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!

The Lost Tribe of Butterfly people

Im so happy I finish these. I hope I have time to do more, but school is about to start and don't know what type of time I'm going to have.

Black Women as Saints

My new work is presented at Inspirational Grounds Coffee Shop and Bookstore, 629 W.W White Road, San Antonio,TX

This mix media is something I have been experimenting with for about a year and I am totally pleased with the out come. I limited myself with the materials: a harlequin book, toilet paper, glue pencil, acrylic, and oil paint. So many thoughts and creative ideas swim around in my brain that sometimes I don't know which direction to go. So I thought if I limit the materials used I would be force to captivate at least a fragment of my mind.

The Idea

 

The black women has been considered historically inferior. There have also even been recent studies stating black women are the most unattractive women in the world. I also read that 72% of black children are raised by single black mothers. With so much scrutiny a black women goes through one must wonder how does she stay so strong. Maybe the black women is build "Ford Tough.". With all this is mind I decided to create a collection called "Black Women as Saints." As a single mother myself, I get the judgmental stares and stereo types. Even though I have a bachelors degree, teaching career and not living off of the government, I'm still an unwed black mother. But I never let any stereo type stop me from anything. I owe it to my daughter to be all that I can be. 

This collection is dedicated to black women, no matter what society or stupid studies may say, we are strong, smart, talented and beautiful from our hair and skin, to our African features. Our ancestor wombs help build this country and that is something to be proud of.

Go check out my new work!!

Large watercolor

This is a water color I've been working on for 2 years. I ran out of gold leaf or lost it, so it's not finished yet, but I love it. This was a photo graph I stole from a friend. I sketched it a couple of times then gave it back when I was finished.

New Art

These are all new oil paintings that I have been working on. I took a break from watercolor to see if I am able to paint with oil. I think I did a pretty good Job. But I still prefer water color.

This is a self portrait of me called "African Violet"

I had my student studying impressionism and I want to see if I was able to do it with these last two paintings