Faith Ringgold Quilt project.

I created a project based off of Faith Ringold's quilts. If you are not familiar with Ringold's amazing quilt work, here is a power point I put together to teach my students.

I created this power point to introduce personal functional art to my students.

I gave them instructions and they created a paper quilt as a class.

I cut 4.5 x 4.5 inch squares and the student put a personal touch to each one.

Then they put their cards together with yarn; punching two holes on each side.

This was a fun project. My only issue was keeping my students from stealing each other's cards. 

Practical, Cultural & Personal art

I taught my students about about different functions of are art. They were to create a three denominational piece of work that showed at least two functions and explain it. This is what they came up with:

My students have a lot of pride in the city of San Antonio. As you can see the Alamo and the baseball glove. Which is a salute to the San Antonio Missions baseball team!

This young lady made her dream studio apartment.

These two boys have a lot of pride in their city and the East side of San Antonio.

Fabulous wardrobe!

The Wheatley Courts! With a live sponge bob installation.

His condo!

Small town with ice cream shop.

Grad School

I have taken a year and I half sabbatical from creating art to focus on Grad School. That time is almost up (May 3rd!!) and I can't wait to focus on my work and building the art program at the school I teach at. It's been a long and tough journey; I gained 20 pounds and lost my boyfriend to heart failure. So, I will have a lot of story telling to do through my work.

Through it all, some wonderful things have happen. I was asked to put together a workshop for the San Antonio Museum of Art.

My beautiful daughter Zion in attendances supporting her mommy.

I focused on artist Marilyn Lanfear ink water color family portraits. These ink water colors have an amazing balance of contrast. These pieces unify the installations, and will not make sense if they stood on their own. Like family, they need each other to stay strong.

The project I developed for family day was modeled after this piece. Kids used stamps to create their Marilyn Lanfear prototype!