8th Photo Game

I thought it was such a fun idea that

I saw on Marci's blog, who saw it on her

best friend, Leia's, blog.

Rules:
1) Go to Photo files and select the 8th folder

2) Select the 8th photo in that folder

3) Post the picture along with the story behind it

This is mine;

This is from this past Christmas.

There are six of us female cousins and sisters who hang out and are close. One of my cousins, Amy, is currently living in Prague, Czech Republic working and exploring! this Christmas we all felt the absence of her wonderful personality. Christmas evening my parents were showing a slide show of there trip to Europe that thanksgiving before. this picture of Amy appeared, and we all shouted and laughed because if anyone knows Amy, they know her fabulous faces!

We were trying to take a picture with us making an

illusion of Amy being right there in the photo with us!

Amy we miss you and love you! XOXO

Park City with the Mitchells

Park City

My Family is funny!

We always have to stop at the Harlet Davidson

Sexy Becca!

Happy Mothers Day, from Jordan and Michelle!

For all the diapersthat you changed.For all the play dates you arranged.For all the tripsback and forth to school, for cleaning all the spit up and the drool. Why is there only one Mother's Day. You sould have at least gotten the ENTIRE month of May.

Happy Mother's Day Mom!

Love you XOXO

Graduation!

The first thing we did when my parents got to town was go to see my art show. They loved it! Mom even said that she wants to hang one in her house, which if you know mom doesn't have one ounce of color on her walls, so I was pleasantly surprised!

Even though the snow felt like it could ruin the day, it was too beautiful to not capture. My mom and sister got a kick out of it.

I thought that it was funny that as the most colorful department of the school we got brown as the Art major.

Close friends that I have had a lot of classes with through out my last couple years.

These are my three fine art teachers. Tawni (left), Catherine, and Marcus (right).

My two favorite guys!

This picture is dedicated to my cousin Amy!

Our mascot is the wolverine

My parents surprised Jordan and I with a new BBQ for my graduation. I have wanted one for the summer and my dad is a big time BBQ man and wanted to treat me to the best of the best!

After grad, we had more friends and family gather together at my house for dinner and cake. It was also Jason's (jordan's older brother) 30th bday and we sang to him too, Happy Birthday Jason!

My mom loved hanging out with the Basua kids, i think she is secretly ready for grand kids and won't admit it!

MORE TO COME.....

Finally!!!

Ok...I've done it! I thought that I would just make one huge post after the semester ended and I had for free time to post, but I've been too excited to share with you my accomplishments!

This post is on awards and my BFA show, to come is Moving and Graduation.

So, As you probably have known by now I was awarded the outstanding student in the painting and drawing area of the visual arts and communications degree for the 2009-2010 year.

All the fine arts teachers were to pick out their choices for the award and I heard it was unanimous; when your at school for as long as I am you begin to make great freinds and show hard work. It was a great feeling to know that my actions were noticed, I actually started crying in the deans office when I got the message. A teacher once told me that I needed to change my address to the school's painting room address.




This was the program from the awards banquet. I'm on the bottom left.

Close-up of the program. Bad picture of me!

A a graduate for the BFA (Bachelors of Fine Arts program, with the emphasis in Painting and Drawing) you must complete an Art show based on the senior work. I was to pick one fine art teacher to lead and guide me through the year as I constructed a series of 10-20 peices of work. A lot of time, stress, money, andtears went into this and it has been such a relief to have completed it. To make the saticfaction greater, I also won the jurors award for second place and a cash prize of $150!

This one of the flyers passed out for advertisement from the museum.

These few photos are of me in the process of hanging my work. Not as easy as you might think; a lot of equastions and code regulations.

Every artist has a "Artist Statement" to tell the purpose, background, and concepts of the series. This is mine that was hanging on the wall next to my show.

"I build paintings. My paintings feel solid and built. The physical compositional configuration is the structural field on which sediments of paint and material are massed, initiating the growth of each piece. It is the vitality of growth and decay within each structure and the energies inherent in these processes that I try to embrace in my work.
Texture is the foremost component in my paintings. In performance with raw materials as my instrument I shape and manipulate to make a rustic sound. I paint layer upon layer with harsh movement, jagged edges, and bold colors; it is like geological strata with cracks and discordance. It represents the movement and lines of the earth, all the way down through the painting to the sturdy wood support. But each new layer, however furious, is always infected and colored by the underlying one. Nothing is ever used right from the tube or exactly how I found it. What I have done is a rather coarse and abstract but it will smell of the earth. "

Next to my artist statement and work I got to have a Latrene with artifacts and inspirational nik-naks for the process of my art work.

My bestest art friend, Anna.

More besties!

I'm really sorry about the long length of this post, I tried keeping as short as possible!