The Arts 

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JUST LISTEN

Christin Brodie

(Pam Aloisa)

Department of Fine Arts

United States Air Force Academy

Acrylic, paper, plastic, wood, and metal on canvas depicting changes in modern music.

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OUR SONG IN COLOR

Christin Brodie

(Pam Aloisa)

Department of Fine Arts

United States Air Force Academy

Acrylic and paper on canvas – Dark Blue Tree with orange background.

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SOME ARE TRASHY

Christin Brodie

(Pam Aloisa)

Department of Fine Arts,

United States Air Force Academy

Looks as if a girl has been tossed into the trash can and the only thing you can see is her legs sticking out of the can.

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UNTITLED

Emily Danti

(Matt Barton)

Department of Visual and Performing Arts

University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

Animals have always been an integral part of human existence. They unfortunately carry the burden of contradictory roles within our society. This piece explores some of my childhood memories related to animal/human relation, and how urban culture influenced and at the same time confused my view of animals in nature.

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A STRANGE AFFAIR

Aaron Graves

(Carol Dass)

Department of Visual and Performing Arts

University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

This short photographic story was an exploration in traditional film/paper methods as well as fashion and surrealism. It was shot on a now discontinued technical film, Kodak Tech- Pan. The film was used for its unique rendering of grayscale and slight infrared capability which added to the surrealism of using realistic mannequins in a fashion narrative. The overall layout has an underlying commentary of idealism and falseness in fashion and beauty.

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HEIDE HAIRE

Heidi Haire

(Corey Dreith)

Department of Visual and Performing Arts

University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

A chewed piece of gum tells quite a story. In the process of chewing gum an individual's teeth, saliva, and mastication react upon and alter the gum. Various chemicals are exchanged between the gum and the chewer. The gum becomes a receptacle for recording time and process. Essentially, the gum becomes a memorial.

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 WORLD CLAN TOTEM POLE

Melanie G. McCann

(Matt Barton)

Department of Visual and Performing Arts

University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

Carved wooden totem poles, historically produced in the northwest United States and southwest Canada by indigenous tribes, were how the tribes recorded the ancestral record of their particular family clans. The contemporary totem pole submitted here is a statement that all humans of the world are of one clan. The masks are altered emulations of historical tribal masks or regalia from miscellaneous countries representing a worldwide collection. They are made from various materials including ceramics, wood, copper sheeting, and coiled copper or silver-toned wire. The masks are mounted onto an eleven-foot tall “pole” constructed of six-inch square metal reinforcement mesh which is painted with copper colored hammered-look paint. Four steel sentinels top the pole protectively keeping watch in the four directions as is often customary on historical totem poles.

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SANTORINI, GREECE

Marie McLendon

(Pam Aloisa)

Department of Fine Arts

United States Air Force Academy

I've always wanted to visit coastal Greece. I especially love the blend of architecture and a rocky coast. I chose to paint Santorini because of beautiful vibrant blue domes of the church. Hopefully someday I'll get to visit the real thing!

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PORTRAIT STUDY

Marie McLendon

(Pam Aloisa)

Department of Fine Arts

United States Air Force Academy

This portrait study allowed me to explore a more loose style of painting which is challenging for me, especially in watercolor. I had a lot of fun painting my younger brother Eric!

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THE FALCON

Marie McLendon

(Pam Aloisa)

Department of Fine Arts

United States Air Force Academy

I feel the Falcon is a mascot that represents the Air Force Academy very well. Its speed, graceful flight, and intensity inspired me to do this painting while exploring the style of one of my favorite artists, Steve Penley from Atlanta, Georgia.

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MERCHANT OF ADDIS

Marie McLendon

(Pam Aloisa)

Department of Fine Arts

United States Air Force Academy

My inspiration for this painting came from the photographic portrait taken of a man our group encountered on a recent trip to Africa. He may simply be a merchant on the streets of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, but his expression conveys an immense sense of happiness and pride. I included African textile patterns in the background to further represent his heritage and culture.

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UNTHRIFTY LOVELINESS

Marie McLendon

(Pam Aloisa)

Department of Fine Arts

United States Air Force Academy

I found the objects in this painting at a second-hand store where they jumped out at me with their warm, old-fashioned style. I used the image of the cow as a way to explore contrasts of value and color intensity. Having spent part of my childhood on a farm, I wanted the cow to really stand out from the more uniform, warm tone of the frame and background. 

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CONVEYING SYNESTHESIA

Charlotte M Miller

(Claire Rau)

Department of Visual and Performing Arts

University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

The art work has in the background a quilting design of fish laid out on a piece of grid board. Protruding from the bottom of the grid board is a wooden frame enclosing a xylophone. The xylophone is made with wooden keys. Directly above the keys are round wooden mallets attached to door-stop springs to allow the mallets to spring up and down. A cord is tied to each mallet handle that runs up and through an eye-screw that is attached to a board at the top. The cord will dangle down in front of the grid board and above the xylophone. On the dangling end of the cord are threaded pieces of colored fabric. There will be a small amount of cord below the fabric that the viewer can be pull. When the viewer lets go of the cord the hammer will spring down bouncing onto one of the keys of the xylophone to sound the note associated with the color fabric on the cord.

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SUBCONSCIOUS

Erica A. Shirley

(Carol Dass)

Department of Visual and Performing Arts

University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

As an artist, I fully do not understand why I decide to capture certain objects or scenes. I only hope the images present emotions I cannot express or am too timid to explain in words. Additionally, I hope dialogue within myself and dialogue with others can guide me to a point in which I see a relationship of shared sensations between myself, others and the art.

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FAIRIES

Jack M. Student II

(Carol Dass)

Department of Visual and Performing Arts

University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

With this body of work I want to capture the essence of the Fairies in all their glory! I have also captured the laughter from the images from the reactions of the viewers. With this series also I have decided to capture other mythical creatures such as the young father time , and the male version of Venus de Milo. I want to have fun with this project and photograph myself wearing wings with and without my clothing to make fun of some of the figures that I grew up with and now love, I have never seen a male Venus de Milo nor have I seen an image of what someone thinks Father Time would look like at a young age. My project is not to cause ill will towards anyone it is however a way that I can poke fun at myself and have a good time doing.

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CONVERGENCE

Alexis Treulieb

(Matt Barton, Carol Dass, and Corey Drieth)

Department of Visual and Performing Arts

University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

I used a photographic process to create these images. All of them are silver gelatin prints and were taken using a Nikon SLR camera with 35 mm film. The content within this body of work relates to the nature of the self and its connection to environment through the means of self-portraiture. My body mimics, merges, and collaborates with the natural landscape through posture, assuring that its identity is contingent upon the influences of both the camera's perception and the natural habitat. It is my objective to communicate the interdependent nature of the self and to express its fundamental connection to all that it comes in contact.

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THE STRUGGLE

Nancy Wells-Georgia

(Corey Drieth & Carol Dass)

Department of Visual and Performing Arts

University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

This piece addresses the journey for equality for women of color and women in general and the struggle to pull them down to a more manageable level. Included in this piece are two bronze sculptures, a gender and race specific bronze which is our black female and our less specific male that is faceless, non-race specific. Between them is the sharp barbed wire that represents the barbs and phrases that cut, that belittle and are meant to bring down the female, to show the black woman her place, to refuse her the ability to climb higher. I used bronze, copper wire, base metal and wood.

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THE BIRTHING

Nancy Wells-Georgia

(Corey Drieth & Carol Dass)

Department of Visual and Performing Arts

University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

This piece is about the stages of birth, and is my view on childbirth. I wanted to illuminate the child in the womb and at birth in three stages. This is a gateway piece, the beginning of a series where I use light, metals, and plastics to create a world which people might look into a place that is sacred, that free-floating, peaceful womb. I used aluminum, liquid resin, polymer clay, wood and lights.

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PARENTING RULES IN A BROKEN HOME

Nancy Wells-Georgia

(Corey Drieth & Carol Dass)

Department of Visual and Performing Arts

University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

This mixed media piece about my concerns of how we are dictated to concerning our parenting of children in broken homes. I used a parenting book for newly divorced parents and tore out what I thought were valid statements and quotes. I added symbols for hope, pain, rebirth, spirituality and hardship. I used a parenting book, acetate, plastics, vellum, acrylic paint, and canvas.

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THE GIRL IN THE MIRROR

Nancy Wells-Georgia

(Corey Drieth & Carol Dass)

Department of Visual and Performing Arts

University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

Self-esteem is sometimes a difficult thing to teach and give and when we hold up a mirror to people with self esteem issues, they only see the flaws. This piece was created for the model who has self-esteem issues, it wasn't enough to hold up the mirror to show her how lovely she was, because she only saw her flaws, so I drew her, her reflection and how I see her. This drawing begins a journey of teaching a young woman about how there are many types of beauty and how to love herself.

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SNAPSHOTS OF LIFE IN THE VOID

Mathew Worcester

(Pam Aloisa)

Department of Fine Arts

United States Air Force Academy

This is a graphite and colored pencil testimony to the last three years of my life, and the experiences that I have been through.

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LUCE-ID CREATIONS

Mathew Worcester

(Pam Aloisa)

Department of Fine Arts

United States Air Force Academy

This painting is a surrealist tribute to the dream world which we live in for a third of our lives. It is the creation of one of my dreams, a fantasy that has been rolling around in my unconscious world for years now.