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• Cat Covid Meme
  A covid meme featuring a cat.
• Like a Tree Held Together With Duct Tape
  The image reads “Actual photo of how well I’m keeping it all together right now”. There is a tree that has split in half and is being barely held together with duct tape.
• Wearing Mask
  The picture of Patrick features him wearing a mask, while the picture below is of SpongeBob wearing a gas mask.
• Covid reflection
  Personal reflection on the positive and negative effects covid has had on my life.
• El Sacrificio
  "El Sacrificio" Oil pastel and magazine on canvas The title of my political/social collage is El Sacrificio meaning The Sacrifice in Spanish. The purpose is to bring attention to the plight of immigrants and the sacrifices they make immigrating from another country. My hope is to inspire people to think as global citizens and an understanding of what life is like outside the U.S. There are many misconceptions about immigrants, one of them being immigrants come here for an easy life or to live off the backs of American citizens. The truth is many people come here because they are choosing the survival of their family. Conditions around the world can be extremely difficult beyond the imagination of most Americans. They sacrifice leaving their culture, the land they love, and most importantly their families, in order to make an honest living. I can't say how to fix immigration problems, that is an huge and complicated issue. I wish however, that I can inspire people to see beyond our borders, and to see oneself as a global citizen as well. It is extremely important we show compassion, especially as we still face the fallout of Covid 19. This is really the first time I have been able to express myself about it because I have held so much anger inside. My husband is from a small Zapotec town in southern Mexico, where we spent the summer last year. We were very careful to quarantine before going, the virus had not reached many remote towns. A week after we left, people came in and kidnapped a girl, which lead to police and rescue teams coming in and bringing Covid with them. The girl was found, but the small Native American town with little medical care was hit hard. I lost three people in my family to Covid in one week, on of whom was my mother-in-law. They had no where to go, no one to help them. 911 does not exist there. Every time I hear the argument over vaccines I feel so angry. I know that it is every American's choice, but some people take for granted that we have a choice when so many don't. While our government was handing out checks, other governments were handing out body bags. My question to you is if you were born outside the U.S. how far would you go for your family?
• Getty Museum Project
  This Getty Museum's Artwork Challenge was created as an assignment for Susan Ludeke's ART 1910: Art Appreciation course. 1. My name is Izzy Marshburn and I am majoring in Exercise Physiology. I play soccer, hangout with my friends and family and am a huge homebody. My brother and sister are both into theatre and act in many plays. I enjoy looking at art but otherwise I don't have much of a background in it. 2. For my project, to begin I had my friend curl my hair and I had to try to find the best thing to imitate her clothing. I used a trash bag to imitate the tool that this young girl had over her shirt as well as using a flower in my hair to match with hers. I put in small hoops like she was wearing to try and match everything as best as I could. I tried to find a background that was similar to the background in the image that was being imitated but instead I decided to use the background from the original in mine. I had my friend photograph me for my picture to get the best angle and lighting. 3. This portrait is called Portrait of a Young Girl painted by Sophie Gengembre Anderson. The date of this painting is unknown but is from the anytime between 1823-1903 (her lifespan). I chose to do this painting because I wanted to do a piece that most people have not seen before. Ultimately in the end I chose to imitate this painting because the it reminded me of my sister. Due to the fact that it reminds me of my sister I also saw parts of me in it as well. Red hair runs in my family and it is very unique which really drew me into imitating this painting. 4. This project caused me to go out of my comfort zone as well as cause me to be more creative. I do not normally like taking pictures of myself but due to the fact that this was a fun project I enjoyed it much more. I had to use creativity to come up with using a trash bag as the top of her shirt. 5. I thought this project was cool because it allowed for a good challenge of your creativity. When we were having to stay in this would have been a fun thing to do to allow us to use our creativeness more than we might have been. It was enjoyable to do and ultimately brought me a few laughs since I had friends help.
• Selfie in a Mask
  My name is Hiral and I am a senior majoring in Public Health! I am the captain and founder of ECU’s Bollywood Fusion dance team/club sport- ECU Khazana! My interests include dance of course as well as creating art. I recently got into resin art while quarantine was the peak of COVID-19. I was so tired of being in my room that I ordered supplies from amazon and did some art in my garage at home. I ended up going viral on TikTok and started my own Etsy page! This has definitely opened my eyes to the science behind the art as well. I plan on creating more variety of art in the future. My background in the arts started ever since elementary school. I would always sign up for an art class every year and progressed up until AP Art in high school. I have been a part of Charlotte’s annual Project the Runway as part of a chosen and skilled team in which we all created an outfit from 100% recycled materials. This engaged my creative side to think of other possibilities as well. I have also always seen my dad create art ever since I was a little girl. He majored in graphic design and I vividly remember helping him create all of his projects- whether it be modeling, helping with lighting, shadows, etc. He showed me how to draw shadows on all of his sketches and I guess it has been embedded into my head ever since. My process started with coming up with a concept of COVID-19. I knew that COVID-19 is what initiated my art journey into something magical. I have fallen in love with photography, art, photoshop, etc. With all three of these combined, I was able to create art that people could buy for themselves, or gift to others. It made me happy to know that people all over the nation were interested in what I had to offer. I thought of some meaningful materials to symbolize what my experience with COVID-19 has been. The use of mirrors became a thought I had to figure out and it worked. I wanted to make my eyes the “lens” of the camera but not literally. By lens, I mean mirrors! It is a lovely reflection in which you can warp objects with the use of a variety of mirrors or have a mirror-to-mirror reflection. I came up with this idea in my head, I did not want to get inspiration from another artist because it would be less of a challenge for me. This is not a protective mask. I would wear this in public if I wanted to do a photoshoot or display the rest of my art pieces in a way to describe my journey. The mirrored mask represents what I have learned during COVID-19 by reflecting and looking back at memories that I fond over. It is a self-portrait because a part of my identity is shown on my body through art. The mask shows how much a camera means to me. Capturing moments during quarantine was very important to me as well as looking back at photos before the quarantine. I have dealt with the Coronavirus situation by using my camera and phone to create art that I will always look back at and say, “wow, I really used quarantine time to reflect, think, and grow.” I took the photo I did because I wanted the reflection to be visible through the mirrors. The point is to see the camera as well as the reflective background. I like how the mask’s shape flows upward rather than covers my entire face. Using a camera to hide my mouth is symbolism for the camera to be the main speaker. Looking through the camera from the mirror is what captures the image. It represents how I am dealing with this time period by reflecting on past memories and moments that have been captured through a lens. I have sat in my bed for countless hours not knowing what to do and this opened my eyes to capturing more moments with a camera to later look back at and reminisce on. Without my phone/camera, I also would not have been successful with my Etsy shop! Quarantine time influenced a strong decision to start creating and recording my art and I am so glad I took that huge step! This was created as an assignment for Susan Ludeke's ART 1910: Art Appreciation course.
• "Harlequin" By Pablo Picasso (Getty Museum Imitation Challenge)
  This was created as an assignment for Susan Ludeke's ART 1910: Art Appreciation course. This is my first ever attempt at the Getty Musuem Challenge for my Art Appreciation course @ ECU. My name is Irish Youmans, and I'm a Biology Major. I live in Charlotte, NC with my mom, stepdad, my older and younger brother and younger sister. My interests are writing, nature, and animals. I think I'm only somewhat artistic since I mainly write more than I paint, its mostly just adventure stories that I write while I like painting landscapes, but I have painted much since we moved to Charlotte and live in the suburbs. My mom and brother are more artistic since both love making music and my mom has her own painting business called Microphones and Paintbrushes. The process in recreating this portrait was pretty simple. I had a blue flannel similar to the outfit the person in the painting had, but I had to use tissue paper to make the white frills at the wrist and a trash bag for the one at the base of the neck. For my face, I used a face cream as face paint and used my head scarf to imitate the hair. I also used a spare TV tray and one of my sister's toys as the table to the right of the person in the painting. My older brother took this photo from my phone but couldn't get the focus right at first. The name of the painting is called "Harlequin" by Pablo Picasso, made in 1901. I chose this artwork since this painting is another form of the art style used in most of Picasso's work. Picasso mostly did abstract art in the form of cubism, which is putting geometric shapes in depictions of humans and other forms. This may seem like an easy one to imitate but putting it together to at least look similar was a little tough since the flannel I used was stored away and I could barely find it, I also tried to add the flowers behind me but we didn't have any flowers in our house (even fake ones) so I worked to make this as accurate as possible. It would be a self portrait since Picasso created the original painting with the use of the Harlequin dressed in shapes. It was a good way to see how creative I could be with a painting like this and how I could pull it off with the materials around me. It's a cool project since it can show someone's creative side and see what they could do. Even people who live mainly at home or even in dorms/apartments at ECU would have to be even more creative with more limited resources they would have. This challenge really would show how creative people can be like most of the paintings recreated by other people.
• Getty Museum Challenge/ Hands of God and Adam
  This was created as an assignment for Susan Ludeke's ART 1910: Art Appreciation course. For this project I chose the Getty Museum Challenge. I chose this because it just seemed like there were options with this challenge and I was able to have a variety of things I could look at. The only materials that I used for this project was my phone and me and my friend’s hands. I photographed it by using my hand to take the picture of both of me and my friend’s hand to get the right angle for the picture. The artist of the work I imitated was from Michelangelo. The title of the painting was Hands of God and Adam. The date of this painting was created between 1536 and 1541. I chose this artwork because it seemed very cool and interesting. It was an easy painting to recreate. The only way it is in some way a self-portrait is because I took a picture of it, and it is my hand in the picture. But that is the only way I can think of it being a self-portrait for this project. This project was creative when it came to the way we had to put our hands in the certain position. It took a couple of times to make sure it was in the right position and just looked right. This was a cool project because it made me see all the cool art that I could have used for this project. It was cool for people that may have had to stay home because it gave them their house to be able to do the cool backgrounds for this project.
• My Getty Musemum Challenge
  This was created as an assignment for Susan Ludeke's ART 1910: Art Appreciation course. It was inspired by the Getty museum challenge that started during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Getty Art Museum, in Los Angeles CA, challenged the public to browse there selection of pieces and try and recreate them with things around their house, their family can even their pets. The following is an essay I wrote that went along with my project that explains a little bit about me and the piece: Hey! My name is Jessica Wagstaff my major is nursing, and I absolutely love it. I really enjoy doing makeup and I would say making flower arrangements is a hobby of mine. I do not have a background in art myself, but my mother and sister are both artists, so I have always been surrounded by it. The first thing I started on with my Imitate Artwork challenge was finding a picture that had a connection to me. Originally, I was looking for a painting that could pose for myself but when I found the one, I wanted to imitate I immediately thought that the girl in the painting reminded me of my friend Emma. So, I asked her if she'd be willing to pose for my project and she said she was happy too. Then I gathered my materials I already had a blue sheet I can use as a background, a gold bangle and makeup, so I went to the store in search of a handheld mirror and a fluffy ball to imitate an old blush applicator. To take the photo I pulled up the image and posed Emma as close to the girl in the painting and took a bunch of pictures from different angles. The artist I am imitated was Norman Rockwell. The painting is called Little Girl with Lipstick, and it was painted in 1922, it was the cover of the American magazine in February 1922. I chose this artwork because I have love for makeup and I can remember putting on my mom's lipstick as a little girl, so it related to me. It is an aesthetically pleasing painting to me, I especially appreciated the whimsical way her hair flows. I would say in some ways it could be a self-portrait because I see myself in the little girl. I would say this was a very creative project for me, I haven't done anything like this in a long time. Finding the right angle was the most difficult part for me because I wanted it to be perfect. I think this is a cool project because it allowed people to create and be social by sharing their creativity it allows them to feel a sense of community while having to stay at home.
• Choluteca
  During the early months of covid-19, I had a lot of time on my hands. I only had online school and 4 classes a day barely kept me occupied. Because of this, I started watching many TV shows. My favorite TV show I began watching is called ‘Money Heist.’ The show is about a group of individuals with city names robbing the bank of Spain by printing their own money and keeping hostages. I fell in love with the show immediately and it is still the best show I have ever watched to date. Because I love the show so much, I decided to base my project on it. In Money Heist, the robbers wore a mask that depicted Salvador Dali, a famous Spanish painter. Dali rejected capitalism and they used his face to symbolize that what they were doing was a protest to capitalism. For my project, I decided to mask myself as one of the robbers. My city name is Choluteca, the city where my grandfather was born. My job as a robber was solely to keep track of all the important hostages whose presence was vital for our escape and success. For my project, I decided to create my headshot as a robber. To create my mask, I cut out Dali’s head shape from a shoe box of a pair of Nikes I own. I then drew the face with a dramatic mustache and cut out the eye holes. I then painted the mask with tan and black paint. To style the mask, I used my little brother’s red Coca-Cola hoodie to portray the red jumpsuits the robbers wore. For the picture, I placed my mask over my face and put the hoodie on. To edit the picture, I used the app Picsart where I colored the background black and added a beam of light. My photo is aesthetically pleasing because it is simple. There’s not a lot going on so the viewer’s only focus can be my name and my mask, the star of the project. It also represents how I spent my time during quarantine. This was created as an assignment for Susan Ludeke's ART 1910: Art Appreciation course.
• The Quarantine of Poor Lisa
  When looking at the Getty Museum challenge I knew I had to recreate a piece of artwork myself. Orest Kiprensky's "Poor Lisa" caught my eye as a beautiful piece, and more importantly one I could make my own. In staying with the spirit of COVID and shelter in place, I did not buy anything in order to recreate the piece. My clothes did not match the painting, nor did the sheet or the backdrop. I edited, color corrected and inserted color until I felt I had matched the original. Even the flow in my hand was sourced from home, a snapdragon grown by myself. This challenge gave a way for people to appreciate art from their own home, and pulled us together during trying times. This was created as an assignment for Susan Ludeke's ART 1910: Art Appreciation course.
• Imitate Artwork Challenge: "Girl with a Pearl Earring"
  Hi! I’m Ella and I chose “The Girl With The Pearl Earring” painted by Johannes Vermeer. I chose this piece because as a child my grandparents had a copy of it hanging up in their house and they always told me our side profiles are similar. A good memory for sure as they gave me the painting when I graduated high school. I used an old tshirt as the headband, a sweater, and a jacket to recreate the outfit. I might’ve taken the earrings from my mom but don’t worry she’ll get them back when I go home next. I photographed myself with my iPhone. This project was fun! It really is a way to express creativity with stuff just around the house, I really enjoyed being able to find things around my house instead of having to go out and buy something. Another painting would definitely be fun to recreate with your family, I feel like it could be a good bonding experience between everyone and a way for everyone to kind of regroup during such a hard time in everyone’s life. This was created as an assignment for Susan Ludeke's ART 1910: Art Appreciation course.
• Futuristic Mother Nature
  This was created as an assignment for Susan Ludeke's ART 1910: Art Appreciation course. It is the Getty Museum Challenge developed by the Getty Museum of Art during the Covid-19 pandemic.
• Creation of Me
  I recreated Michelangelo‘s “The Creation of Adam'' with my sister, some props, and a little bit of editing. This was created as an assignment for Susan Ludeke's ART 1910: Art Appreciation course.
• Masked identity
  I am majoring in Criminal Justice with a minor in Psychology. Whenever I have free time some of the favorite things that I like to do is draw, paint, and binge-watch some of my favorite shows. I also enjoy traveling whenever I can, I love to admire all the beautiful places earth has to give. I started out this project by sketching out different versions of the mask that I wanted to make. Once I decided what style I was going to do for a mask, I went out and got all the materials that would be needed. The materials I used were paper, color pencils, cardboard, wire, fake flowers, a fake butterfly, and markers. What inspired me to create this mask was the reflection of how I imagined myself to be. This mask is a representation of how I feel about myself. Although the mask that I have created is not a protective mask, I still would not go and wear it around in public. This mask represents me because it shows the internal struggles that I have and how it makes me up as a whole. every experience makes me the person that I am today. This mask can convey how I dealt with coronavirus because it was a difficult time for me since I am not used to changing, I was having a hard time living my life and finding the true me. I took this photo this way because the pink lighting emphasizes all the colors and makes it stand out more. This photo can be found aesthetically pleasing and creative because in its own unique way this mask is able to convey meaning while at the same time making all the bold colors stand out as well as having a creative structure that has flowers and wire throughout the mask. This was created as an assignment for Susan Ludeke's ART 1910: Art Appreciation course.
• Fruit Fulfillment
  My name is Jaylon Hart, my major is biology and a few interests of mine are; shoes, sports and the outdoors. The only major background of art I have if any is taking a couple of semesters of different types of arts throughout school growing up. However, I do have a big interest in landscape paintings or paintings that depict a particular place and time. The process of making my mask was simple yet complex, I had to find some artificial fruit that wasn't too small or too big. Then I chose a mask that I knew could hold up the fruit that wouldn't be too flimsy. From here, I began to arrange the fruit on the mask in different ways until I had almost the whole mask covered with different variations of fruit. Next I began to glue the different types of fruit to the mask making sure everything was a good fit before continuing to glue. After glueing all the fruit to the mask, this was the result I got. What inspired the mask, is the fruit somewhat foreshadowing how I like to maintain a good diet to keep my body as well as my mind healthy, especially after Covid first began. One thing I like about the mask is that it is in fact a protective mask, it just has a little decoration to it. However, there's a chance I may wear it in public but I'm not for certain. This is a self-portrait because it's a piece of art that is centered around me (my face) and was created by myself. This mask and pose convey how I've dealt with the Coronavirus situation with the fruit as I talked a little about above, as well as being outdoors. The fruit allowed me to keep a healthy diet throughout the many different quarantines and phases we've had to go through, especially at first when almost everything was closed. Additionally, me posing outdoors hints towards how I spent most of my time during these situations, I'm sure almost all of us got tired of sitting inside at some point. But the fruit and outdoors helped keep me healthy and occupied in many different ways. I took the type of photo I did because it shows the fruit on the mask as well as nature in the background. The two go hand-in-hand with my inspiration of this project. The different sizes, shapes and colors of the fruits make my photo aesthetically pleasing as well as the different shades of green leaves in the background. It's unique in a way that the fruit and the leaves in the background could have many different meanings to people. The two could foreshadow so much more than just a healthy diet and enjoying the outdoors. However, those two reasons show how the mask represents how I have dealt with the time period we're living and how I am dealing with the time period we're living in. This was created as an assignment for Susan Ludeke's ART 1910: Art Appreciation course.
• Meme Assignment #2
  Meme Assignment for ENGL3570
• Meme Assignment #3
  Meme Assignment for ENGL3570
• Meme Assignment #1
  Meme Assignment portraying my experience with COVID-19
• Lady in Red
  Hi! My name is Makayla Parker, I am majoring in nursing, I am currently enrolled at Craven Community College ADN program and here at East Carolina in the aRIBN program for my BSN. With the healthcare industry continuously growing there is always a need for extra hands. I originally fell in love with the idea of working in the healthcare setting from my stepmom, she is a registered nurse, and I would always love sitting around listening to her tell us about her workdays and the things she got to experience as a nurse. I also loved the idea that I would be an individual who could help improve another person’s health/lifestyle. Some of my interests include cooking, reading, going to the beach, and when I was younger up until my senior year of high school, I loved playing softball. I have zero background in the art world, but I have always been intrigued by the idea of art itself. For this process it took me a while to find an actual art piece that I wanted to recreate, there are so many beautiful pieces that I could have chosen but the one I picked stood out the most to me. For the red head wrap, I used one of my sweaters and had my mom place the sleeves in the shape of the original art piece. Other than the red sweater I placed makeup on to give my skin a softer matte look. I had my brother stand behind me with a black sheet and my mother took the picture for me. The artist I chose was Taras Loboda and the painting I chose is “The Lady in Red’ from 2005. I chose this piece because not only was it aesthetically pleasing, but I also really like the details the artist put into this painting. You can see the different brush strokes, and the shadows that create depth, I think the best part about the painting though is the young woman’s face. This picture portrays her as an innocent-looking woman but the detail that takes place in the eyes/eyebrows shows that there is more than meets the eye of the viewer. I feel as if this is in a way a self-portrait because personally, I am not one to express many emotions let alone speak about the things that are going on in my life, looking at this picture I see someone who has a lot to say but choose the other route and that they can easily put up a front like their world isn’t crumbling down on them. Honestly, I am sure I could’ve been more creative but I think looking past the portrait of this woman and creating a meaning of it for myself is where most of the creativity sparked for me. I think that this is a very cool project you know, not only dealing with COVID and what is going on in the world today, but I think most to almost all of us are taking this online and will never meet each other outside of these discussion posts. This was created as an assignment for Susan Ludeke's ART 1910: Art Appreciation course.
• Masked Emotions
  This is a piece I made to explain how words affect people. The mask with the hurtful words is made to show how these words control you. The tears are shown to express the emotion. When making this I used names that I had been called to show the mask they truly put on you. You choose to let them control you. You create this new mask to not be what these people say but at the end of the day its still covers you as well as affects you emotionally. This was created as an assignment for Susan Ludeke's ART 1910: Art Appreciation course.
• Covid selfie
  during covid I experienced a lot of ups and downs that shaped me to the person I am today, my art piece shows different sides of me as I went through covid. you can see some sad aspects, some joyful aspects, some angry aspects and a mixture of colors. I also added lego pieces to make my project pop in texture but also because during the pandemic my love for legos where at an all time high since I was locked indoors and had nothing else to do so legos where a health alternative to other substances and bad habits I relied on to release the boredom I had from being cooped up in my house. This was created as an assignment for Susan Ludeke's ART 1910: Art Appreciation course.
• Finding Self-Love
  I created a mask for my Art Appreciation class in Spring 2022 that is based on the pandemic. My mask represents how much personal growth I went through from the start of the pandemic to now.
• SELFIE IN A MASK
  This was created as an assignment for Susan Ludeke's ART 1910: Art Appreciation course. I am going into the major of Business Management. I am from Charlotte, North Carolina and came to ECU originally for the nursing program but changed by mind quickly for business management. For years, when I was little, I drew tons of artwork which has gradually gotten better. My dad was a very good artist, so I like to think I got that from him. From looking at this project at the beginning, I immediately knew I wanted to base it off of the covid-19 pandemic. This pandemic has not only affected me greatly but friends and family members as well. I used the black background with gray effect to show how depressing and sad the pandemic was on me and others. The message of my mask is not only show how sad and upsetting the pandemic was but to also show that it was quite, in simple terms, boring. The entire world shut down, with almost everyone going online, airports and businesses shutting down with leaving people with not many things to do. This caused great hardship, worriedness, and depression seeing the world shut down and this unknown virus, at the time, take over. This mask not only shows feelings that I encountered but feelings that my friends and families expressed as well. I will not wear this mask in public since it is quite personal to me showing the horrible feelings I encountered during the pandemic. This shows my true self and how I felt during the pandemic. Although there is a lot of darkness in my photo, I wanted to show a bit of light, specifically on the words, to show I am growing stronger and getting past these feelings. My photo is aesthetically pleasing from the dark and light effects showing depression. The simple words on the mask also show a feeling of dampening to express everything shutting down and allowing us not to be able to do anything. The effects are unique compared to everyone else's and shows that it is okay to have to these feelings. Usually, people hide their emotions behind their mask, but it is okay to express them. (Mentally Unstable, Confused, Sleep Deprived, Lonely, Scared, Lost, Avoided)