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"The Last of Us"

2021

Acrylic

Independent

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"Sun's Rest"

2022

Acrylic

Independent

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"Moose"

2019

Acrylic

Independent

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"The Samurai and the Horse"

2021

Acrylic

Independent

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"The Calm Before the Storm"

2022

Acrylic

Independent

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Still Waters Run Deep

2021

Acrylic

Painting 1, Eva Mastandrea

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Masterhand

2022

Micron pen

Drawing 2, Birdie Kushner

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Armrest

2022

Micron pen

Drawing 2, Birdie Kushner

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Sprite x Light

2022

Graphite and Prisma colored pencil

Drawing 2, Birdie Kushner

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Storm warning

2022

Acrylic paint

Independent

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Happy flowers

2022

Acrylic paint

Independent

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Sick Goblet

Year of completion: 2022

Medium: Glass

Hot sculpting and blowing, Ruth King

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Stacking Up

Year of completion: 2022

Medium: Glass, glue

Cold Fabrication, Ruth King

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Mother and Child Goblets

2022

Glass

Hot sculpting and blowing, Ruth King

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Sunrise Goblet

2022

Glass
Hot sculpting and blowing, Ruth King

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Depressed Goblet

2022

Glass, glue

Hot sculpting and blowing, Ruth King

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Kelly

2022

Digital (Clip Studio Paint & iPad)

Painting II, Birdie Kushner

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Nidria
2022

Digital (Clip Studio Paint & iPad)

Painting II, Birdie Kushner

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Chiaroscuro

2022
Digital (Clip Studio Paint & iPad)

Painting II, Birdie Kushner

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Home

2022

Acrylic on Watercolor Paper

Painting II, Birdie Kushner

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Tribute to Torii Kotondo

2022
Digital (Clip Studio Paint & iPad)

Painting II, Birdie Kushner

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Growth Cycles
2021
Borosilicate Glass
Torch working, Ruth King

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Persona
2022
Fused Glass
Kiln Formed Glass, Ruth King
An expression of the outward self as presented to the world.

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Point Load
2022
Stained Glass
Cold Fabrication, Ruth King

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A Single Dose of Wonder
2021
Hot Glass
Independent, Ruth King
Inspired by apothecary bottles and the question "I wonder what goes in there?" Quarter for scale.

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Cupple
2022
Hot Glass
Glassblowing, Ruth King
Exploring the ideas of connection, completion, and codependence with blown vessels.

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Sensitive Content: This video contains content which some people may find offensive or disturbing

Viewer Discretion Advised

Southwestern Montana Turkey Hunting

2018

Video

Independent
This turkey hunt was done with my close friend during the spring of our freshman year here at western and was the first turkey that we had ever harvested together.

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2018 South Western Montana Turkey Hunting

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Lessons I’ve Learned as a Teen

2021

Digital video with sound

CRWR 240 with Dr. Borrowman

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Anonymous Patriot

2022
Acrylic on canvas, 5x7

Independent

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My brain yearns for empty, to have no thoughts
2022
Acrylic on canvas, 20x24

Painting 2 with Birdie Kushner

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Grief  2/2

2021

This song was my beginning and ending music for my intro to directing class for my play I directed "More than a headstone".

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Grief 1/2

Year of Completion: 2021

This song was my beginning and ending music for my intro to directing class for my play I directed "More than a headstone".

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Impossible year cover

2022

Independent

Original song by panic at the disco. I did this for an audition for a singing competition in Helena.

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Enough

2021

Independent

This is the one that I wrote. But it's only acapella. This song I wrote just for fun and then some things happened and now it means more to me than it did before.

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Blown Amanita Muscaria 2/2

2021

Blown Glass

ARTZ 245, Ruth King

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Blown Amanita Muscaria 1/2

2021

Blown Glass

ARTZ 245, Ruth King.

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Fun Guy 2/2
2021
Blown Glass
ARTZ 490 B, Ruth King

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Fun Guy 1/2

2021

Blown Glass

ARTZ 490 B, Ruth King

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Mushroomance: Matching Muscaria Goblets 2/2

2021

Glass, UV Glue

ARTZ 245, Ruth King

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Mushroomance: Matching Muscaria Goblets 1/2
2021

Glass, UV Glue
ARTZ 245, Ruth King

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Glass Dragon (Cornelius)

2022

Ruth King-Intermediate Glass Blowing 245- Plantabotimal Project sculpture must include an Animal, Plant, and Robot

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Sweet cup- cup reminded me of cake

Year of completion: 2022

Ruth King-Intermediate Glass Blowing 245- Two-part final cup project (Sweet 'n' Spicy cup)

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Spicy Cup

2022

Ruth King-Intermediate Glass Blowing 245- Two-part final cup project (Sweet 'n' Spicy cup)

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Twisty Cup

2022

Ruth King-Intermediate Glass Blowing 245- Independent
Twisty Cups are extremely challenging because you must work with the glass when it is extremely thin and hot

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Cozy Cup

Year of completion:2021

Ruth King-Intro to Glass Blowing- Final cup Project (outdoors cup)

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Harvest

2022

Plaster, Gesso, Acrylic

Sculpture 1 (ARTZ 251) (, Nathan Freeman

Pomegranates represent a lot of things, but none of them are negative. Rebirth is what I used them for. I think that... self-harm is not an end. It's okay to fall off and come back on the right track, it’s okay to be hurting, and rebirth doesn't mean unmaking, it’s just making yourself better.

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Harvest (details)

2022

Plaster, Gesso, Acrylic

Sculpture 1 (ARTZ 251) (, Nathan Freeman

Pomegranates represent a lot of things, but none of them are negative. Rebirth is what I used them for. I think that... self-harm is not an end. It's okay to fall off and come back on the right track, it’s okay to be hurting, and rebirth doesn't mean unmaking, it’s just making yourself better.

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Bison Skull and Wheat

Fall, 2021

Acrylics

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Deer and Flowers

Fall, 2021

Acrylics

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Overgrown Skull

Fall, 2021

Digital

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Deer Skull and Flowers

Fall, 2021

Acrylics

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Fox and Flowers

Fall, 2021

Acrylics

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Locus Coeruleus' Throne

Duct Tape, Foam Board, Hot Glue

ARTZ 490 Professor Ruth King

In this art piece I had refined artistic flow utilizing open geometric forms to activate the surrounding space. The sharp points are angled to keep viewers at a certain distance as they walk around the artwork keeping them in an attentive state to avoid being poked. On one side, these "spikes" almost float around the viewer, energy trapped inside, as if to jump and swallow them if they stand there too long. My intention is to stir a feeling of anxiety or tension within the viewer as they stand close to inspect the full form without the use of organic form, vibrant colors, or 2D art. The name “Locus Coeruleus” is for the part of our brain that is deeply involved with our response to stress and panic.  Named so as this artwork makes the viewer feel like they have to move a certain way in response to the anxiety of getting poked by the art and stressed at the angles that reach outward. Unless you are at a distance without the need to "react", you do not feel at ease investigating this form. Two separate sculptures create the singular “Throne” and both retain unique features and can stand as their own art piece. This is a highly interactive sculpture that can be set at any angle so long as it has at least three ground points to support the form. The arrangement is almost infinite and limited only by structural integrity, balance, and gravity.

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Welcome To the Cuphead Show

2022

Paper, Graphite, Ink, Contrast Enhancement

ARTZ 490 Professor Ruth King

One of my sketchbook assignments working with artistic flow, created while watching "The Cuphead Show" on repeat. Added my own twist to the art style of the show and hid little details in the background. In the upper left we can see Cuphead and Mugman’s home, down to the lower left we have King Dice’s “Mystery Prize Door”, and above on the upper right we see “Don’t Deal With The Devil”.

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Urban Tackybang

2022

ARTZ 490 Professor Ruth King

Inspired by my experiences walking around MT Urban areas and practicing artistic flow. In this piece I focused on trying to grasp the ideas, passing thoughts, and experiences during these candid strolls while avoiding “realism” to translate these. Car parts, trees, animals, MT scenery, streetlights, and shop windows have been abstracted to jigsaw and weave together to create a story.

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Hypnagogic Incubus (Other part)

2022

White Ink, Ballpoint Pen, Black Ink Pen, Black and White Charcoal, Color Editing

Independent

Inspired by a nightmare experienced during sleep paralysis. I've included both a color edit copy and colorless displayed together as one to portray the anxiety and sublime spumato that these dreams emit. You see my dream-self trapped atop a towering stalagmite bed, surrounded by a dripping, damp cavern. The shadows create the faces and forms that were roiling and disappearing before the apex event that made this dream into a terror. The black and white edit best translates the "on edge" fear and lack of emotional rationality, the softer color edit better emits the foggy numbness that comes with the lack of control in bodily movement.

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Hypnagogic Incubus

2022

White Ink, Ballpoint Pen, Black Ink Pen, Black and White Charcoal, Color Editing

Independent

Inspired by a nightmare experienced during sleep paralysis. I've included both a color edit copy and colorless displayed together as one to portray the anxiety and sublime spumato that these dreams emit. You see my dream-self trapped atop a towering stalagmite bed, surrounded by a dripping, damp cavern. The shadows create the faces and forms that were roiling and disappearing before the apex event that made this dream into a terror. The black and white edit best translates the "on edge" fear and lack of emotional rationality, the softer color edit better emits the foggy numbness that comes with the lack of control in bodily movement.

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Baba Yaga’s Apothecary

2022

ARTZ 251 Nathaniel Freeman

I was inspired by my own Babushka (grandmother) who currently lives in Uzbekistan, Russian folklore such as Baba Yaga, and also by the apothecaries and plagues in medieval Europe. The crow and rat clad in foreboding cloaks are meant to mirror each other as the more vicious and freeing side of death, the small skulls surrounding them like collected souls, and the bottles behind full of unknown contents. Each made with paper I created from scratch has a distinctive scent and texture that is unique to each other and placed with true intentions. The bird smells faintly of a flowered forest, the rat smelling of expired cedar berry, the potion bottles and skulls are a variety of lavender, coconut, and previously mentioned scents. I wanted this piece to represent the sense of false security and peace we have surrounding us in our daily lives. Including the idea of a unicorn because it is this pure and beautiful creature that does no harm and is the embodiment of innocence and perfection much like the illusion that our privileged society has veiled over us. The fact that it is made of paper makes it very fragile, like our unpredictable futures, like the frailness of the world, I had filled it with synthetic stuffing and lights to give it more structure and to imply the idea of hope that shines through this delicate illusion of peace. This is not limited to just the idea of a country that can suffer plague, or go to war at any time, but also on a personal level to each individual where anything can happen today to turn a life upside down or how within the vast universe the disappearance of Earth would have no impact. I avoided adding color, allowing the natural ingredients in the paper to really shine, the rust on the plaster mold used to create the paper form and flower pulp affected the color via chemical reaction creating the blue-ish splotches adding to the taboo of the “tainted” ideology of peace and innocence in modern day society. Although the skulls imply death, the mediums and colors add more symbolism for the viewer to drink in that stretches beyond the translation of the form.

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11”x14”
Acrylic on Canvas (2021)

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16”x20”
Acrylic on Canvas (2021)

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36”x48”
Acrylic on Canvas (2021)

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Broken

2020

Digital photography

Independent

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Mountains

2022

Monotype printing

Painting 2 with Birdie Kushner

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Spring Day

2020

Digital photography

Independent

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The Sun

2021

Digital photography

Independent

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Distorted Light
Plaster, Wax
2022
Freeman

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2022
plaster, paint
12x6
Freeman

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plaster, epoxy
2022
Freeman

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Nature Reflects
2021

Digital Photography

Independent

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Picture within a Picture
2021

Digital Photography

Independent

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Walking through time

2021
Digital Photography
Independent

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Pit Stop

2021

Digital Photography
Independent

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One Shot

2021
Digital Photography
Independent