Things I found that I enjoy

I have been searching the internet for images I enjoy looking at. They make me smile, cringe, laugh and say awww, those are the biggest reasons I like them.

Giving Back to the Community

In my Art in Community class we are putting together projects to work within the community and give back to the local communities. I have two ideas of what I want to do and they both were approved.Intermedia Arts is a local urban arts venue for local children. They teach performing arts, writing and urban arts. They are lacking funds to stay open for the summer programs. What I am proposing to do is collect artwork from the community and auction them off to raise money so they can continue with their summer programs. The summer programs are really important to the kids it gives them something to occupy their time and keep them out of trouble as well as teaching them things they love to do.
Hope Community Center is a center on Portland and Franklin Ave. This area in the last ten years have not been the best neighborhood to be caught in at night, but Hope Community has turned this area around with the things they have been doing. I would like to teach a class for children and teenagers to create banners to hang on Franklin Avenue to revitalized the community visually. The students will create the banners about how the Elliot Park neighborhood has affected them in a positive way. Then before the banners are hung on Franklin Avenue I would like to have them displayed in a gallery like setting inviting all the members of Elliot Park to come check out what Hope Community has been doing in the neighborhood.

People and Things I Appreciate

Good Graffiti Lady Pink

Ewok

Shock

Chen

Painting Jean- Michel Basquiat

Printmaking Robert Rauschenberg

Edvard Munch

Photography Nan Goldin

Martin Parr

Diane Arbus

Jim Goldberg

Josef Koudelka

Old Stuff

This is part of a bigger project I was working having to do with time and light and following street artists around.
This is from my summer internship at Juxtaposition Arts. I photographed the summer programs, my favorite was the mural class.








one of my original guardian angel photographs
I can draw too...This is for a screenprinting project I am working on call Minneapolis Underground
One of my projects for Photographic Idea. I took this stress ball that looks like George Bush and put him in different parts of Minneapolis and photographed him.
From my summer and fall documentary series




My domestic space project





These were shot on 4x5 film for my Large Format class. Documenting people that utilize the facilities at the Dorothy Day Center in St. Paul.


Documenting my dad going through dialysis and awaiting a new kidney, which he got right after I finished this project.