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Brianna Rebosio
I believe that everyone should be educated with equal opportunity and it should not be based on the background of the students. I will leave all prejudice outside of my classroom and if needed I will encourage students to do so too when I see a problem amongst them. The atmosphere I strive for is a positive one where students feel at ease. In the realm of art making, it is vital that the students are able to express their emotions and passion through the creation of artwork without feeling the pressure from those surrounding them. It’s a way for students to release their energy constructively and hopefully they gain satisfaction from the activity.
I anticipate that building relationships and getting to know my students is essential. By doing so, the communication between me and the students will flourish. Also, if I take the special care to sympathize with my students, then they will respect me more and we won’t have many conflicts within the classroom because we will have a mutual understanding. This connection is best made or at least put into action on the first day of class. The sooner that a teacher reaches out to students the better.
I think that I will incorporate both a variation of student-centered and teacher-centered learning environment in the classroom. Since I will be an art educator; I feel that there should be some freedom within the art classroom. I envision that not everyone will be able to do a medium and I will allow them to choose what medium they want depending on the requirements of the project if it is a choice based assignment. Students should have the chance to experiment with multiple mediums which could range from traditional to digital. However, there will still be a teacher created assignment or prompt for the art projects using the Enduring Ideas as a base. It is also an important factor that cross-curriculum connections are seen with the topic of projects. This keeps the students invested in the artworks that they create by allowing them to recognize real world issues and relevance to their lives. The use of technology will come in handy within the classroom especially when used with a set of younger generation students. The platforms aren’t foreign to them plus it’ll make the lesson plans seems more current. These technological resources are also a nice aid to teaching. I can post personally filmed demonstrations of certain art techniques such as a guide to mixing paint colors on YouTube on a channel exclusively made for the class to view if they need a reminder.
The past art teachers from my education career have touched my heart and I would love to do the same for my students. I even keep in contact with a few of my art teachers from high school while I pursue my degree at the University of North Texas. They are great mentors and they openly share their experiences as an art educator with me when I need a direction. They’ve set goals as to whom I want to be as an art teacher. I’m very grateful towards them for fueling my excitement regarding art. Without their dedication for embracing students’ talents, I would not be where I am today.
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Typically, my artwork will contain with one or more figure. In these works, it shows the figures’ interaction with one another or in the case of a single figure their interaction with the world around them. Sometimes the figures may not be interacting directly but their facial expression or body language displayed is key on revealing the mood of the artwork. I enjoy the unique appearance of each figure that I happen upon. This is the inspiration that I generally draw from.
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Much of my artwork is made based family members and close friends or people I am constantly engaging with. These bodies of work are slightly different in theme. I can input a certain characteristic that only I know into the forms of these familiar individuals. The artworks derived from people I know seem have more feeling and context. I try to understand their struggles and standpoints from where they come from in order to effectively exhibit their qualities in a lasting piece. The other direction of my art takes place around someone I haven’t formally met but I’ve observed from afar while documenting their presence. They unknowingly haven’t met me yet nor will they ever but I feel like I’ve met them. A spontaneous encounter really. There is an air of mystery surrounding those artworks and the people within them. They’re intimate in space but distant in retrospect. Ultimately, all I’m left with is my hollow memory and a few photographs of them that I would use to create piece from. The photograph could also be the work itself.
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The mediums I predominately work with but I am not restricted to are oil paint, charcoal, and graphite. I appreciate these mediums for their blending ability and potential as an easily build-able substance that can have many layers. As for the painting surface, I normally perform my art on a canvas or wooden panel depending on how much give I want my paintbrushes to have.
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Ever since I was a child I was always attracted to being creative. You could always find me making art, videos on VHS, or photographing everything. While I grew, I felt that I did not continue to make the lighthearted videos or photos anymore. As the stressors of life took over, it fell into my art as it often does with artists.
I began my college career in photography, that was my life. I always had a camera in my hand, ready to capture anything that caught my eye. My art expresses my stress and anxiety in my daily life. My art can at times seem very contrasting in terms of the materials I use and the meanings behind it. I have been influenced by other artists who play in their own works this way and will continue to experiment further.
I have attempted to experiment with portraying different emotions from different perspectives. With my installation piece, I represented the weight that the educational system has made me feel about me and my future. The box is made of lightweight aluminum, yet the twelve balloons will not make it budge. The balloon represents the opportunities that have been explained to me and the box represents the hidden burdens of what is in the way of those opportunities.
I want to connect my work to the social world because I intend to portray the stresses that we as humans face everyday with the social constructs that are placed onto us. The romantic drama, the workplace demands, the lack of sufficient mental health education and care. I feel strongly about the pressure cooker that people are born into and I have made art that reflects how it personally makes me feel inside.The main points of my work is to break down to explain how I perceive the world and the struggles I personally experience or inflict upon myself.
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For me, teaching is a worthwhile and fulfilling profession. Nothing is more rewarding then seeing a student smile and express pure joy from the work that they have created, or that “lightbulb” moment when a student finally gets something they have been struggling with. I remember a moment such as this when I was asked to spend a few hours with a shy girl named Hannah. It took some time, but I finally connected with her and brought a smile to her face through artmaking. I learned that all students have boundless amounts of creativity, yet don’t tap into it or feel constrained to do so. As an art instructor, I want to create a comfortable environment where all my students have the confidence and freedom to express themselves and tap into that creativity I know is there. I want students to not only think outside the box, but to not know that there even is a box. Also, I want to instill an appreciation and respect for not only art, but the techniques, skills, and history of artmaking as well.
My own art education was heavily based on the elements and principles of design. As an Instructor, I want to incorporate these but not focus on them. Instead, I want to focus building activities and projects around Big Ideas. I believe a student will learn a lot more about the world and oneself through artmaking based around such big and universal ideas. This will encourage students to be who they are and gain the confidence to show it, as well as, gaining valuable conceptual and technical skills. The ideas, or subject matter, will also connect to other areas such as math, history, and science. Students will be able to pull knowledge from various subject areas, along with their own life experiences that can ultimately influence what their art is about or tries to say. This will help the students understand how deeply rooted visual culture is in our lives, and develop an appreciation for the arts.
An important idea I want to instill in my students is that there is no such thing as a weakness, only hidden strengths. Students can be taught certain tricks to help them understand something or to make a technique or skill easier to do, but sometimes the student gets discouraged and loses confidence in their abilities. Take a student who sees drawing realistically as a weakness for example. I want to teach that student how to problem solve and think creatively so that they can turn around and use that “weakness” to their advantage. Problem solving is basically thinking creatively, and Artists continually run into obstacles where this is needed. Another concept I want to instill in my students is that their work is important and valued. My students should have the freedom to speak through their art and know that I’m there to listen and encourage them.
A goal of mine is for my students to feel accomplished and proud of the work they create. I plan to show my students artwork to the community, peers, and family. This will provide experience in showcasing their work and talking about the ideas they want to express to total strangers. Engagement over ideas, examination of their own artwork, and support from the people around them play crucial roles in students understanding and creation of their art. Theodore Sizer stated that “you can’t motivate a student you don’t know,” so my final goal is to learn who each of my students are. My favorite teacher I’ve ever had was my art teacher in high school, and it was because she truly cared about me as a person and my art. That is the type of teacher I strive to be. The teacher you have a connection with and feel comfortable discussing any idea or concept. A teacher that encourages students and gives them the confidence and freedom to unleash their creativity upon the world.
I explore a lot of different concepts throughout my artwork depending on the medium I’m working in. Time, relationships, anxiety, identity, and spaces are some main topics I have focused on recently.
In works outside photography, I explore family, relationships, and time a lot through the production of trees, branches, and roots. The seemingly never-ending branches and roots have always been appealing to me aesthetically and conceptually. Conceptually, the tree roots and branches remind me of time and how it is a constant and continuous stream that we as humans get to live in for a period. This infinite time starts me thinking about the mortality of others, as well as my own. My pieces including tree and root imagery always have an ending or stopping point to them. This is to signal that I understand that at some point there will be an end to the people around me and myself. It’s a fact as humans, and I understand and accept it. There’s no point in dwelling over it, so we might as well enjoy the beauty of the time we do get. I often include people in my life that have passed away in works such as these to enforce this idea and understanding of mortality. I want to always remember them and the time we did have together rather than dwelling on the fact they are no longer here. And sometimes instead of branches, roots, and tree imagery, I simply use the symbol for infinity to express the same ideas. I have always been obsessed with this concept of time and the infinity symbol since I lost someone important in my life when I was a child. This event has greatly impacted my ideas, and therefore, my art.
Specifically, in my photography work, I primarily work in a deadpan style while exploring interior spaces. Spaces such as Funeral Homes, Municipal Courts, and other places that all have something in common. Monumental events or moments, either good or bad, occur in these places. For some, these spaces represent important milestones in a persons’ life. For others, it’s a reminder of something tragic that has happened. The series in my photography work titled The Mundane Series, explores the strange relationship between those spaces, often described as simple and mundane, and the events that occurred in those spaces. All the images were taken with a wide-angle lens, shot in a deadpan style, and for the majority, taken at a distance. I think for me, shooting these spaces was kind of odd. I didn’t feel much emotions going in and shooting, but it soon changed depending on the space I was in. The spaces got me thinking about the events that happened, the people that were there, and especially the emotions being felt. This strange relationship between the look of the space and the events is a compelling concept that confuses me and compels me to delve deeper.
This deadpan style that I apply through photography, also comes through in other mediums. I believe this is because deadpan it is a style that describes me as a person and my ideas I want to express. Deadpan art for me, is an honest way of showing a concept or idea. I like the stark honesty in my personal art. Being honest is just who I am as a person, and such comes across in my work, especially when it comes to photography. I like the structured aspect of deadpan as well. It doesn’t require any manipulation or compositing to the image. It’s capturing something real and not trying to hide or shy away. It is what it is, and there’s not much to be done about that. An interesting and unique concept that comes naturally to me.
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I have always been fascinated with education and being able to provide knowledge where I felt fit. I held art classes at my home when I was in elementary school. While these classes were run by a very serious seven-year-old, I did not know what I was doing. The fact that I had managed to enroll one “student” made me so excited and I tried my best to make the class work for him. I want to do the same for the students I will one day be educating. I want to make art education interesting for them, allow them to express who they are, and to be able to let them see how much it connects us.
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What I admire about art education is how students unveil themselves through their creativity. This is important for humans to be able to do and it doesn’t always come easy. Emotional, political, and social standpoints are generally quicker to grasp when viewed visually. This is one reason why art has been with us as humans throughout our entire existence. Technology is rapidly growing and students need the knowledge and tools to be able to keep up. Technology in schools is very important because of this. In the art sense, computer programming is an amazing skill that students are able to learn at a young age and also explore how to create art using that skill. New media is something that our students need to know and understand so they can continue to explore and discover new processes themselves for the future of art.
Art education is an asset to the community. There are so many times I have seen artists contribute their skills to color this world. Young students volunteering their time to paint a mural for a good cause, while learning about the social and political impact of murals in the community. This not only helps the community but also empowers these young students with knowledge. Schools benefit from coloring their halls with student art and that in turn has the ability to instill confidence in those students. These reasons and many more are why I would love to be involved with educating students about art and how it can benefit us in so many ways.
