This picture above is my sculpture that would be put in at the University of the Pacific. This Sculpture is a great design that is meant for everyone to stop and stare. The tiger on top is the school’s mascot which is important and shows school spirit. On the tigers right foot is a scholarship roll, representing scholarship and how important it is at Pacific. On the rock above the side that we can see has all the Sorority and Fraternity names engraved into the rock, The sororities and fraternities on campus do a lot for the community and the men and women who are in these organizations do much more outside of their organization like working for Asuop, being a student advisor and just working all around campus.

         As well as being a great sculpture to put into the University it is also a great location, right in front of the DeRosa center in the water fountain we have out front. This is a perfect location because there are benches all around it making it easy to sit and look at the sculpture.  Also the DeRosa center is where all the students go eat so the sculpture will always be being admired. This is a great piece of work that everyone would enjoy looking at.

  

For the tiger part of the sculpture the tiger would be a steel material which would cost around $600-700 dollars. Then for the bottom part, what the tiger is standing on It would be a light colored rock, which would cost around $250. Then we would engrave all the sorority and fraternities names into the rock also the saying on the other side of the rock. The intire project would be about $9,000. We will also need to pay for workers to help me put in this magnificent sculpture. For my salary since I am a new artist I would say about $16,000. 
-Kathryn Wardenburg

Project #1

Dylan Peterson

Collaborative Arts 

May, 21 2012

My Backyard 

Sitting in the middle of my freshly cut lawn I am surround by roses, vines, fruits and birds.  Above me is a crape myrtle tree that acts as a dome, hanging upon the tree is bird feeders and wind chimes.  Not the biggest of yards but enough to escape the crowded city.  Living in Anaheim my neighborhood is on a grid so my backyard is a uniform rectangle.  Although my Mom has put much love into making our backyard special and one to enjoy.  

Starting to my left there is a Dog house, made by my Dad it four feet tall and and six feet wide.  Its white and is shaded by our orange tree that sits just right of the house. There are many oranges flourishing the tree.  Just next to the tree is a Japanese firecracker that shoots into the sky blossoming orangish red firecracker like flowers. The next 12 feet leading to the corner of my backyard furthest from my house are four white rose bushes, these are rose bushes on steroids because when they bloom there are almost more roses than leaves. 

Now looking directly at the corner of my backyard there is the small reminder of suburbia. A telephone pole thats hidden by climbing roses with jasmine. In my neighbors back yard there is a pomegranate tree that welcomes itself into my backyard, a deep green with red flowers waiting for October. As I pan to my right now looking at the back wall of the yard is an antique wagon dry cracked wood, that houses desert plants that are sharp and rustic.  On the wood fence is a lantern that holds candles at night lighting our patio.  My patio has a fireplace right in the corner of our yard in front of the light pole and roses.  In front of the fire place is a patio table with a red umbrella.  Imagine from where Im sitting in my backyard looking at the corner of the two walls that meet, one fence running west and the other coming at me running south towards me.

Next to the lantern and desert pants stands a water fountain which is oval shaped at the top, has three levels of waterfalls and has a column as the support, that is the bathing house to many birds.  Its the sound of running water that drowns out the city noises.  To the right of the fountain is another rose bush that hasn’t bloomed just yet and is twenty feet wide and15 feet tall its stems shooting out each direction.  Below the rose bush is a lavender bush that has hundreds of purple flower buds waving back and forth in the wind. The last thing I see before turning my head is a yellow bush full of daisies.  Kind of ironic because at my feet are my two dogs Beau and Daisy, they are white labs and love hanging out in their lavish oasis of a yard.

Project #2

Party Wave

-Dylan Peterson

Tiffany's Proposal

 – Mural Pond

I am presenting this proposal in order to implement a mural called the “We Express” which would rise out of a surrounding pond. The mural pond will be located near the Alumni House and under the oak tree. The idea behind the mural pond is to incorporate an area outdoors free to the campus community as an outlet to be able to freely express individual thoughts.

The mural will have a background with a lite blue and white color that will look like clouds. Faces intermingled with the clouds will focus on student both past and present who have made a difference on campus and or have conquered amongst trials and rocky roads to degree completion.  An example would be; students who have had children while still attending school, deaths of loved ones, injuries and scholarship. The mural will be a cloud of faces which will grow over time.  The pond will be built with rocks in a jellybean like shape. Within the structure of the pond there will be holes/slots that students are able to submit written expressions in. The pond will allow thoughts to be projected anonymously as a way to release stress and negative energy that does not openly offend other people. The pond will also give a relaxed environment a place to go that is calming and not confined by walls.

The concept of the mural pond is exclusive and innovative. It will take a lot of work and craft for it to successfully come together. Because the structure is for the students I would like to recruit a few who are in the art department to help build it. I will need workers to help, however by using students it would be more of a Co-Op or practicum that will give them the experience and knowledge in working with projects that are extensive and with a contractor.   The student that I recruit to help with the project will gain credits and hours that will also help them in the start to a great portfolio. The budget for this project is $38,000 which will include my payment ($15,000) the materials ($23,000). The materials that we will be using are all biodegradable. That will include the mural structure made up of eucalyptus trunks mounted together for a canvas, the paint, and the rocks that will be the foundation of the pond.

I would like to really implement this project because I believe that the Mural Pond would be something that is needed on the campus to encourage our students to express themselves in a positive way.

~Tiffany

Proposal

 This is a proposal for an artwork on campus. When one looks around campus there are many beautiful and simplistic sights to see, but nothing that really catches one's eyes. This is why an art piece that draws attention and sends a message is needed. My idea is to design a sculpture that sends a positive message about education. This is why I have come up with composing a sculpture made out entirely of books. The first step to education is the ability to read, therefore anything that is sculpted out of books will give the message of becoming educated for a good cost. I was thinking about making a giant sculpture of a chair, entirely out of books. The purpose of a chair is to rest, escape, and to give a person support. Therefore the combination of the two represent escaping into a new book, or reading to educate so one is able to support themselves in the future.
   The location of this sculpture would be perfect next to the library, because that is the first place to go when searching for any type of information, or just wanting to relax with a book. The materials used to construct this chair will be mostly books. Cement will also be needed so that the sculpture can be secured into the ground. Other essential materials and tools such as hammers, nails, glue, and sheets of wood would also be needed so that the sculpture can be sturdy and firmly constructed. It is necessary for the sculpture to be strong enough, because the public will interact with it by sitting on it, or being near it to take pictures and so forth.
 The overall cost of this project should not exceed over $35,000. $25,000 is what an Artist like me would charge to construct and design a project like this on campus due to its volume. Cement is $100 per square foot, therefore it should amount out to nearly $1,000.  Other simpler materials that will be needed including sheets of wood, glue, nails,and hammers should not exceed $5,000. Most of the books used for the sculpture will be donated, which they should not cost too much of the budget. Lastly we would need to construction workers to help lift heavy things, and securely place things in the right place. The last of the budget would be paid to these workers.
  This project is something that is well needed in a school environment because it sends out a positive message. When students are surrounded with positive messages in feeds to their motivation and helps them to do better.

-Karen Sadik

Project #3 Proposal & Design

The sketch above is for my mosaic design.  The swirls/waves throughout will be made of a combination of different blue tiles.  The lane line will be orange and black representing University of the Pacific school colors.  The water polo ball on the right will consist of yellow and orange tiles.  The 1851 will be in black. The goal will have a while frame and a black net.  The flags will alternate orange and black.

I decided that I wanted to do something to celebrate athletics by creating a mosaic wall along the entrance to the swimming pool.  Currently this wall is plain and entire swim facility lacks spirit, creativity, and enthusiasm.  The materials necessary will consist of broken pieces of ceramic plates, mugs, and bowls as well as cement based mortar to place between the tiles and adhere them to the wall. After my research I have found that the tiles if bought new would cost approximately $100 to cover the square footage of the wall.  The cement mortar would cost around $50.  The real cost in this process is the price of labor.  Creating a mosaic is very time consuming and would require a team of people.  The installation could be completed over a 2 day period needing a third day to complete the setting process and finish drying.  Approximately people would work on this project.  The cost of labor would be $5000.   The cost of travel and living expenses would not be included in the cost of labor but would be $300 per team member in a total of $900.  This would make the total cost of the project $6,050.  Because I am early in my career as an artist I can not see charging more than this amount.  Also after attending Pacific I would love the honor of contributing a piece of my artwork to the campus.

While entering the aquatics center people would immediately be greeted with school spirit and enthusiasm, as well as a bit of pacific history while observing this mosaic.  I would hope that this piece could set a precedent for future athletic complexes around campus to display a similar installation to show their enthusiasm for the presence of that sport.

-Hannah

Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a national memorial in Washington DC. Its purpose is to honor U.S veterans that passed away during the Vietnam war. Its simplicity captures the pure essence of its meaning, because of how much meaning and emotion can derive from something so basic. The memorial consists of 58,195 names of veterans.The wall  is made up of two 'gabbro' walls 246 feet 9 inches. The stone for the wall came from Bangalore, Karnataka, India and was deliberately chosen because of its reflective quality.When visitors pass by and look at the wall they are able to see their own reflections as well as the names which are engraved in it.  One wall points toward the Washington Monument, the other in the direction of the Lincoln Memorial, meeting at an angle of 125° . I am very glad that I was assigned to do the Vietnam Veterans Memorial because it is one that I am very familiar with. I feel like this memorial was designed in a very symbolic way due to its ability to capture a very sad moment in the lives of many, by turning it into positive energy and remembrance. 

-Karen Sadik

Kathryn Wardenburg Project #3

Krzysztof Wodiczko's: The homeless Vehicle Project (1988).
Wodiczko is an artist most well known for his large scale projections onto public monuments and creating works of art that he calls social actions.
The homeless project by Wodiczko is one of the most well know art projects produced for homelessness. These Homeless vehicles were produced for homeless men and woman all around New York City.

These carts that Wodiczko created were an artfully rendered political statement. These art vehicles provided shelter, safety, and a means of income because the vehicle was designed for collected cans, bottles and other materials. These art vehicles designed by Wodiczko were described by others as "illegal real estate".
Speaking of his project Wodiczko wrote that he wanted to draw away ‘attention from the work of art as dissent to the work of art as social action: in this case, the discussions and design collaboration with members of the homeless community to develop both a physical object and a conceptual design that would make their participation in the urban economy visible and self-directed.’
 
-Kathryn Wardenburg

Project #3 - Andy Goldsworthy’s Presidio

The art is from Andy Goldsworthy’s Presidio.  Presidio is located in San Francisco, and is a trending location for hikes and runs along the Bay Area Ridge Trail. The vicinity near and around Presidio where Andy Goldsworthy chose to place the pieces are distinct and is art that can constantly collaborate with the environment and transcended a great amount of beauty that constantly influences everyone who visits it. There is a collection of tree art that consist of two pieces in the forest. The Pieces were created to draw Andy’s Goldsworthy’s inspiration from places and create art from the materials found at the locations, such as twigs, leaves, and fallen trees “to make connections between what we call nature and what we call man-made.”

 The collection first introduced in 2008 is called the Spire. The Spire is built around the historic forest that was planted in the 19^th and 20^th centuries. The Spire is a sculpture which was constructed to include 35 large cypress trunks that are attached precisely together. Later in 2010 the Wood Line was implemented, located in a different part of the park than the Sculpture Spire. The piece is very elaborate and coincides amongst the woods of highline trees that are as high as high rise building. The Wood Line sculpture consists of eucalyptus logs laid out in a long curving line. The Wood Line intertwines in and out lying on the ground like a flat maze.  

I absolutely love the vision of the two pieces in the art collection at presidio from Andy Goldsworthy.  It was both innovative and thoughtful. I was able to connect with the pieces because they incorporate everything that I love, the outdoors of nature. Both pieces are elaborate and correspond to nature very well. I really admire the Wood Line maze like sculpture that intertwines in and out the forest with the logs. I thought that it was interesting that the sculpture Spire reaches higher than 90 feet in the sky and is uniquely placed to whereas newer trees that grow at the base will be vague because of its attractiveness. I also loved that by actually creating art with the tools that are already in the vicinity gives a more transcending illusion that plays with the chords of my emotions. I hope to visit the location very soon.  And I look forward to developing an art piece that does the same thing for our campus of the Pacific.  

Spire Sculpture

Wood Line Sculpture

 ~Tiffany

Hannah Raudsep Project #3

Revival Field:  Mel Chin

Mel Chin began this piece in 1990.  The goal of the revival field was to design a garden of hyperaccumulators (plants that can draw heavy metals from contaminated soil) over an old landfill site.  This 60 square foot plot rests on top of the Pig’s eye Landfill in St. Paul, Minnesota.  Mel Chin worked with scientists at the USDA to design the gardens and choose plants the could uptake the cadmium, zinc, and lead that contaminated the Pig’s Eye landfill. 

As you can tell in the images above the installation was al contained within a square wire link fence.  Within this fence was a circle fence.  The circle was divided into 4 quadrants each containing different plants to be tested.  This way the soil could be tested to determine which one of the plants was quickest in uptake of the toxic chemicals.  The four quadrants are clearly divided by the pathway used by the workers and Mel Chin. 

This project lasted 3 years.  It demonstrated that Alpine pennycress was the plant that best absorbed the metals, but none of the plants absorbed the metals quickly enough to achieve a significant cleansing in 3 years.

Second Nature

Second Nature

Book Cover



First Chapter- Flowers outdoor

Second Chapter - Flower Decor

Last Page of the book

~Tiffany

I chose to go with my second idea, with the quote "When a door closes, another opens". This is because I felt like it had the strongest theme compared to my other ideas. I tried my best in putting this together. I used pastels this time, so it would add more color to my project. 

 Front of book 

Side view, with open door

Inside of book, with a road map to life. Future, Opportunity, Success 

Back of book, with a key to open a new door in life. 

-Karen Sadik

For my altered book I decided to do the underwater idea. I decided to do this one because I love animals but also because there is a unifying color and theme that ties it all together.  

 This is the first page you open up to, there is jelly fish and underwater plants, and I put real sand from the beach on the bottom of the page.

 This is the middle page, with the fish in the middle, being held up by string, and he moves.

 This view of the book is looking at it from straight on.

 This is the third page with more Hawaii sand at the bottom of the page, and there is more sea animals on this page as well.

 

-Kathryn Wardenburg

Hannah's Altered book

I decided to not alter the cover.  To unify all of the pieces and pages of my book I decided I was going to draw all of the cutouts by hand and cut them out with an exacto knife.  First I spray mounted groups of 20 pages together.  Then I drew everything in pencil and then traced it in ink.  Then I colored the drawings with colored pencil.  Lastly I cut out each of the drawings.  

This is the view when the book is first opened.  The question marks border can be viewed.

 This next view shows the resume and business card drawing that supposed to represent the business school.  There is also a good view of the ASuop lighting .

This shows a good view of the drawings of my ASuop Arts and Entertainment designs.

This view shows the mask I designed for Delta Fusion and the logo.  As well as my Kappa Alpha Theta badge.

This is the last cut out page and is a drawing of burns tower and a rose garden border.

This is a side view of my project.