Author Archives: ginaolson1121

This was another one of my favorite assignments this semester. I had already been working on this scrapbook previously to the assignment but once I heard that we could do remix art I instantly new I wanted to use the assignment as an excuse to finish the project. The way I ended up doing myContinue reading “Remix Culture”

Artist: Micol Hebron Media: Social influencer/ Mixed Website: http://www.malenipplepastry.com Instagram: @unicornkiller1 Micol Hebron works as an Los Angeles-based artist, educator, organizer, and curator. Her main goal however is always to fight for equity and supporting the underrepresented. In 2014 she took pictures of herself topless at art exhibition that was a fundraiser for breast cancer.Continue reading “Artist Conversation #5”

I know the assignment was to do graffiti art with our names but I really felt like painting this week. I have been flooded with boring assignments that have really drained me mentally. So I really felt like painting to recharge my batteries and the graffiti assignment was a great excuse to paint while stillContinue reading “Graffiti”

My idea was to gather materials from my walk with my dog and make some sort of collage out of the plants and leaves I picked up. I chose to use just picked leaves and flowers from the plants outside my house. My idea was to first glue together leaves to make a flat surfaceContinue reading “Sustainable Art”

For this weeks blog, we were assigned to explore three virtual games, artist, or worlds. I have decided that I want to explore three different games, that being; Minecraft, Sims, and Stardew Valley, and explore how each of these games provides the players a sense of vacation from their realities of the world. Considering theContinue reading “My Virtual Art Gallery”

My goal with my vlog was to just act as natural as possible. Vlogging and being in front of cameras is certainly something that I am not used to. I tend to feel like I’m very awkward and end up getting very self conscious of my self. With that being said, I think I didContinue reading “Vlogging”

Before I started drawing the map I thought I was going to be able to remember a lot more of campus considering I lived there. I started drawing and found that I started with Parkside dorms and branched out from there. It was quite easy at first adding the surrounding buildings and parking. I quicklyContinue reading “Cognitive Maps & Automatic Drawing”

Mahsa Sorouri Nature’s Cadence http://www.mahsasoroudi.com Mahsa Sorouri is an Iranian born artist who moved to america just a week after she was married. Within her interview she shared how was always surrounded by art growing up as her father was a painter. She talks a little about her first moved to Malaysia where she learnedContinue reading “Artist Conversation #4”

When I was writing my pop song I was trying to think out old messages I had with a person and just tried to make them more dramatic and “cringe” aka Romances them. The process was very unorganized and I basically went with an approach of spitting everything onto a piece of paper. Once thatContinue reading “Writing a Pop Song”

Sienna Brown is a senior here at CSULB getting her degree in MFA. She plans to use her experiences as an artist and her education here to continue on to getting a teaching degree so that some day she can become an art teacher. She aims to change the experiences of many young people whoContinue reading “Artist Talk #3”