Hello all of you people out in the inter-webs, (aka all the people I'm friends with on Facebook who have been suckered into reading this). This is just a little introduction of myself and what you can expect to find here in the future. For those of you who do not know, I am a photographer based in Milwaukee WI, where I have lived for the last (holy crap its been) 9 years. I graduated from The Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design in 2013 with my BFA. My thesis focused on a personal illness taken from a photo documentary style, (it's on my website, you know you want to go check it out), titled "Your Nurse Today Is...". From there, wanting to continue my education, (and being unable to pay off the incredibly high loans I accrued while there) I decided to enroll at UW-Milwaukee, first for Journalism but in the end applying for, and being accepted into the MFA program. I am currently about to start my final year in the program (yikes), preparing for the classes I'm going to be taking as well as the class I will be teaching (double yikes!). Yup, I will be molding the minds of 18 young photo enthusiast (and a bunch of other people that probably thought that taking a film photography class would be an easy way to get their art credits taken care of, not realizing how much money and time they will be putting into it), for the fall semester. But really, all kidding aside, I am both incredibly excited and extremely terrified of being able to teach something that I really love to a group of students. My main professor wanted to ease my nerves by assuring me that he would sit in for my first few classes to judge my performance, but that I shouldn't worry because he will wait until after the class is over to correct everything I did wrong so to not under mind my authority in front of my pupils... REALLY put me at ease, let me tell you. Besides learning how to teach students by trial and error I will be working on my final thesis as well as a really long paper where I get to sound really smart to all my friends I will make read it (aka, you Rob, just another perk of dating me, I can actually make you read it. Everyone else, you're safe. Be glad, it's going to be really long). My final work, as with much that I have been working with the last two years, is about our wonderful patriarchal society and what it is like to live in it, mostly as a female, but looking at aspects for males, queers, transgender and non binary individuals. Most of my research has been from watching news (mostly Fox), reading articles, finding quotes from public figures, etc. It was as much fun as it sounds, makes me super cheery. But again, all kidding aside, I am really proud of some of the things I have come to do. I am making art that is saying something that I am incredibly passionate about, and have the opportunity to share that with others. I will get into more about what I am doing in later posts, (yup, leaving you with a cliff hanger like that, you are just going to have to come back and find out more now). Which is much of what this blog will involve: sharing where I am at, problems I am debating, rants on the latest shitty thing I have discovered, and every now and then, (for my sanity and those of you who will follow it somewhat regularly), fun photo walks that I take, or side projects that I am working on. Lastly, in case you couldn't figure out by my current focus in projects, I am a huge feminist, or as Maisie Williams (a fucking fantastic actress in an amazing series) put it, a normal person, not a sexist. Have a good day!
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Me!Wisconsin native, born and raised. Cheesehead and Packers lover at heart. I am finishing my last year in the MFA program at UW-Miwaukee, some of what you will find on here. A place to sketch out ideas and thoughts and a place to put my mind at ease, or turmoil, depending on the subject matter. Archives |