A young girl in Mumbai, India spent her days at her babysitter where she happily played with an assortment of art supplies. At an age many kids play with action figures and dolls; young Ketaki Pokeyar was already exploring and enjoying the world of artistic expression. These early experiences with the arts and the support of her parents is what spurred a life-long passion for all forms of art and her career as an artist of many mediums. Today, Pokeyar lives in Elkader, Iowa with her husband Tony Hauber, who is starting his own video game company, and their dog Margaret Thatcher after living in San Francisco for over five years. Pokeyar is currently working on starting her own art studio where she will provide a variety of services. In particular, Pokeyar plans on offering web design, graphic design, and painting services. Pokeyar is currently trying to establish a market in Iowa and make contacts in …show more content…
How does the internet help young artists make contacts and showcase their work? Can artists reach large audiences while living in small towns? What can young artists learn from Pokeyar’s journey? Pokeyar is an excellent example of a passionate artist and experienced designer with a wide variety of skills. I have found her personality to be very friendly and talkative, and she has a very entrepreneurial mindset towards art and design. I am certain I can reflect her personality and mindset in this article and artists across Iowa could take some inspiration from Pokeyar. My personal relationship with Pokeyar, her husband, and members of the community would allow me to conduct in-depth interviews with pertinent sources. I could have a polished rough draft ready within two weeks of acceptance. I am flexible based on the needs of the magazine and I can make any adjustments
Alex Pardee’s horrifically moving artwork has captured the interest of many around the world. His unique style has inspired that of many upcoming artists to create equally disturbing and fantastic pieces. Not only does he have thousands of sketches, paintings, and short stories to shed light on the warped convolutions of his mind, but he has a less than perfect back story and wicked sense of sarcasm to verify it. That’s all part of what makes him so fascinating. An intelligent and talented man, Alex Pardee is an icon of persistence and individuality for thousands upon thousands of aspiring artists and seemingly lost inhabitants of
Lina Vilkas is a Lithuanian teenager during World War II. She’s an intellectual, innovative girl who’s bent on surviving. Lina enjoys drawing and uses drawings to express herself and communicate her stories. Furthermore, she has a good heart, always thinking about her family and friends’ welfare. Through all that she
Anai Harley is a Florida native and a 2015 graduate from Bennett College. Anai attained her Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Marketing and Management. Though Ms. Harley majored in Business, she’s always been a lover of all things artistic. In high school she always took painting, fashion, and pottery classes. Fall semester of her junior year in college, she really discovered her true gift as an artist when she enrolled in a Painting and Printmaking class while studying abroad in Cyprus. In that Painting & Printmaking class her final project required her to make wall displaying with a variety on paintings. Following graduation Anai aspires to eventually open her own Art Gallery and continue to share her art
In this book Kiki Smith’s background is shared and broken down for the viewers to learn a different side of the artist. Allowing the readers to learn about her family and how both of her parents were also artist as well. The book also explains her work and why she chooses to reflect on the topics she created her art based
From beginnings with inspiration from the Mary Jane Shannon grade threes to the more versed hands of the GP senior artists, sparks of creativity were nurtured into brilliant works of
At the age of fourteen she had already exposed her art to the public and has now added her collection to “Craft Jam” which is an experimental space for art and music located inside the restaurant Jasmine Thai Cuisine here in Bakersfield. To her, art is an artistic outlet. It calms her down when she’s angry or upset or when she’s bored, she takes out a pen, pencil, or brush and puts her feelings and perspective on paper. Art is her happy place. Although she was raised by a
It turns out Coudal isn’t the only one who loves pretty girls and fish. This allowed Coudal to pair artistry and entrepreneurship in a way that is both creative and profitable.
Yayoi Kusma’s art work has been a great influence on two of the most important art movements: pop art and minimalism. Her work ranged from paintings, performances, installations, film and fashion. Yayoi Kusama, who was a self-described “obsessional artist”, was born on March 22, 1929 in Matsumoto City, Japan. She was born into a prosperous and conservative family. By the age of ten she began experiencing hallucinations and drawing her famous polka dots and net motifs. She used watercolor, pastels and oils. She had little formal training, at around 20 years old she left home to pursue her career at Kyoto Municipal School of Arts and Crafts for one year. While there she studied nihonga. Nihonga is the traditional Japanese painting technique.
Yayoi Kusama was born in 1929 in Matsumoto, Nagano in Japan. She is one of Japan’s most remarkable contemporary artists. People widely named her “Dots Queen”, since her early works showed the unequable arranged of completely all polychrome polka dots on surfaces of ordinary objects, and showed throughout multiple media in the majority of her artworks, which was a brand new technique that Kusama had been brought out. Then the polka dots are influenced by her visual neurological disorder that found out when she was ten. For instance, Kusama started to create installations with polka dots by randomly placing dots all over a room: on the walls, the floor, on furniture in the room; the dots are in various sizes and colors. Her unique art style still
Warsaw is the capital and biggest city of Poland. It remains on the Vistula River in east-focal Poland, approximately 260 kilometers (160 mi) the Baltic Sea and 300 kilometers (190 mi) from the Carpathian Mountains. Its populace is evaluated at 1.750 million occupant’s noteworthy metropolitan territory of 3.105 million inhabitants, which makes Warsaw the ninth most-crowded capital city in the European Union.
Art murals are displayed on walls of Schools,Libraries,Churches,Museums and more. Art murals are publicized to inspire people , or to influence or represent a cause.The art mural here at IRHS was painted to inspire children,show them famous art pieces and to represent the art hallway as the art hallway. The mural contains the famous paintings water lilies,starry night,the persistence of memory, guernica and ends with a self portrait of frida Kahlo. Senior April Sedano, who has been in 2D art for 3 years said, “we wanted to livin up the art hallway ,so we thought about the most inspirational artist...so it's something people would recognize”.
Yayoi Kusama states in the exhibition catalog interview that her monochromatic works helps to “express to viewers inviolable dignity and inviolable life of humankind as a mystery” (Yayoi Kusama). In her new series of prints it contain various symbols like polka dots, free lines, eyes, Kusama’s portrait, shoes, books, hearts and a single handbag; all these clearly symbolize her reflection and theme of the new series of
Born in California, Yony Waite’s venture into the Kenyan art scene is both distinctive and matchless. Her journey into art or painting and exploration in art, is marked by her studies in Japan in her adult years, after her completion of a university education art degree from the University of California as she took up Japanese teachings and the techniques and styles of art, such as Sum-ie brush painting, which is a style of painting where nature is capture on canvas with dark charcoal, as well as learning in Japan Chinese calligraphy and minegei, which is contemporary craftwork.
To create a stronger media presence, new campaigns will be created to foster more regular posting and customer interaction. “Artist’s Choice of the Week” is a platform for Pandora’s Playground tattoo and piercing artists to capture their favorite piece of work from the week on Facebook and Instagram. By featuring these exemplary tattoos and piercings on social media, fans will be able to better understand the quality and scope of Pandora’s Playground’s work. Similarly, customers can submit their tattoos and piercings
A growing trend amongst new artists is crowd funding. This refers to audiences making contributions and/or micro investments in new creative ventures (Jenkins, 2013). For example, websites such as Kickstarter, GoFundMe and Indiegogo are platforms for independent artists to solicit and collect funds. The funds from these campaigns are used to finance record production, launch tours, create merchandise and all other costs artists need assistance with. These websites are helping change the path of becoming a recording artist. On the positive end, artists are having more control over the content they produce and are not reliant on large music labels for support. By using crowd-funding websites this eliminates the search for a record label and complying with the labels creative demands and time constraints. On the negative side, a recording contract guarantees all the costs and distribution to the labels networks to be covered so it is more challenging for the artist to build a fan base to support their funding efforts.