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• Melting Mask
  I am a sophomore this year and I am studying communications with a concentration in Public Relations and a minor in sports studies. One of my favorite forms of art is writing and it has always been a passion of mine. Especially when I can turn that writing into some sort of presentation because when I am passionate about a subject I am a talker and innovator. My mask was sort of out of the ordinary and was used only out of snow and the right lighting for my photography. I was originally was going to do the recreating art pieces but over spring break it snowed and inspiration stuck. I just shoved my face in snow not really expecting much out of it. It just did it because the cold always makes me feel relaxed and when I went down in the snow and popped up I had a face or a mask if you will, sitting right in front of me and it perfectly portrayed my experience with the pandemic. Of course, I can never wear this mask in public because it did melt but I think it shows the true beauty of the experience I had with COVID-19. No matter how stressed I was and as you can see it is almost like I’m screaming into the snow by how much anxiety and stress the pandemic gave me and my family. The snow melting away (my “mask”) melting away really shows how my anxiety and stress can melt away as well. I believe the photo is also aesthetically pleasing the snow glistening and how beautiful the snow is with such strong emotion placed in the snow shows me that everything has a silver lining. I believe that this mask really shows how stressed and how we all wanted to let a scream out or two during the pandemic and even though we dealt with so much stress and anxiety it showed how there is beautiful underlying detail in all of this. As we are all college students it was good to maybe spend some extra time with my parents before I move away forever. It also shows just like snow, our feelings melt away. This was created as an assignment for Susan Ludeke's ART 1910: Art Appreciation course.
• Mask/unmasked Project
  I know my project does not look like much, but I will be honest I really did not have any idea what I was going to do for this project. I was kinda stuck in a pickle because I had a hard time figuring out how I was going to get the supplies for this project when my roommate had the best idea to just use things around us, in our room, in her car, in our notebooks etc. So I took that idea and decided I was going to show some of the struggles college students have. For example there is a guy partying, old lecture notes, a clock to represent time management, dollar signs, stress and depression. I used some old chemistry notes, sticky notes, markers, and the iconic Top Ramen. This mask represents the struggle of being a college student. This was created as an assignment for Susan Ludeke's ART 1910: Art Appreciation course.
• SITREP COVID-19
  One of the last Situation Reports for Contact Tracing of COVID-19.
• Atypical Masking
  This mask represents my experience as a neurodivergent person, and how I've had to "mask" my emotions and expressions around others. The designs are colored in a way that mimics a child’s drawing, which represents how neurotypicals find our behavior immature, and thus infantilize us. But if one is to see past that, then there is beauty to be found within the designs. I then cut off half of the mask off, so you could still see half of my real face alongside the plastic one. I wanted to convey the variety of emotions I feel under this “mask”, all the while all you see physically is my blank expression. This is what the everyday person sees me as, this is what my classmates see, this is what most neurotypicals see; most don’t know what’s behind the mask. This was created as an assignment for Susan Ludeke's ART 1910: Art Appreciation course.
• I am Dragon
  This is from a project I did in Art. This mask expresses how I feel and the strength I showed to myself and the people around me throughout Covid-19. This was created as an assignment for Susan Ludeke's ART 1910: Art Appreciation course.
• Recreation of the Whistler's Mother
  Hi, my major is Economics with a business administration minor, some of my interests are hanging out with my family and friends, traveling and watching sports. My background in art is that we had to take it from kindergarten to fifth grade. Then when I was in high school I took it all of my 4 years. During my childhood I loved painting, but when I took more classes in high school I experienced more techniques in painting and loved those when I could use them on the project that we would do. During my sophomore year of high school I wanted to experiment with photography so I did and that is what my concentration was when I took AP Art & Design senior year. The first step in my process was finding this picture. I chose this picture because it reminded me of a wall in my room because I have gray walls and I have a picture frame on one of my walls. My second step was finding the materials so I got one of my old textbooks to put my feet on, but you cannot see it because the blanket is so big so it covered the textbook. Then I had to find something that was flowy and black but this was the only color blanket that I could find. The materials that I used were 2 old textbooks, a blanket, and my desk chair. Then I put my phone on the side of my bed and put a timer on and then took the picture. I took this picture over and over because I kept forgetting to look at the wall and not the camera. The name of the painting that I recreated is Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1, the painting better known as Whistler’s Mother, James Abbott McNeill Whistler is the artist and it was created in 1871. I chose this photograph to recreate because it was very appealing to me. I liked how the white from the picture frame and the white accents from her dress contrasted with the colors that are around her. This is a self portrait because it represented a person that he thought very high of and was very important in his life. This project was very creative of me because I had to find the right setting to place myself in so that the backgrounds resembled each other. I also had to find things that resembled what she was wearing. So I had to turn the right side of my brain on and not left the left side of my brain take over while I was trying to recreate the image. I think that this was a cool project especially when people were sheltering in because you can recreate any image with any materials whether you have all the right pieces or not that is where your creative part of your brain comes in and you think of other things that could symbolize the pieces that are missing from the picture or painting that you have available to use. Remaking an art piece as part of the Getty Art Challenge. The Getty Museum of Art created the challenge as a way to keep people engaged during the pandemic. This was created as an assignment for Susan Ludeke's ART 1910: Art Appreciation course.
• Girl with Balloon
  Remaking an art piece as part of the Getty Art Challenge. The Getty Museum of Art created the challenge as a way to keep people engaged during the pandemic. This was created as an assignment for Susan Ludeke's ART 1910: Art Appreciation course.
• New Kahlo’s Pandemic
  Hello, everyone! My name is Natalie Pennell-Romero; I am 20 years old and I am a psychology major, aiming towards my career as a children's therapist. My interests include art, music, spiritual learning, spending time with my family and boyfriend. From a very young age I have always been amused by art in all forms, from music flowing through my house whether it be my mother blasting salsa or my dad playing guitar and scribbling with crayons. I sang in school and county competitions when I was younger. However, visual arts has always been a huge part of my life, investing myself in art classes up until high school where it slowly declined because of core classes getting in the way. But I still make art when I can today. For this assignment, I was challenged to be a bit more creative than I have been in the last couple of years. For my headpiece, I used feathers from my cats' toy and bobby-pinned paper butterflies that I cut out. I also used makeup to illustrate the portrait's unibrow and "peach fuzz." After completing my hair and makeup, I used an old dress that I wore in high school and kept my jewelry on to mimic the thorns around Kahlo's neck. Also the hummingbird in the original piece represents luck to Frida and the crystal inside my necklace symbolizes luck as well. I whipped out my phone in front of natural lighting and shot a single photo. I did some editing to the image and photoshopped a similar background my cats onto my shoulders to imitate the animals. I mimicked one of most influential, Hispanic female artists of all time, Frida Kahlo in her Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, completed in 1940. I chose this portrait to represent my culture as a fellow Central-American who has had to defy beauty standards and physical illnesses and as a member of the LGBT+ community. I am personally affected by all her works; in a way she tells my stories too. This piece aesthetically resonates with me because it is the desire for love and peace amidst hardships that surround us. This became my own self-portrait in the way it is modernized with my nose jewelry and red hair, and as I am a mixed race woman. And I also have endured many obstacles in my life but I still have a burning hope inside me. This was a very creative project for me because I had to search around my apartment to find key pieces to recreate the portrait. Furthermore, it stressed the idea that art is everywhere. Of course all things are beautiful or appealing but not many people have the time to really search for it. Being creative in this assignment is not perfectly copying the image but making it my own expression with objects so close yet so far from me. I think this project is really cool and unique because it allowed humans with a love for expression and culture to join in as a community again at a time when that was not physically possible. Moreover, this challenge is just very fun for anyone, no matter the age, race, sexual orientation, etc.
• Red Turban
  Remaking an art piece as part of the Getty Art Challenge. The Getty Museum of Art created the challenge as a way to keep people engaged during the pandemic. This was created as an assignment for Susan Ludeke's ART 1910: Art Appreciation course.
• Creation of Adam
  Remaking an art piece as part of the Getty Art Challenge. The Getty Museum of Art created the challenge as a way to keep people engaged during the pandemic. This was created as an assignment for Susan Ludeke's ART 1910: Art Appreciation course.
• Keep Quiet
  This is a mask I created for my Art Appreciation class in fall of 2021. It represents my emotions toward the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Butterflies
  This is a mask that I created for my Art Appreciation class in Fall 2021. It depicts my feelings about the pandemic and how I have been able to hide my butterflies during the chaos and stress of COVID.
• Imitate an Artwork Challenge
  Hello my name is Ayonti! I’m a freshman was a major in nursing n hopes to one day be a travel NICU nurse. I took art classes in elementary and middle school but this is my first art class since then. I’ve always enjoyed art from simply coloring in a coloring book or taking time out my day to paint. I find it very therapeutic and relaxing. During quarantine I found myself having lots of time on my hands so I started painting simple things that I knew how to draw. For this image I had to use a scarf, fork, spoon, band aid and a shirt. For the head wrap I used a red scarf that I had, I used my roommates forks and spoon. I had to use a band aid to tape the fork to my face and I used a black shirt for my background. I put my phone on a timer to take the picture for me so I could hold the spoon. The art was I chose to imitated was a piece by Afarin Sajedi named “Chef Offer 2” created in 2014. I chose this specific piece of art because it was simple and I was limited to my resources because I live in a dorm. It’s a self portrait because it was a picture of me put together by myself. This project was creative for me because I had to search for things that look most similar to what the girl had on in the picture. This was a cool project for people when they had to stay home because it gave them something to do while still staying safe. This was created as an assignment for The Getty Museum of Art created the challenge as a way to keep people engaged during the pandemic. This was created as an assignment for Susan Ludeke's ART 1910: Art Appreciation course.
• Unmasking Yourself
  This is a mask I created for my Art Appreciation Class in the Fall of 2021. This mask includes the number of the suicide hotline. During COVID-19, there were a lot of people who felt very isolated and had no hope. Masking your pain can be an easy alternative, however, there is always help available.
• Mask or Imitate an Artwork Challenge
  Hi my major is nursing and I wanted to be a nurse because I love to be there for people who in need I will give my all to make sure you have it all so basically I wanna be some hero by helping them and caring for their needs. My interest playing sports such as basketball, track and softball. I usually play sports because of the competition because I love to compete that's just what I do. In the meantime I love to draw, drawing makes me express myself and how I feel so If I feel sad I will draw something sad because that matches my mood or when I'm happy I draw flowers or something that makes me happy. My background in art is basically being bored. When I first knew I can draw was when I was 10 years old I was in class and my teacher was letting us draw our favorite cartoon so as I was drawing my teacher said "WOW! that's really amazing" I just started smiling and when everyone was done she grabbed my picture and showed the whole class and my friend said "Can you draw my little pony for me?" I said "yes!" and that's when I knew I can draw. My process was kind of long that's because I wanted it to be neat as possible. I made my mask with some thick cardboard, I cut all my shapes out then glued it to the bigger piece of the cardboard which was the shape of my head that I wanted. Then after I just colored it with my markers It was a easy process as well. This inspired me because I love one line drawing so that kind of leaded me to this because the material I wanted to make a one line drawing mask were all gone. No because I would not able to breath but also yes because with this mask you don't have to wear it as close as the other masks are. It represent my identity by being the girl who wants to be pretty but also a crybaby so as you see on the cardboard mask you can see tears and lash with lip gloss. My mask is self portrait because its like another face in a picture so it basically suppose to look like a self portrait. I took this picture with my face covered and my hair out to show a portrait of me 2 faced the mask is how the world looks at me and the real me is what the people don't see. My mask is aesthetically because you would normally see mask like that for people who doesn't want the people to see the real them. My mask is unique because you wouldn't see anyone wearing a mask a cardboard mask today. It represent me because I usually care about how I look on the outside not the inside. This was created as an assignment for Susan Ludeke's ART 1910: Art Appreciation course.
• Respect the Red Stare
  My name is Aidan Kimbrell, I'm a freshman majoring in Sports medicine. I enjoy skating, you'll often see me riding around campus usually wearing an orange beanie. Whenever I'm not in class or skating I'm most likely in my dorm listening to music and trying to find new artists I enjoy listening to. Although I personally do not have a background in the arts, my father has always been very involved himself. He's always either working on new canvas paintings or carving small sculptures out of wood he finds in the Croatan forests back home. I want to dive into the world of art myself, I really enjoy the creative process and the freedoms that come along with creating your own work. My first step in recreating the art you see above, I needed to get fake blood to paint my face with. I also needed a blank background so that the face can maintain the viewers attention the entire time they look at the photo. In order to properly light my face I took a regular desk lamp and filtered the light through two different disposable face masks both so that the light was less warm and so I didn't go blind trying to take the proper photo looking straight at the light. The artwork I chose to imitate was Jenny Saville's Red Stare Head IV. This piece was started in 2006, not being finalized until 2011. I chose this piece because I've been fascinated with how raw and real Saville made the face in the painting. It is bruised, beaten, bloodied, with a look of pure anguish on the face. Saville herself describes flesh as "Ugly, beautiful, repulsive, compelling, anxious, neurotic, dead, alive." and I believe that this piece encapsulates all those qualities in spades. The way the blood contrasts against the pallid face is what appealed to me most aesthetically. Having very fair skin myself, I knew that although I could never hope to get the look of despair correct, I could match the contrast of blood to skin. Without revealing too much personal detail, this painting is a depiction of a helpless child from the perspective of an abusive parent/guardian and I can relate to that on a very intimate level. This project did not take that much creativity as far as all I had to do was apply fake blood and take a photo, but trying to capture the emotion was a very fun and difficult task. It required me to try a lot of different lighting options, frame my face so that is the only focus in the image, and conjure memories to try and match the face presented by Saville. I think this project was great, and for those who created the incredible masks, I'm sure it was very cathartic for them to make disposable masks, symbols for the chokehold that covid has had on all of us into fun and very lighthearted decorations to adorn themselves with. This was created as an assignment for Susan Ludeke's ART 1910: Art Appreciation course.
• COVID-19
  reflection of experience in COVID and how it is affecting the field I plan to pursue a career in. This was written as an assignment for Dr. Cheryl Dudasik-Wiggs' Spring 2022 ENGL 2201 Writing About the Disciplines course.
• Masked snowman
  During COVID even snowmen wear masks.
• NICU during the Pandemic
  During the pandemic parents must wear masks at all times while visiting their children in Vidant Medical Center's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
• Meme Reflection
  A personal reflection on a meme and friends I made during the pandemic. It was created for Dr. Kitta's folklore class.
• A Reflection on Memes and the Pandemic
  a meme that reflects my experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic, with an analysis of both
• MEME ASSIGNMENT
  This was created for Dr. Andrea Kitta's Folklore course.
• Pandemic Meme Reflection
  A personal reflection about the status of mental health during the pandemic in response to a meme made regarding the topic. This item was created as an assignment for Dr. Andrea Kitta's Folklore course.
• Reflection during pandemic
  The impact of the epidemic on my life: economy, socialization, lifestyle, distance from people, impact on international students, etc.
• How Covid-19 has Affected me
  The submission is about how Covid-19 specifically affected my life in school, family, and social events.