ASAA All-State Art

Cultural Mash-Up Characters

(1st Place – Communication Arts/Graphic Design)

Title of Art Piece: Cultural Mash-Up Characters
Category: Communication Arts / Graphic Design – 2018
Student/Artist’s Name: Claire Scott and Josephine Engstrom
School: Juneau-Douglas High School
Grade: 9th
Artist Statement:

I developed these characters to represent different cultural interests: my favorite era in history, Victorian, my favorite exotic culture, Japanese, a traditional culture of my family, Billy the Kid and the Wild West, and current Pop-culture, represented by a Kardashian taking a selfie. They share a common element of fitted armor. It is done in alcohol markers.

Artwork Dimensions: 12" x 15"
Original Submitted Images Below

http://artalaska.org/wp-content/uploads/gravity_forms/30-6e9a923a3f9f1cc0be023500e6aca5fc/2018/03/CultureMashupCharacterSketches.jpg

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Halibut Hook – TB

(3rd Place – Multicultural Art)

Title of Art Piece: Halibut Hook – TB
Category: Multicultural Art – 2018
Student/Artist’s Name: Travis Brown
School: Juneau-Douglas High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement:

I carved this for Outdoor Bio class. Mr. Hopkins liked it and asked me to submit it. He liked my atlatl, too.

Artwork Dimensions: 12" x 2" x 4"
Original Submitted Images Below

http://artalaska.org/wp-content/uploads/HalibutHookTB1.jpg
http://artalaska.org/wp-content/uploads/HalibutHookTB2.jpg
http://artalaska.org/wp-content/uploads/HalibutHookTB3.jpg

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Halibut Hook – AM

(Honorable Mention – Multicultural Art)

Title of Art Piece: Halibut Hook – AM
Category: Multicultural Art – 2018
Student/Artist’s Name: Aimie Mason
School: Juneau-Douglas High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement:

I made this for Outdoor Bio. We had a couple of Master Formline designs we could choose from – I liked this fish best.

Artwork Dimensions: 12"x 2" x 4"
Original Submitted Images Below

http://artalaska.org/wp-content/uploads/Aimie_HalibutHookFront.jpg
http://artalaska.org/wp-content/uploads/Aimie_HaibutHookBack.jpg
http://artalaska.org/wp-content/uploads/Aimie_HalibutHookTop.jpg

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Shelf Octopus

Title of Art Piece: Shelf Octopus
Category: Sculpture – 2018
Student/Artist’s Name: Steven Ireland-Haight
School: Juneau-Douglas High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement:

When building this, I was intrigued by the form of an octopus, and I wanted to make something that would actively sit on/slide off a shelf in a home. I got very detailed, even making indentations on the suction cups that sit unseen under the tentacles.

Artwork Dimensions: 6.5" x 12" x 10"
Original Submitted Images Below

http://artalaska.org/wp-content/uploads/shelf_octopus-1.jpeg
http://artalaska.org/wp-content/uploads/shelf_octopus-2.jpeg
http://artalaska.org/wp-content/uploads/shelf_octopus-3.jpeg

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Grey Wolf

Title of Art Piece: Grey Wolf
Category: Ceramics – 2018
Student/Artist’s Name: Steven Ireland-Haight
School: Juneau-Douglas High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement:

I made this during our animal mask making project in Ceramics class. I wanted to create an accurate rendering of a grey wolf. I even made several test-tiles so the glaze would be just right. The biggest challenge was that this was such a large scale slab project.

Artwork Dimensions: 15"x13"x14"
Original Submitted Images Below

http://artalaska.org/wp-content/uploads/GrayWolfFace.jpg
http://artalaska.org/wp-content/uploads/GrayWolfLeft.jpg
http://artalaska.org/wp-content/uploads/GrayWolfRt.jpg

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Classic Still Life

Title of Art Piece: Classic Still Life
Category: Drawing – 2018
Student/Artist’s Name: Claire Scott and Josephine Engstrom
School: Juneau-Douglas High School
Grade: 9th
Artist Statement:

This is, as the title suggests, a classic still life drawn from observation after doing smaller value studies. Graphite; Teacher suggests you zoom-in on the edges.

Artwork Dimensions: 18"x24"
Original Submitted Images Below

http://artalaska.org/wp-content/uploads/gravity_forms/30-6e9a923a3f9f1cc0be023500e6aca5fc/2018/03/ClassicStillLife.jpg

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Sunflowers

Title of Art Piece: Sunflowers
Category: Printmaking – 2018
Student/Artist’s Name: Julianna Kawakami
School: Juneau-Douglas High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement:

This is a monotype. Painting watercolor and gouache on a sheet of acrylic was interesting. I worked on it for several days, and it was frustrating when it dried. It was cool that you could erase things, and move them around, before committing to a print. The paper had to be just the right dampness, soaking overnight, to pull a good print. I even got a good ghost-print!

Artwork Dimensions: 15"x13"
Original Submitted Images Below

http://artalaska.org/wp-content/uploads/gravity_forms/30-6e9a923a3f9f1cc0be023500e6aca5fc/2018/04/SunflowerMonotype.jpg

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