Creativity, Activity, and Service (CAS)

Izabella Curtis Ib Student 2021 Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Garrett Bradley: American Rhapsody Exhibit I got the opportunity to walk over to the Contemporary Art Museum (CAM). Garret Bradley is a local Houston filmmaker. Bradley made 3 films, the first was very long and I felt like the story was like the clipping of other stories but it allowed me to think in-depth about my place in society. while the other two stories surrounded themes of love and the ideology of colorism.  I placed this under Learning Outcome one,  Identify your own strengths and develop areas of growth. In this exhibition, I felt like I learned a lot from all the people and other viewers and developed a lot of growth when researching and understanding this artist. 

Izabella Curtis In Student 2021 The Menil & Richmond Hall I walked to the Menil collection from my school and the Richmond hall, another collection on the Menil grounds. This collection is very stunning, with many different cultures and styles of art. I personally love Cy Twombly's work which has its own section in the collection. There were two big exhibitions that I felt were very interesting, an Australian artist that used traditional paints and styles and the other by a local artist from Houston that only uses lights/light fixtures. I identified this activity with Learning Outcome 1, I felt that this outcome was best represented because whenever I see new exhibits or experience new collections I feel like I grow as a person and improve on my analysis of art and learning new techniques to becomes more aware of what the art world has to offer

Izabella Curtis IB Student 2021 Calamari in Ramen This past christmas I got a ipad pro, so I am starting to tinker with digital art. I had a dream that I was eating ramen and when I looked down I saw this little octopus/ squid guy hanging out in my bowl eating my ramen! So, naturally I decided to draw this and instead of choosing an easier media that I actually know a little about I chose digital art. This is learning outcome 1 which is Identifying own strengths and areas for growth. This is outcome 1 because I learned that layer when drawing digital art is very very important and I have never worked with digital art but I did a pretty good job! My process!

Izabella Curtis Ib Student 2021 The Museum of Fine Arts Houston  Beatrice Gonzales Exhibit I walked to the Museum of Fine Arts to go see this really cool exhibition. Beatrice Gonzales is an activist in Spain and she has a very interesting color pallet with strong use of orange and a blue/green color. She drew and painted a lot of different things and unique things. She would have these clippings of murder and rape cases have a drawing of the picture and then she would have a silkscreen and maybe even a painting of it. You can really tell that she had a large thought process and really thought about what she was doing. Her whole style switched near the end of her life. She even had a different color pallet. She had a lot of emotions and an interesting eye to each price. It was really cool! Learning Outcome 1, Identify your own strengths and develop areas of growth. I got to walk through this exhibit and analyze a few of her pieces.

Izabella Curtis Ib Student Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry Documentary I watched the “Not Sorry” documentary located on Netflix. It was about the famous political Chinese artist Ai Weiwei and it was about his story and his art process, one of my favorite pieces he has made is called “Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn” (1995), it is a series of 3 pictures of Ai Weiwei dropping a Han Dynasty urn. Anyway this is learning outcome 1, Identify own strengths and develop areas of growth. This is learning outcome 1 because art history is one of my strengths and watching this documentary taught me about this really cool new artist I never knew about. Super cool documentary 10/10 would recommend you to watch it.  Never Sorry Documentary  “Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn” 1995