Art 1-Period 1: Process and Performance Art by Ms. Smith https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9 November 2016: Art 1 students reflected on specific childhood memories and used them to inspire a process or performance based artwork. en-us 2016-11-02 13:54:34 UTC 2025-03-18 01:05:21 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Clouds.png My Art Project (Anna Gibbons) https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/135039451 I carved 15 diamonds into a pumpkin to represent the 15 Halloweens I have celebrated in my lifetime. Each diamond represents one Halloween, and the candle allows me to look at my art, which reminds me of all the fun things I have done on October 31.]]> 2016-11-03 12:02:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/135039451 Me, Myself And I https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/135331745 (Arjun Jale)

When I was young, most of my time would be spent playing outside on the playground near my house. I always enjoyed hanging out with my friends outside. 

I loved playing on the slide, monkey bars, swings, balance bar, etc. I represented this by taking multiple photos of me on my favorite places on the playground and superimposing them together is Photoshop. I had to carefully consider the placement of the camera, the manual adjustments of ISO, shutter speed and aperture. Then I cut myself out of each picture and placed it on top of an empty picture. There were some small misalignments so I then used the eraser and stamp tool to fix these errors. ]]> 2016-11-04 11:35:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/135331745 Sleepover https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/135333170 (Yui Sakai)
Japan is famous for animations so I made an flip book to represent having a sleepover in Japan. In this flip book we are laying down on a futon and talking. 
We both talked about going out of our country since we were little.My  friend and I are both an exchange student this year so I used the theme of "travel" in my movie.]]> 2016-11-04 11:42:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/135333170 My C-A-M-P-F-I-R-E-S-O-N-G SongĀ šŸ”„ winstonlowe53 https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/135335348 (Winston Lowe)
My childhood memory was about me sitting around a campfire eating marshmallows. I often had a map in my hands that was hard to read because the only light I had was the light of the fire.
For the performance art aspect, I melted the marshmallows and glued them to the map on specific spots where I have been camping, in Philmont, specifically. It represents my love for eating marshmallows and my memories at the campfire.]]> 2016-11-04 11:51:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/135335348 Sledding Down https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/135335520 (John Yannone)
My specific childhood memory was sledding when I took trips to the mountains and my struggle to push myself down the hill.
I have represented my memory in artwork by using my childhood memory props from my art homework and other additional childhood sports that I would play with and put them into the sled, being pushed down the hill. However many times the materials fall off the sled representing my frustration. I used process art to show the movement and actions of the sled to show the process in which I went through to sled down the hill.]]> 2016-11-04 11:52:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/135335520 Blissful Blue rahulreddy_usa https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/135335990 (Rahul Reddy)

When I was young, I used to regularly take trips to the Aquarium. I was always mesmerized by the aquatic animals, and longed to swim amongst them as a child.Ā 

For the performance art aspect, I have presented myself as one with the aquatic animals using another concept I love: Computer Programming. The purpose of this program is to represent my desire as a child to swim among the sea animals. ]]> 2016-11-04 11:53:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/135335990 Baseball Pride https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/135336059 This piece is called baseball Pride because of how proud I felt when I would show my dad how far I could throw the ball. The videos of the first person view are to represent my dad catching the ball and me showing how far I could throw the ball when I was younger. The pictures are to show the distances and give a better look at how far the distances actually are. The song is the song my dad andĀ I used to listen to before my baseball games. The pictures of me in my baseball uniform correspond to the year they were from according to the distance year before it. ]]> 2016-11-04 11:53:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/135336059 Gratitude https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/136227681 (Hafeeza Mughal)
This piece depicts my transition to an advanced brown belt karate so many years ago. During the weekend long assessment, I was evaluated on my fighting ability, technique, and knowledge of Japanese ceremonial culture. To represent my fighting skill I punched large pieces of white paper, which created the rugged edges and holes. The colors behind the white paper represent my past belts, as well as the experiences and lessons I gained through each step. I orientated the colors around the black center to emphasize the importance and honor of becoming a black belt, as well as to symbolize how each belt contributes to achieving black belt status. Finally, the fact that the colors and damaged white paper are all consolidated into one area, speaks the cultural component of the process. Unity and harmony of different components of nature and life, is a major idea in Japanese culture that I learned. So, despite the rough edges and years of hard work leading up to this assessment, there is still something to be learned and appreciated: gratitude, gratitude for how long and hard I worked to reach that point and for how much longer I still have to go through.Ā ]]> 2016-11-08 20:05:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/136227681 Spider-man https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/136257897 (Kurt Holz)
My childhood memory was the excitement my friend and I used to get when we used to always watch the first Spider-man movie. I represented my memory by recreating a scene from the movie where Peter was just figuring out his powers and having webs all around his room. The process of me making this was to tape string to parts of my room to look like the movie. It was really fun to make and filled me with excitement to see the aftermath of all my work. The results looked very good and really shows that I care about these movies, and that even though they made my childhood, they also made me the fan I am today.]]> 2016-11-08 22:22:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/136257897 Falling in a lake https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/136363961 (Jeremy Barker)
My childhood memory is of falling into a lake near my house. I represented this by dropping a wire figure wrapped in paper symbolizing me into a container of water, symbolizing the lake, so that the paper would fall apart and disintegrate in the water, showing the emotions of betrayal of my balance and the hopelessness of gettingĀ soaked and still having to walk home after.]]> 2016-11-09 12:39:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/136363961 Freedom https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/136365099 (Yomna Nassar)
My childhood memory is of when I was a child and I did dance and gymnastics. I wanted to recreate the feeling I felt as I lept in the air, with total freedom in the air. I documented this feeling by dancing and doing certain moves while holding paint bottles in my hand. The paint then documented my movements on the paper as I moved, leaving a pattern of swirls and different colored leading lines on the paper.]]> 2016-11-09 12:44:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/136365099 Splatter Skee ball https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/136365378 (Sonia Khondokar)
When I was younger, I would often visit my grandparents in New York and it became a tradition for my grandfather to take me to Chuck E. Cheese every time. I always looked forward to this time with my grandfather while we spent the day winning tickets and prizes. Even once I became older, I cherish and miss that time I spent with my grandfather. 
At Chuck E. Cheeseā€™s, skee ball was one of my favorite games to play. At first, I could never throw hard enough to get the ball into the holes, but after many failed attempts, I finally was able to score some points. My artwork is a depiction of me playing skee ball with my grandfather and my repeated attempts to score.  

]]> 2016-11-09 12:45:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/136365378 Childhood https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/136366680 My memory was of me jumping off a swing set and landing in the grass. 

I represented my artwork through taking a photo of me in the air hopping off a swing set. I decided to use this as my piece of art because when I was a kid I used to do this a lot and i wanted to convey a memory through art. When taking this photo I left it almost completely natural since I wanted to convey my memory in the most raw/realistic form.]]> 2016-11-09 12:49:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/136366680 Childhood Memory-by:kate colvin https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/136367093 My memory was that every Christmas, my family and I would go up to Vail, CO (in the mountains). We would always eat treats by the fire while the snow flurried outside around up. For my artwork, I burned a chocolate treat for each year that we went to the mountains for Christmas, and I had an ice structure next to the burning treats, representing the snow. I then took the burnt/melted chocolate and used it to write merry Christmas on a sheet of paper.]]> 2016-11-09 12:51:46 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/136367093 Pupperoni Pizza https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/136370608 This art work is meant to represent the day when my mom brought home a puppy while the rest of my family was eating pizza. To create this "masterpiece" I grabbed a pepperoni piece and a slice of pizza. Next I tore the pepperoni into several smaller pieces and arranged them into the shape of a dog.]]> 2016-11-09 13:04:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/136370608 Working on Cars dylancollen https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/136596215 (Dylan Collen)
My memory was when i was younger and I would help my dad work on cars in our garage. For my art project, I took used engine oil from the truck which will be my first car and used it to paint a picture and print car parts that would relate to working on cars. I brushed the oil on the car parts and pushed them down on the paper to leave a mark that would resemble the shape of them.]]> 2016-11-09 23:19:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/136596215 My childhood https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/136696702 When I was little to this very day jumping on the trampoline and when I get tired looking at the sky was always a relaxing memory to me. Sometimes I would go with my sisters and have fun and try to find shapes in the sky. Whoever could find the most realistic shape first would "win" the game. To represent how much time I used it I made them time lapses. And to represent the amount of clouds I also used a time lapse.]]> 2016-11-10 12:48:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/136696702 Overprepared he_dick https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/136699030 My memory was going to and from school for the very first time. I packed so much into my backpack that I struggled to drag it onto the bus. It was a complete disaster of a day. I tried to represent the contents of my backpack with bricks and the overall frustration of the day by missing the bus for the first time. My product is coming home to drop the stuff inside my backpack, torn papers, broken pencils, and a bent journal


]]> 2016-11-10 12:58:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/136699030 My Childhood kchant89 https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/136702604 My childhood memory was fingerpainting. When I was a child I would fingerprint all the time at the same table. I represented this memory with a scene of me fingerprinting like when I was a little girl. I used the same brand paints and the same smock (basically an old t shirt).

]]> 2016-11-10 13:11:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/136702604 Childhood Memory https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/136927397 (Peter Scrandis)
My memory was when I was about 2 years hold and got my first splinter. I was at my baby sitter's house playing on her playground. While I was running my hands across the railing of the playground I felt a sharp pain in between my thumb and my index finger. When i got home my dad used tweezers to remove the splinter from my hand. This stick hand represents my hand and how the splinter made a mark on my life.]]> 2016-11-11 03:25:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/136927397 Chuck E Cheese https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/136929397 (Roshani Patel) 
My childhood memory was playing at Chuck E Cheese often. This Project is about me playing different games and making game motions through paint. I used a Basketball, skiball, and a hockey puck covered in paint to either shoot the ball, roll the ski ball through the paper, of use the puck to play air hockey, and a mini ball for bowling. All items were covered in paint and left marks on the paper as you see in the end of the video. In the middle is a resemblance of tickets and prizes by using circular ribbons and paper. ]]> 2016-11-11 04:04:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/136929397 Family Tree jennifer_e_smith https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/136983163 ( Yelena Mongbet)
My childhood memory is growing up with my family as a kid and spending time with them. Basically every weekend I went to Chicago to visit my cousins who are more like my brothers and sisters, my childhood moments were all spent with them. In my artwork I have represented some of my favorite moments with my family and sort of created a timeline between them. The pictures at the bottom are black and white because they are not me just yet, and then I incorporated color to show how my life became more colorful. The process I used to create my tree was thumb art. I used my thumb prints to create the leaves of the tree and this also represents how numerous my family is. I chose the tree because its branches are connected just like me and my family are.]]> 2016-11-11 12:22:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/136983163 Vintage Charm abarto5086 https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/136988701 (Abby Barton)
My childhood memory is remembering the times the i was little and loved to play dress in my play house. For this project, i created a small "play house" and filled it with vintage charm. I used items from the past and from the present to make this project complete. Throughout the box, i put up vintage wallpaper and  wanes coating to give it a vintage look. I also added fairy lights on top to show the magical side of being a child. On the left side, i has a chalk board with polaroids surrounding it. The polorids are primarily of my friends and i and it shows how I've grown as a person. In the middle i have one of my favorite dresses from kindergarten and it remembers me of all the princess play i used to do. On the left i have a little droor filled with containers of sparkles because i absolutely loved aandything sparkly. There is also a merrier frame which represents how my appearance has changed throughout the years. This project was a mix from the old to the new and it reminds me of how my childhood shaped me to be the person i am today]]> 2016-11-11 12:54:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_e_smith/jdqxaxcnjm9/wish/136988701