MN GCE Portfolio

In every person's life, each person is presented with a challenge. When faced with that challenge they must surrender or endure. For my class Endurance, we discussed and studied how others have endured challenges great and small. For our first project, each of us decided upon a mission for ourselves. The mission I set for myself was to become a better artist. For this project, we had to dedicate 12 hours to our mission and document the process. I spent my time working on one painting and it was both easier and harder than I expected it to be. I have worked on a number of paintings in my life and going into this I was already aware of the mental blocks that come with creating art.  The greatest challenge of this painting was the size and scope I set out with. With a 4x7ft canvas and 6 figures in the composition, I started to regret my ambitious planning. I am also unhappy that I was unable to finish the painting in 12 hours, though it was not a surprise. I am planning on finishing i...

This is my third and final action project for my humanities class called Rhetoric. In this class we learned and discussed different way of presenting arguments, ideas and truths. We talked about how rhetoric plays into not just campaigns and in politics, but how everything is a form or rhetoric. In this unit we focused mainly on the rhetoric and meaning of art. We talked about outside artists, who are people who are not part of the mainstream or the art world elite nor conform to the confines of the typical art form. For this action project we had to create a piece of art that related to a social issue of our choice that we felt that we had something to say about. After creating it we had to explain why we created what we did and what we were trying to express and start a discussion about. In the images you can see images of the two pieces of art that I created for this project. MN ("I Will Not Be Silenced" Art #1) 2017 MN ("BE YOUR OWN F**KIN HERO" Art #2...