So far so good...

I have pretty much moved into my new place. I am missing a couple of things, but overall I am settled (and I have internet, which is the best!). So far I have made two trips to Cortez, CO to go to the only Walmart in the area (a GIANT Walmart I may add). I have also organized some of my classroom (which is only a two or three minute walk from my place). 

Pictures of the San Juan River:

I have also received my first gift from my Vice Principal's little girl!

Exciting things are happening!

I just recently moved down near the four corners:

I will be teaching art at the local High School, and so far what I have seen is very cool.

Hopefully I will post more soon.

-Becca

Way back in 2010...

I worked with kids at Youth Services in a collaborative art project. This was an amazing time and I learned a lot about teaching and making art with students, not just letting students do their own thing.

We called the project "The Amoeba."

Arts for Youth

 This semester I am working with the Arts for Youth Program at the Bennion Center. I am volunteering at local Elementary schools and helping teach art lessons to students (mostly crafty activities). This week the students made birds and other things and put feathers on them.

 This student made a flower.

Awesome things are a brewin'

I just wanted to post about printing things yesterday in my art teaching class. It was awesome, and now I want to do it over and over again.

The theme for my images is a clandestine laboratory and the title of this series is Red Phosphorous, a chemical that is used in the production of methamphetamine. This subject has interested me for a while now, mostly because of personal reasons, and the societal and environmental repercussions of the use and production of this drug.

Red Phosphorus 8 (2011)

Red Phosphorus 1 (2011)

Red Phosphorus 2 (2011)

Red Phosphorus 3 (2011)

Red Phosphorus 6 (2011)

On Futurism

"So let them come, the gay incendiaries with charred fingers! Here they are! Here they are!... Come on! set fire to the library shelves! Turn aside the canals to flood the museums!...Oh, the joy of seeing the glorious old canvases bobbing adrift on those waters, discoloured and shredded!...Take up your pickaxes, your axes and hammers and wreck the venerable cities, pitilessly!"
Marinetti, F. T. (1676-1994) 'The Foundation and Manifesto of Futurism' (from Art in Theory 1900-2000, p. 149)

This quote from an essay on futurism struck me as fascinating. It really captures anarchy (although I don't believe it) and the implications of what anarchy can do.

Body Worlds 3

Last weekend I had the chance to see Body Worlds 3 at The Leonardo in Salt Lake City, Utah. I had heard many great things about it, but what interested me most was learning about being healthy, as the website told me I would. I ended up not finding out much about being healthy, at least not information that I didn't already know (ex: don't smoke, don't eat fast food, etc.). The line wasn't bad when I got there, and the exhibit was wonderful, but I felt as though I didn't really learn as much as I thought I would. However the fetus room had new information for myself. I saw babies that were in test tubes during each of the weeks of pregnancy up to week 9 (and then after that they were just on display). I noticed that they were still very small and underdeveloped all the way until week 9, when previously I thought that the child was much larger at that point.
I also thought that the bodies looked quite interesting, the poses they had were phenomenal.
I don't know if it was worth the $22 I paid, but it wasn't a waste of time either. I just wish I had brought my sketch book to sketch the figures, as I had found out when I got there, artists could bring their sketchbooks in. But then again, I don't know if there would have been room to sketch considering how many people were stuffed into that exhibit. I am very glad I decided to do an earlier time than previously planned, because by the time I got done with the exhibit, the line was three times the length it was when I got in.

Oh and camels are a lot bigger than I thought. ^^