A not-so-mini entry about me
FORMAL STUFF:
Kristy M Lopez
I am a Full Time Student at New Jersey City University pursuing a B.A. in Art History with an Art Teachers Certification. For a history of my past experiences (basically a profile with most of my resume loaded on it) I created a LinkedIn Profile.
I am expected to receive my degree and certification by January 2014.
You can email me at KristyLoo@live.com or KLopez@njcu.edu
I have a Blog where I try to post all my finished and some in progress works.
The KLOg or http://kristylopez.blogspot.com
Instagram is usually where I will post more intimate images of influences, progress works, or things of interest.
@kristylopez or here: http://instagram.com/kristylopez
or here http://web.stagram.com/n/kristylopez/
Twitter is where I follow various influential artists, museums, and media.
@KristyMLopez or here: https://twitter.com/kristymlopez
Tumblr brings a fun and creative audience. I like the ease of posting images to a profile. So usually I will post my instagram images on Tumblr for a pretty presentation, and to follow users of interest.
@KristyMLopez or here: http://kristymlopez.tumblr.com/
And mostly for personal use and some art sharing and networking...
Facebook: Kristy Lopez or here: http://facebook.com/Kristy138
Informal Stuff:
I am a 22 years old only child, living at home with my loving parents who's anniversary was yesterday: 25 years! I am 4 years engaged to an amazing man and budding artist, 25 year old Henry Deibel (please check out his artwork here, he is fantastic). We live together in a comfortable attic and growing studio in the basement. Both of us are Leos, so I feel like the better we know ourselves, the better we know how to treat each other. Falling in love is obviously a thrilling thing, but growing in love has been an enlightening and ever changing experience. I feel like that my relationship with art is very similar.
Since high school, where I really began focusing my skill in the arts, I had a hard time committing to one medium. I did photography, woodshop, painting, drawing, publisher, creative writing... I've always wanted to do EVERYTHING. As I began to think about college, i realized the only way to be accepted in a respectable art school was to have a portfolio that honed in on one skill. Painters were not sculptors, and Illustrators were NOT fine artists - I did not know the difference or understand why there was a separation. With the years, I have learned about the relationship of the arts between each other. I still love photography, sculpture, painting, drawing, computers, film, writing, and I'm even READING NOW (off topic: growing up I didn't read much or finish many books, even for school. My attention span was all over the place and my appreciation for the language arts was in a more common language - caring more about my own thoughts than those on a page). Now, I am so willing to hear what other people have to say, instead so focused on what I want to say. THUS, my realization that I want to teach... giving me the opportunity to be heard by malleable young minds and simultaneously giving those minds the opportunity to be creatively heard. How can one be creatively heard? WELL, just about a billion different way! Photography, woodworking, painting, drawing ,sculpting, computer design, writing... etc etc etc. I finally know how I can commit to all the arts I love! My portfolio for teaching can't just show one medium, but should show many, and should prove that I can show someone who doesn't know that medium/tool how to use it for their own artistic interpretation.
It's a beautiful thing - to be heard and to hear others, to been seen and see others... I think this is a valuable lesson in one's relationships in life; whether it's with themselves, their profession, their loved ones, with society. There is too much to discover. An artist can't always be creating because then they will go deaf/blind to their surroundings. It is what Janine Antoni said to her students at Columbia University: "...teaching art is teaching students how to wait." This active way of waiting breaks the conscious sequential mode of communication, which allows influence to occur. It allows the outside to come in, even if your creative process approach began from the inside.
(35mm color photo from Islamoarda of Henry fishing)
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