Ventura College - Sculptural Self-Portraits

Following up our successful cardboard chair project, beginning sculpture students have been busy working on clay self-portrait busts. Not all self-portraits have to be accurate and literal (although they can).  You are more than the sum of your outer skin, and so can your self-portrait.  How do you see yourself?  How do others see you?

Zachary Illig

Julietta Cortez

Lynne Holmes

Sebastian Palomares

Art Beat at Oxnard Garala Gallery - Ventura College Art Show

These four office spaces provided by Oxnard Art Beat will be experimental gallery spaces for Ventura College art faculty and their students this November. The exhibition "Addiction in Art" begins Nov 11 - Nov 30. The reception is on Nov 11 from 6 - 9 p.m. Mark your calendars for what promises to be a thought-provoking show.  The gallery is open by appointment only after the reception.  

Fall 2011 Cardboard Chairs - Ventura College Beginning Sculpture

The VC Beginning Sculpture Cardboard Chair project this semester was another great success. Students did a fabulous jobs creating a personal chair that fits their profile - personal, comfortable, colorful and functional.   The chair, made completely from cardboard, had to support the student's weight.  Mission accomplished!

Dene Mesick
Double Seaters

Sebastian Palmoares
(Black, Red and other color style)

 Lynne Holmes
(Costco Cardboard Chair)

Megan Petree

Michael Mchale
(Frank Lloyd Style)

Ventura College 3D - Self Portrait With Historical Reference

Ventura College 3D - Beginning Ceramics 

The students' first assignment: create a self-portrait. But not just your regular self-portrait.  Students were asked to create a self portrait (at least 14" tall) using a historical vase as inspiration and reference.  The assignment utilized various clay skills while requiring the students to think conceptually.  Everyone is familiar with the traditional painted or photographic self-portrait... but a self-portrait vase?  They did a GREAT job.

Ventura College 3D - Kiln Opening Week 6

This is our second glaze firing of the Fall semester.  Students helped load and unload the kiln, a science and art unto itself.  Opening a kiln is like waking up on Christmas morning... did Santa leave us something amazing or a sack of coal!?  Thankfully it was something amazing.  Congrats to my students for a job well done!