Stella's Art Blog

Angela Haseltine Pozzi is an artist and teacher who creates her work from plastic found on beaches. Using litter, she builds life sized replicas of animals to illustrate how pollution affects them. Her pieces are vibrant, colorful, and creative, but have a serious point behind them. She founded the non-profit organization "Washed Ashore" to help bring the sculptures to classrooms and zoos across the country.  As an aspiring art teacher/someone who deeply cares for the environment, I fell in love with these pieces and Pozzi herself. I love how she is both saving the earth and educating people through her artwork. I aspire to achieve the same thing some day. 

This week and the week before, I put most of my focus into my college portfolio. I carefully selected works I felt best represented my skills and what I would want an admissions committee to see. I selected a balance of both personal work and technical assignments. I submitted these portfolios to both MassArt and Lesley University and was careful to include a variety of medias ranging from digital work, 3D work, and traditional 2D work. I am proud of my portfolio and excited to see the results I get from colleges. 

Hayv Kahraman is an Iraqi artist whose work explores topics such as gender and femininity in relation to her homeland and experiences as a refugee. Her mediums span from drawing, painting, and sculpture. Her style is composed of muted tones contrasting with either shocking and unsettling scenes or bright colors and patterns. She does stray from this style in some more simple pieces, composed of black line and color on a small canvas or a block of wood. While her styles remain for the most part constant, she explores a variety of different subjects in her pieces, most relating to the treatment of women in Iraq and in the culture. She doesn't hesitate to exhibit the horrors of a patriarchal society- her pieces show the suffering of women and the insecurities cast onto them, painting women as mere dolls to be toyed with.