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Pestilence

April 19, 2022 ASAA

1st Place – Sculpture

Title of Art Piece: Pestilence
Category: Sculpture – 2022
Student/Artist’s Name: Abigail Sparks
School: Thunder Mountain High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement:

Pestilence was a creature made upon my own personal thoughts and ideas alone. What started out as a fun project slowly began to turn into something more. Nicknamed Turkey early on into his creation, he was simply a monster made for me. I treated him akin to that of a pet, someone close to me like a family member. I treated him as such and the people around me began to do this as well. He became a part of me that I never knew was there and making. When Pestilence was stuck in the school over covid, it also felt like I had lost a family member. I hadn’t seen him for months and soon enough hadn’t seen him in a few years. But upon reuniting with him I was given that part of me back. I was allowed to reconnect and have the inspiration back to finish painting him and giving him all the aspects of his character that were always there in my mind. Pestilence was a personal piece, a connective piece, I found comfort in my monster and my monster found comfort in me.

Artwork Dimensions: 18 x 12 x 9 inches
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http://artalaska.org/wp-content/uploads/gravity_forms/43-86be3940bf5ebab5728a18094bf15113/2022/04/AS-Pestilence-1.jpg
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Filed Under: Sculpture – 2022, Winners – 2022 Tagged With: Thunder Mountain - 2022

Withering Reef

April 18, 2022 ASAA



2nd Place – Sculpture

Title of Art Piece: Withering Reef
Category: Sculpture – 2022
Student/Artist’s Name: Abigail Sparks
School: Thunder Mountain High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement:

Withering Reef:

Carbon emissions from fossil fuels are a thing ever-present in our everyday lives. From gas-powered cars, ships, and planes, to industrial factories and large private businesses. The excess of these emissions is what is ripping the future of not only our oceans away but the future of the generations ahead of us away. Things like Ocean Acidification and Coral Bleaching events are widespread and happening at a steep, upward, linear rate. Over 50% of our oceans coral has died off from the stress of climate change that causes Coral Bleaching. Who’s to say we will even have these reefs in the next few decades? Over half a billion people on this earth rely on coral reefs across the globe as a food source. Withering Reef isn’t just a monster, it’s a monster of our own creation, a monster that we should be actively fighting against but choose not to. Instead, we push it on future generations, telling them that it’s their problem, it is not our problem. It is everyone’s problem. It is your problem. Change will only begin once you can recognize that. Change will only come if you can see that you share this planet and its resources just as much as everyone else. Change begins with you.

Artwork Dimensions: 12 inches X 7 inches by 5 inches
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http://artalaska.org/wp-content/uploads/gravity_forms/43-86be3940bf5ebab5728a18094bf15113/2022/04/AS-Withering-Reef-3.jpg
http://artalaska.org/wp-content/uploads/gravity_forms/43-86be3940bf5ebab5728a18094bf15113/2022/04/AS-Withering-Reef-2.jpg
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Filed Under: Sculpture – 2022, Winners – 2022 Tagged With: Thunder Mountain - 2022

Onions and Leaks

April 17, 2022 ASAA



3rd Place – Sculpture

Title of Art Piece: Onions and Leaks
Category: Sculpture – 2022
Student/Artist’s Name: Joshua Thurman
School: Thunder Mountain High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement:

These pieces were a departure from my normal work. I lean towards production pottery with a taste for functionality. Pottery serves as a hobby I pour my soul into and it helps tie me to a more serene approach to life. Cooking has done the same thing for me for years. It seemed fitting to tie the two parts of my life together as the inspiration for a pottery set. Onions and Leaks took functionality and threw it out the window in exchange for a more relaxed and creative approach to things I’ve made time and time again.

Artwork Dimensions: 22 inches x 7 inches x 7 inches
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http://artalaska.org/wp-content/uploads/gravity_forms/43-86be3940bf5ebab5728a18094bf15113/2022/04/JT-OnL-1.jpeg
http://artalaska.org/wp-content/uploads/gravity_forms/43-86be3940bf5ebab5728a18094bf15113/2022/04/JT-OnL-2.jpeg
http://artalaska.org/wp-content/uploads/gravity_forms/43-86be3940bf5ebab5728a18094bf15113/2022/04/JT-OnL-3.jpg

Filed Under: Sculpture – 2022, Winners – 2022 Tagged With: Thunder Mountain - 2022

Rivers

April 16, 2022 ASAA



Honorable Mention – Sculpture

Title of Art Piece: Rivers
Category: Sculpture – 2022
Student/Artist’s Name: Joshua Thurman
School: Thunder Mountain High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement:

Rivers have been a huge part of my life for years. Flowing through the land around me, I grew up swimming, fishing, and climbing around the rivers of Oregon. Coming to Alaska things didn’t change much. I might spend less time swimming in them but they’ve never stopped being an integral part of my life. These vases were an outlet for the love I have for rivers. Each of their surfaces beautiful blue and flowing. Each vase is the name of a river in Alaska: Yukon, Copper, Tanana, Koyukuk, Kenai, Susitna, and Salmon. My family has a history in the Yukon’s waters. Not long after my grandparents got married they went on a trip down the Yukon. Only through hindsight they could see how turbulent that journey was.

Artwork Dimensions: 16 inches X 5 inches x 5 inches
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Original Images
http://artalaska.org/wp-content/uploads/gravity_forms/43-86be3940bf5ebab5728a18094bf15113/2022/04/JT-Rivers-1.jpg
http://artalaska.org/wp-content/uploads/gravity_forms/43-86be3940bf5ebab5728a18094bf15113/2022/04/Rivers-2.jpg
http://artalaska.org/wp-content/uploads/gravity_forms/43-86be3940bf5ebab5728a18094bf15113/2022/04/JT-Rivers-3.jpg

Filed Under: Sculpture – 2022, Winners – 2022 Tagged With: Thunder Mountain - 2022

Users

April 6, 2022 ASAA

Title of Art Piece: Users
Category: Sculpture – 2022
Student/Artist’s Name: Sophia Gimm
School: Palmer High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement:

My goal with these pieces was to approach the topic of substance abuse with a soft light. I wanted to open the conversation of many individual’s hidden struggles through sculpture, specifically through personified food. Using cool-tones and a largely muted color scheme, I was able to create an atmosphere of approachability around such a stigmatized topic. These pieces were heavily influenced by the work of Genesis Belanger, who regularly explores abstracted food and inanimate objects through sculpture.

Artwork Dimensions: 14 x 10 x 26 cm, 3.81 x 15 x 3.8 cm, 2.5 x 15.2 x 20.3 cm
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Filed Under: Sculpture – 2022 Tagged With: Palmer - 2022

Capture the Moment

April 6, 2022 ASAA

Title of Art Piece: Capture the Moment
Category: Sculpture – 2022
Student/Artist’s Name: Alissa Powell
School: Soldotna High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement:

I did not make this piece for presentation. In fact, I didn’t even intend for this piece to be viewed by anyone besides myself and my sculpture teacher. I made this piece in order to process and understand my emotions surrounding the loss of my photography teacher, Ms. Lisa Thomas. She passed away this past December, the day before Christmas break, and the news of her passing came as a shock to everyone at my school. I didn’t know what to do with the intense emotions that accompanied the news, so I turned to my art as a way to straighten out my thoughts. Ms. Thomas was always one of my biggest supporters; she was actually the first person at my school who encouraged me to pursue my goals by attending an art college. I never got the opportunity to tell her that I got accepted into art school, but I know that she would have been beyond happy to hear the news.

Artwork Dimensions: 10" wide x 8" high
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Filed Under: Sculpture – 2022 Tagged With: Soldotna - 2022

The Protector

April 6, 2022 ASAA

Title of Art Piece: The Protector
Category: Sculpture – 2022
Student/Artist’s Name: Abigail Sparks
School: Thunder Mountain High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement:

The Protector:

The Qilin or Chinese Unicorn is a being known to symbolize luck, good omens, protection, prosperity, success, and longevity. A protector of sorts, that watches over like a statue. They often have ties with nature and the overall natural world around us. Qilin are known to be protectors of the innocent and often will punish the wicked or malicious. The Protector is meant to be a modern take on the bronze statues of Qilin all across China. But with a bit of personal twist added in to ground my spirit with the symbol I was recreating. By giving it a metallic copper finish, I gave it the appearance of weathered copper. Over time, the metal-based paint will tarnish. As the sculpture is taken from place to place

Artwork Dimensions: 14 inches x 8 inches x 6 inches
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http://artalaska.org/wp-content/uploads/gravity_forms/43-86be3940bf5ebab5728a18094bf15113/2022/04/AS-The-Protector-1.jpg
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Filed Under: Sculpture – 2022 Tagged With: Thunder Mountain - 2022

TV Monster

April 6, 2022 ASAA

Title of Art Piece: TV Monster
Category: Sculpture – 2022
Student/Artist’s Name: Samuel Lang
School: Eagle River High School
Grade: 10th
Artist Statement:

“You wander down a dark and dank hallway. The old green wallpaper peeling along the edges, the wall and floor have both sustained water damage from years of leaking. The air is warm and moist in a way that sits around one’s neck. Suddenly there is a noise behind you, you whip around to catch the source as something flies by your neck. You turn again and are greeted by nothing, shakily you wander towards where you think it may have gone. A strange noise starts from somewhere. Static. You freeze as you feel something drip onto your shoulder. The static is getting louder, louder, louder. You can’t hear your own thoughts. You look up, and that was a mistake.”

Hiya! This is my Piece I call TV monster. I have always had a weird obsession with 1980s tube TVs, and trust me I don’t know why either. Something about them just piques my interest. So I decided to build a strange version of one out of cardboard wire and paint. It honestly looks like something that should be on a Green day or Jack Stauber Album cover. It was a lot of fun to build and I hope you like it!

Artwork Dimensions: 12" x 16" x 8"
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Filed Under: Sculpture – 2022 Tagged With: Eagle River - 2022

Lost

April 6, 2022 ASAA

Title of Art Piece: Lost
Category: Sculpture – 2022
Student/Artist’s Name: Olivia Overdorf
School: Homer High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement:

My inspiration for this piece was a mystical creature, so I chose a faun. A faun is a half-man-half-goat. You can see by the feature of the horns and goat-like ears. This was made from clay and was for an art prompt to create an idiom clay bust. Mine is “feeling lost” or just “lost.” I relate to this piece almost quite literally- “lost,” which I feel a lot. Even in the moment of making it, I felt lost, in which I was very emotional at the time of making it. I made this to which I related to it, thus sticking to the idiom by adding little by little to it. That of being a compass to one hand and while the other rests on its head. Giving a dead gaze and face, slightly agape. And lastly, the colors add to this piece too, almost cold or dead, which sets the feeling of “lost.”

Artwork Dimensions: 5.5" x 7"
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Filed Under: Sculpture – 2022 Tagged With: Homer - 2022

Wire Human

April 6, 2022 ASAA

Title of Art Piece: Wire Human
Category: Sculpture – 2022
Student/Artist’s Name: Marin Hart
School: Haines High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement:

Something about the way you bend and twist wire, it feels like playing with a malleable form of stress. I knew when I first began using it, that I wanted to implement this to create a human form crumpled and heart broken from grief. To actually find reference for the amount of emotion I wanted to shine through my piece, I instructed a friend into a curled ball on the floor and proceeded to take videos and photos at every angle. After that, it was a matter of warping aluminum wire to my will with a combination of wire cutters, pliers, and my own hands.

Artwork Dimensions: 10 Inches Long x 6 Inches Wide x 3.75 Inches High
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Filed Under: Sculpture – 2022 Tagged With: Haines - 2022

Acceptance

April 6, 2022 ASAA

Title of Art Piece: “Acceptance”
Category: Sculpture – 2022
Student/Artist’s Name: Olivia Overdorf
School: Homer High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement:

This work represents acceptance, as it is called. Anyone who sees it may relate to it. This piece shows a faun and a person dancing together, pulling one another along with their faceless smiles. This piece shows hope in acceptance from anyone, so that you feel safe and sound.

Artwork Dimensions: 14.5" x 11.5"
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http://artalaska.org/wp-content/uploads/gravity_forms/43-86be3940bf5ebab5728a18094bf15113/2022/04/Olivia-O-1.JPG
http://artalaska.org/wp-content/uploads/gravity_forms/43-86be3940bf5ebab5728a18094bf15113/2022/04/Olivia-O-2.JPG
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Filed Under: Sculpture – 2022 Tagged With: Homer - 2022

OSHA Violation

April 6, 2022 ASAA

Title of Art Piece: OSHA Violation
Category: Sculpture – 2022
Student/Artist’s Name: Paige Baggen
School: Wrangell High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement:

OSHA Violation (Sculpture)

When I originally set out to create this piece, I wanted to make a simple and elegant jewelry holder. However, as I went through the steps of bringing my idea to life, more and more things began to go wrong. Sculpting was more difficult than I anticipated, firing was iffy, and the painting process was a nightmare. Even when I thought I had finally finished, it was vandalized in its display case, forcing me to go back to the drawing board to make repairs. As I worked through each complication, my sculpture began to look more like a freak accident than a stylish jewelry holder. The end result came to be a symbol of my creative process: messy, chaotic, and stitched together.

Artwork Dimensions: 2.5 Inches Tall, 7 Inches Long, 4 Inches Wide
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http://artalaska.org/wp-content/uploads/gravity_forms/43-86be3940bf5ebab5728a18094bf15113/2022/04/OSHA-Violation-1.jpg
http://artalaska.org/wp-content/uploads/gravity_forms/43-86be3940bf5ebab5728a18094bf15113/2022/04/OSHA-Violaton-2.jpg

Filed Under: Sculpture – 2022 Tagged With: Wrangell - 2022

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