User:Mindytonti

bio
My name is Mindy Tonti I am currently getting my degree in Fashion Design at the art institute of Seattle. I love to travel and experience different cultures outside of seattle and outside the US. I spent the last year living in Ireland and working. After attaining my degree I want to start a fashion conscious clothing line collaborating with my sister, who is a law school student at seattle U, to make clothes that are not only economically responsible but also broaden peoples knowledge on critical issues needed to be addressed in our country for example domestic violence and drug abuse. If you have more questions on how we plan to do this please ask, it is a working process and we would appreciate any ideas other have.

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I have driven by the sculpture park many times and there has always been one piece that I notice with disgust. For some reason I have always taken great offense to this piece, ‘typewriter eraser”. I decided to go take a closer look at the piece and with that my dislike intensified. Typewriter eraser was made by Claes Oldenburg, an American artist who was born in Sweden in 1929. I researched Claes Oldenburg and found that many of his other pieces of artwork reflect the same style of ‘typewriter eraser’. Very modern and realistic, something I have a hard time appreciating. I looked at pictures of all of these pieces and eventually one did catch my eye, ‘bottle o notes’. Although this is a sculpture still within his general style I found it interesting because it made me think, I didn't just see the piece as a large metal bottle constructed by an artist I already had a presumed disliking for. I went back to the sculpture park to look again at ‘typewriter eraser’. Although my feelings have not diminished towards this piece, I still strongly dislike it I am able to appreciate it more after learning about Oldenburg and starting to understand why he sculpts what he does. I don't feel I am the correct judge of someone else’s art, art is so subjective. To many people this could be a beautiful sculpture and to others it could be viewed as I see it, horrible. But even with all of my distaste for this piece I still appreciate it as a piece of art that someone put a lot of work into, that came directly out of them that is trying to be understood by the public it was made to be seen

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Mindy Tonti

By the end of this quarter, I want to have started writing a book. I’ve always wanted to write my story. Not that I think my life has been all that special but I have lived through a lot that I feel others can relate to and also draw inspiration from. In the end I want my book to be a collection of short stories, poetry, letters, and artwork taking the form of a novel.

Research component: There are a few books I have read that have really touched me and inspired me in the way that I hope mine will do to others. I want to re read them to help me with my project. The books are more now and again, the perks of being a wallflower, and running with scissors. I will also do research on these three particular authors and look for different techniques and tools to help me write a book.

Week 2: Start reading More Now and Again. Look through the work I already have written that I can use in my project. Look up helpful hints online about writing a book.

Week 3: Finish reading More Now and Again. Start to fill a binder with the work I have and begin to make an outline of chapters and information that will fall into each one.

Week 4: Start reading Running with scissors. Finish the outline and begin to fill in the holes of what writing needs to be done.

Week 5: Finish Running with scissors and continue writing various parts of my book.

Week 6: Read the Perks of being a wallflower and begin to look through my artwork to see what pieces are significant that I want to be a part of my book. Continue writing.

Week 7: Start working on my final presentation for the project. Having the outline complete I will put all of the work I have collected together into a notebook and organize it as I want it to be in the book.

Week 8: Continue to write and finalize the outline and organization of the binder to be presented

Note: This is a very personal project. A lot of the material I am writing about may not be appropriate to be read in class. I will try and pick a few things that I think may be appropriate and go over them with you before the presentation. Although this will be my personal story I am not sure yet if I want to divulge that information to the class. If I ever do try and publish the finished book it will most likely be under another name to protect not only me but the people that are in it.

reflective assessment
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