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Student Work - Elementary (Story of Life Lesson)

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Student Work - Elementary (Story of Life Lesson)

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High School Student work (Collage Lesson)

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High School Student work (Collage Lesson)

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Academic Advisor: Carol Horst
Southeast Missouri State University • River Campus Center 259E • (573) 651-2119 • chorst@semo.edu

Field Cooperating Teacher: Katie Hawkins
Chaffee Jr/Sr. High School • 517 W Yoakum Ave, Chaffee, MO 63740 • (573) 380-0308 • khawkins@chaffee.k12.mo.us

Field Cooperating Teacher: Andrea Schneider
Alma Schrader Elementary • 1360 Randol Ave, Cape Girardeau, MO 63701 • (573) 270-3342 •
schneidera@capetigers.com

Press Manager at Catapult Press and Printmaking Professor: Hannah Sanders
Southeast Missouri State University • (573)651-2397• hsanders@semo.edu

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Proficient in Microsoft Applications and Google applications.
Experience and Knowledge with Apple and PC products
Experience with and Knowledgeable with Smartboard, Elmo Projectors, iPad Apps, 3D printing, Tinkercad, Nearpod, iMovie
Experience with Adobe products, such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and Premiere Pro

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Solo Student Show at Catapult Press - “Among the Flowers” (2018)

Solo Printmaking show surrounding the concepts of body image and femininity

Clubbing with the Arts Juried Exhibition - Honorable Mention for “Among the Flowers (2018)

“Colorless” Exhibition - Southeast Missouri State University (2016)

“Face It” Exhibition - Southeast Missouri State University (2016)

Juried Exhibition - Southeast Missouri State University (2017)

Salon de Refuse - Southeast Missouri State University (2016)

Salon de Refuse - Southeast Missouri State University (2017)

Missouri Art Educators Association Member Show – Hilton Convention Center • Branson, MO (2018)

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Madison Ellers is a young artist who is using her work to express her body image issues in hopes of helping others.

The Chicago area native was Catapult Creative House Student Studios' Artist of the Month. The work shown in the exhibit called, "Among the Flowers,": is a visual representation of the deep struggles she had with her body image.

"I've had a really long journey throughout my life with coming to terms with my body," Ellers said. "In high school it used to be really bad. I would think about starving myself and throwing up all the time; it consumed my thoughts. I couldn't get through a day without hating my body and just focusing on it and crying about it."

Now a senior at Southeast, Ellers said the pieces for the exhibit started with a project from her printmaking class during her junior year when she had to create a self-portrait.

"I thought, 'What if I use this project as a way to confront this issue, and use it as a way to communicate that issue to other people," Ellers said. "That was when I was in an OK-ish place with my body. I wasn't thinking about starving or throwing up anymore, but I was still deeply uncomfortable."

Through making art about her body image, Ellers said she grew tremendously in how she saw herself.

"By making art where I am the art piece and my body is the subject, I could see myself through a less critical lens and see myself in a way that I view art. I think that was a very helpful way to see myself differently," Ellers said.

In her self-portrait piece it depicts her from the back where she is sitting down and you can see the rolls in her back, which is something she was self conscious about.

Ellers did not get serious about art until right before she came to college. She had always drawn, but mainly focused on depicting clothes and thought about becoming a fashion designer, yet she did not take her first art class until her senior year of high school. This was when she knew art was for her.

"I just got really obsessed with it. Then I thought I could really so something with this, and that's how I decided to really invest myself fully into it," Ellers said. "I regret not taking more art classes in school, but everyone has a different path throughout high school."

Ellers decided on art education as her major upon coming into SEMO and has not wavered from that. Once she began taking more advanced art classes and got further and further into her program, the more she fell in love with it.

"I've always wanted to do a career where I help people," Ellers said. I was trying to figure out how I can take my passion for art and my want to help people in my career, and combining them into art education seemed like the best way to do that."

Ellers is continuing to work on exploring body image through art.

"Now with my art I'm still continuing to do things about my personal issues with my body image, but I also want to focus on body image as a society and women in general," Ellers said.

Ellers is a member of the National Art Education Board on campus and serves as publicity chair. She was heavily involved in Pride on campus, but due to schedule conflicts, has had to step away from that group.

Ellers begins student teaching and graduates next semester. After which, said she plans to move back home to Crystal Lake, Illinois and find a teaching job, hopefully at a high school.

Ellers said she loves art education and wants students to express themselves in ways they do not get to in other classes.

"When I'm teaching art I'm not trying to make a class full of artists; I'm trying to make a class full of critical thinkers and lifelong learners," Ellers said. "I get excited about getting students to think deeply through art and find things about themselves."

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Southeast senior shares her deepest struggles through art

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Madison Ellers is a young artist who is using her work to express her body image issues in hopes of helping others. The Chicago area native was Catapult Creative House Student Studios' Artist of the Month. The work shown in the exhibit called, "Among the Flowers,": is a visual representation of the deep struggles she had with her body image...

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Artists' deepest struggles and loves are shown at First Friday with the Arts on Nov. 2.

Catapult Creative House Student Studios held a closing reception for its third Artist of the Month for Southeast senior art education major Madison Ellers and her exhibit titled, "Among the Flowers".

Ellers' exhibit is a series of prints conveying the struggles with her body image and her love of nature. Most of the prints are a relief type of printmaking, meaning they can be made over and over again. The others are a monotype of printmaking, that only allow for the original.

"I've always been drawn to things with the figure and things with nature. That's what I like making art about the most," Ellers said. It was part of the First Friday exhibits on display for November, which also included the works of James Palen and Dave Carter at the Glenn House.

Bringing together her loves of the human figure and nature, Ellers depicted how she saw herself through each stage of her journey to accepting her body. The process became a form of therapy for her.

"I've always had issues with body image, so I thought, 'What if I could use my art to make therapy for myself to confront these issues and hopefully grow from that, which I did," Ellers said. "By making art about my body I grew a lot in how I see myself, how I except myself, and how I love myself."

Ellers wants those who view her art to realize they are allowed to love themselves, as well.

"I want people to find comfort through my art and find comfort within themselves and in their

body," Ellers said. "I think a lot of women can identity with these same issues. I hope they apply those concepts of self love to themselves, how they view themselves, and how they are allowed to view themselves."

The exhibit bears the title of its main piece. Ellers said it is about how she is finally at peace with herself.

"By placing myself among natural imagery, among flowers and asserting that I am something to be loved, I am something that's beautiful, and I should see myself as that, and so should others," Ellers said.

Carter taught Palen how to paint, and Palen is a family practice physician who has only been painting for a year.

"I always enjoyed art, but I could never paint or draw but I could take photos. I've always wanted to do what I do in photography in paint," Palen said. "As I was slowing down the practice, I had more free time than I wanted, so I decided to take up painting and got Dave to be my instructor."

Most of Palen's work is of various landscapes but his wife is another subject that appears frequently.

"The things I choose to paint revolve around the things I like and photos that I take and like, and that mean something to me. They also were different in that that it would teach me different techniques," Palen said.

Carter has been painting for 50 years, but doing art for a total of 63 years and said he does not plan on stopping any time soon.

"I'm going to have to live to 200 because I have tons of paintings I want to do," Carter said.

Two of Carter's paintings were the beginning of a series he wants to call "Places of Rest." Other paintings were portraits of animals or humans.

Carter's work also begins with photos before being transcribed into paintings.

"I take tons of photos, which is why I have so many paintings to do," Carter said.

His piece titled "Amberwing Dragonfly", a close up of a stuck dragonfly on a fence used lots of color and showed a different view of what they look like.

"It's fun to me because that really is what it looks like, but when its portrayed a somewhat different way it becomes special," Carter said.

These exhibits will be on display at The Glenn House throughout the month.

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Arts Council Features Lots of Local Art for First Friday

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Artists' deepest struggles and loves are shown at First Friday with the Arts on Nov. 2. Catapult Creative House Student Studios held a closing reception for its third Artist of the Month for Southeast senior art education major Madison Ellers and her exhibit titled, "Among the Flowers"...