for an award ceremony with other national Congressional art competition recipients, and the displaying of the Artwork in Washington D.C. for a complete year.
-Melbourne Art Festival Scholarship Award, Melbourne, Florida
-Best of Show and Third place (Sculpture) Awards in the same age category; The Henagar Strawbridge Art League Student Juried Art Show, Melbourne, Florida
-First place and second place; Brevard Museum of Art and Science Student Art Competition, Melbourne, Florida
Commissions & Public Art/Volunteer Work of Years 2001 through 2006:
• Murals -Volunteer: Port St. John Public Library, Retirement Home and First Baptist Church of Port St. John, Cocoa, Florida
-Jackson Middle School and Space Coast Jr./Sr. High School, Titusville & Cocoa, Florida
-Businesses: The Pediatrician’s Office and Surf Shop of Port St. John, Cocoa, Florida
-4 Private Homes located in Cocoa and one in Merritt Island, Florida
• Numerous commissions of -Portraiture, Landscape and other paintings and drawings
-Graphic Design: T-Shirts, Business Cards and Logo Designs
-Clay and Wood Sculpture Pieces
-2 Book Covers
Related Experiences:
• Attended the Ringling’s pre-college perspective program in July 2005, receiving the Outstanding Student award in Photography & Digital Imaging and outstanding performance awards in Modular Portrait and 2-D Design, Color and Digital Processes.
• Taught art lessons to children and adults. (2005-2006)
• Assistantship teaching Figure, Painting, Illustration and Drawing for Summer Teen Studios at Ringling College. (Summer 2009)
• Assistantship teaching Pre-College at Ringling College of Art. (Summer 2010)
• Worked for the Selby Gallery located at Ringling College of Art, Sarasota, Florida for 2 ½ years.
• Worked for the Smith Gallery located at Ringling College of Art, Sarasota, Florida for ½ year.
Mikaela Raquel Williams ARTIST STATEMENT 2010
I’m interested in creating elusive sci-fi environments and narrative images dealing with metaphysical issues such as the nature of existence, parallelism, god, space, time and identity. I’m making staged photographs, sculptural props for the photographs, performances, video work, painting and drawings. The photo documents from my site-specific installations and performances stand alone as artworks. My work is heavily influenced by surrealism, metaphysics, science-fiction cinema and mixed media. Another influence is the NASA Space Shuttle Program in Titusville, Florida, where my mother still works today.
Self-portraiture is used as a filter to investigate these ideas. The image of myself stands in for the human-race and its relationship to technology, both past and future. In this humanist context I often will emphasize the hand-made object in opposition to the machine-made, high-tech object. Colorful yarn, cut paper, children’s toys and the use of computer programs adds to the charm of an eerie atmosphere that pretends to be futuristic.
The action of projection along with the hand-made object illuminates a strange dialogue about pseudoscience, futuristic imagery, craft and a certain level of camp, the kind associated with old, low budget sci-fi fantasy flicks. For example, when I made a faux Mac laptop out of paper that appeared to be the source of a real projection, I reminded my viewer that art is a simulation of life, both high and low.
Self-portraiture is used as a filter to investigate these ideas. The image of myself stands in for the human-race and its relationship to technology, both past and future. In this humanist context I often will emphasize the hand-made object in opposition to the machine-made, high-tech object. Colorful yarn, cut paper, children’s toys and the use of computer programs adds to the charm of an eerie atmosphere that pretends to be futuristic.
The action of projection along with the hand-made object illuminates a strange dialogue about pseudoscience, futuristic imagery, craft and a certain level of camp, the kind associated with old, low budget sci-fi fantasy flicks. For example, when I made a faux Mac laptop out of paper that appeared to be the source of a real projection, I reminded my viewer that art is a simulation of life, both high and low.
Monday, February 15, 2010
Monday, February 8, 2010
chose a painter, and write about what you think that artist is doing that makes her/his work relevant today
OLIVER LUTZ
I hate this question. I think the question itself can sometimes be irrelevant. Oliver Lutz is a contemporary artist because he's making art now! This question only becomes relevant when you see someone making paintings like Mondrian or something. The influence of an artist established in a particular art movement is then undeniable. That artist making Mondrian paintings is in the wrong century! Oliver Lutz'z influences of art are the late 1800s until now. All re-interpreted into what he thinks is good art and what is special. Pretty much all contemporary work does that. It wont be till like 50 years from now we can look back and truly understand the contemporary movement of what artists were making in the 2000s. Why try to pinpoint it with a label or a trend? Isn't that one of the beautiful calculations of Contemporary art, its everything.
So to make it plain and simple: I don't know what Oliver Lutz is doing, but I understand what he's interested in and where he's coming from. I attended an artist talk by him and had a studio visit from him. I know after making a beautiful painting he will completely obliterate it with black paint. The audience is only able to view the painting underneath the black through special cameras. I feel like he's responding to our surveillance of culture. I know he's interested in many other things, his performances are really interesting too.
Photo Links:
http://www.artlies.org/_issues/59/reviews/sa.judson.lutz2.jpg
http://arttattler.com/Images/Europe/Belgium/Ghent/SMAK/Beyond%20the%20Picturesque/lutz.jpg
Main Website About the Artist:
http://www.oliverlutz.com/bio.htm
Gallery Links:
http://ps1.org/studio-visit/artist/oliver-lutz
-sorry about all the copy paste links, i couldnt get the links to work on my blog
I hate this question. I think the question itself can sometimes be irrelevant. Oliver Lutz is a contemporary artist because he's making art now! This question only becomes relevant when you see someone making paintings like Mondrian or something. The influence of an artist established in a particular art movement is then undeniable. That artist making Mondrian paintings is in the wrong century! Oliver Lutz'z influences of art are the late 1800s until now. All re-interpreted into what he thinks is good art and what is special. Pretty much all contemporary work does that. It wont be till like 50 years from now we can look back and truly understand the contemporary movement of what artists were making in the 2000s. Why try to pinpoint it with a label or a trend? Isn't that one of the beautiful calculations of Contemporary art, its everything.
So to make it plain and simple: I don't know what Oliver Lutz is doing, but I understand what he's interested in and where he's coming from. I attended an artist talk by him and had a studio visit from him. I know after making a beautiful painting he will completely obliterate it with black paint. The audience is only able to view the painting underneath the black through special cameras. I feel like he's responding to our surveillance of culture. I know he's interested in many other things, his performances are really interesting too.
Photo Links:
http://www.artlies.org/_issues/59/reviews/sa.judson.lutz2.jpg
http://arttattler.com/Images/Europe/Belgium/Ghent/SMAK/Beyond%20the%20Picturesque/lutz.jpg
Main Website About the Artist:
http://www.oliverlutz.com/bio.htm
Gallery Links:
http://ps1.org/studio-visit/artist/oliver-lutz
-sorry about all the copy paste links, i couldnt get the links to work on my blog
what i'm working on:
I having no problems right now, everything is going according to plan with the mikaela puppet.
I dont want to post photos. I like it to be a surprise...hahaha.
I'm sewing and glueing the skin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I dont want to post photos. I like it to be a surprise...hahaha.
I'm sewing and glueing the skin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
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