Win a longboard

Here are pictures of the longboards that will be given away at the event! Come to the show and enter the raffle to have a chance to win one!

Mentors: David Moore

David Moore is even older now than he was when he wrote this. That's pretty old, for him. He is definitely not from Provo, but he will be soon. He is virtually impossible to track down, and few have seen him in his natural habitat. Scientists speculate that this may be due to his obsession with elaborate disguises. Try to find him at the show! (Hint: He will NOT be disguised as a member of the hip hop group Rascal Flatts.)


David's Artist Statement:

There is a seldom experienced internal silence that is thrust upon us in certain moments of unparalleled emotional intensity. Lungs filled hesitate before converting gasp of apprehension into sigh of relief, and the impending unimaginable is sentinel, an inexorably approaching solvent to any sense of self. In the void which follows this dissolution of the ego, pain is replaced with peace; confusion, with clarity; fear, with love.

Mentors: Shawn Fritch

Shawn Fritch is an art major with a focus in graphic design and a B.A. from BYU in theater art studies.


Shawn's Artist Statement:

To take a journey in art is to follow a path that is never ending;
you will never know all there is to know or see and discover all there is out there.
You will find yourself 10 years down that path still discovering new things,
getting excited and inspired by the most ordinary of things,
question the media to which we are exposed,
whether it be the design of a C.D. cover, a window display, the layout of a room
or even the shapes and lines of a shoe.
For those of us that choose art, it is not a career or a hobby, but a passion, a way of life.
We all see the world differently.

Mentors: Lauren Stratton

Lauren Stratton is a fine art major at UVU with a double emphasis in photography and illustration.


Lauren's Artist Statement:

I've always been a dreamer, it's the escape that I crave. I dreamt of being a photographer--until something I loved turned to a complete catastrophe, and it made my dreaming cease. And my life that was half bore and half dream turned into a complete reality. All I had ever wanted had changed. So I began to draw again, and I began to dream again. I began to breathe again. And now I know that even if I don't know anything else, I know this is what makes me--me.

Mentors: Rachel Haslam

Rachel Haslam is a photography student at Utah Valley University. She will be showcasing her BFA show in Summer of 2012.


Rachel's Artist Statement:

I never had many friends. Art is my friend. At recess in elementary school I remember figuring out you could draw with bark, or wood chips, on cement. I made beautiful designs on the sidewalk by myself. Art has been my escape. It understands me. I want to see the beauty in the world, seen or unseen, which is why I became a photographer. “Maybe this is what I'm good at?” Art doesn’t judge me. It will always be my friend. The camera accepts anything I see.


Visit Rachel's websites here and here!

Mentors: Danaë Davis

Danaë Davis is a fine art major at UVU and loves print making.


Danaë's Artist Statement:

Creating art comes to me through forms that I feel I can express a distinct facet of my life; I exist, I am human, in nature and in the world, to which everything I am connected. I am so small, and my time lasts but a fraction of a second on the planet I thrive upon. I see beauty in the patterns within nature on the path have chosen to travel. I exist in a constant state of flux, ever winding, unraveling, churning, building up and breaking down. I am forever moving, ever living, ever changing. My work expresses the love for the nature in a place on earth where I find peace, a place where dusk and dawn become one timetable shift in light and darkness and the smallest of life becomes colossal.

Mentee Profiles

Emily H:
I like art because you can express yourself and your feelings in it. I like it because when drawing you are practically making up your own world. It shows who you are. You can make any kind of story with art. That’s why art is important to me. It also gives me something to do. It’s very entertaining and fun. Just think, if there wasn’t art, there wouldn’t be things such as Disneyland. Disneyland started by a man who drew. Disneyland is based off of those drawings. Without art, the world would be boring to me.

Sarah H:
Art makes my imagination come to life. I don’t have to pick and choose with art. I get to create it. One of the best things about art is everyone single person has their own style of it. Art helps me express my feelings. When I don’t know exactly what to say with words, I can say it with art. Art is a part of my life and always will be.

Sarah L:
I love art because I am able to express myself and find a way to enter my imagination and show others what I create. I can tell stories and teach lessons in ways that just words can’t quite describe. A picture is worth 1000 words.

Bruce:
I like art cause it expresses feelings, is creative, and just amazing.

Czar:
There is a lot of power in music. I want to know if what we see is Real.

Jonny M:
Hola my name is Jonny M. and my favorite type of art is music!!!

Kai:
I like to draw. I like to trying to get better when I draw animals, like making them more realistic. It is my talent sometimes. I like art because its really colorful, I love color. I see a lot of color when I paint and I really like it because its pretty. Art makes me feel happy.

Alyson:
Curiosity is the reason why I choose to study art.
The exciting little journeys art takes me on when creating,
the little stories that make up the ordinary of life.
Studying art has made me more aware of the world around me.

Jacob:
Creative activities have always drawn my attention,
from a young age I would draw, colour, cut and create!
I'm still very much like this, I find myself losing track of time and working into the small hours.
I enjoy the challenges which design presents and communicating my ideas as solutions.

David T:
I like to draw things with pens or on the computer too,
because it is cool to make something out of nothing but your ideas. I
hope art is fun when I take art classes, I think it should. So far I
like it lots!