Final Project Proposal

R a c h e l C o o p e r s t e i nN e w M e d i a , Fa l l

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Project ProposalI plan to create a collage to reflect my path as a vocalist from my acceptance into

college. This covers a large span of time and many life changing events, but I’d like to try to capture the overall progression of coming into my own. Each of my sketches shows this in a different way, and captures slightly different aspects of this progression.

Singing is a progression throughout a lifetime, and it could be thought of as linear, or as a cycle like my first sketch. Every goal I set takes time to achieve, and once I do, I add more “colors” to my vocal performance palette; colors of confidence, vocal agility, vocal health, etc. I celebrate, and the process begins again. Each quadrant of progression has a veil over it, save for the last one. This is to represent progress gradually coming into view, because I feel that the closer I get to my goal, the easier it is to see the details and vivid colors of the end result.

The second sketch represents me overcoming my fear of performance. The overall image is of my face, and is meant to be read left to right. The left side is black and white and in the dark, eyes downcast, mouth silenced. The right side is singing with eyes open, represented in color, and filled in with lights. This represents lack of fear and hiding in the dark, and allowing myself to become illuminated.

The third sketch is a layering of time from back to front. The triangles are stacked on top of each other, my acceptance into college on the bottom, my change in major in the middle, and my current position on top. The triangle on top is to be in color, with a view from the stage to represent my return to the vocal performance major, my original dream for college.

Singing is a progression throughout a lifetime, and it could be thought of as linear, or as a cycle like my first sketch. Every goal I set takes time to achieve, and once I do, I add more “colors” to my vocal performance palette; colors of confidence, vocal agility, vocal health, etc. I celebrate, and the process begins again. Each quadrant of progression has a veil over it, save for the last one. This is to represent progress gradually coming into view, because I feel that the closer I get to my goal, the easier it is to see the details and vivid colors of the end result.

The second sketch represents me overcoming my fear of performance. The overall image is of my face, and is meant to be read left to right. The left side is black and white and in the dark, eyes downcast, mouth silenced. The right side is singing with eyes open, represented in color, and filled in with lights. This represents lack of fear and hiding in the dark, and allowing myself to become illuminated.

The third sketch is a layering of time from back to front. The triangles are stacked on top of each other, my acceptance into college on the bottom, my change in major in the middle, and my current position on top. The triangle on top is to be in color, with a view from the stage to represent my return to the vocal performance major, my original dream for college.

John BaldessariJune 17, 1931, National City, California.

EDUCATION: [1953] B.A., San Diego State College. San Diego, CA.[1957]  M.A., San Diego State College. San Diego, CA.

WORK:Featured in 200+ solo exhibitions and 1000+ group exhibitions in the

U.S. and Europe.

AWARD AND HONORS:Memberships in the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Americans for the Arts

Lifetime Achievement Award, the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, the BACA International 2008

Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, awarded by La Biennale di Venezia in 2009

Martin SchoellerMarch 12, 1968 Munich, Germany

EDUCATION: Studied photography at Lette Verein in Berlin

1993-96: Worked as assistant for Annie Lebowitz in NYC

WORK:2005: "Close Up: Portraits 1998-2005“

2008:"Female Bodybuilders”" published by Pond Press2008: "Fotographie Portfolio #54",published by Stern

Included in Permanent Collection of the Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryNovember 15, 2012: Identical: Portraits of Twins

AWARD AND HONORS:2000 Best New Talent, LIFE Magazine Alfred Eisenstaedt Awards

2001 Gold Medal, Society of Publication Designers – “Sports Portfolio” The New Yorker2008 Best Portrait Award, American Photo Images of the Year

2010 Best Entertainment & Celebrity cover of the 2010 ASME Cover - GQ/Clint Eastwood cover

Wassily Kandinskypianter, musician writer lawyer

one of the pioneers of modern abstract art

December 16, 1866, [Moscow] – December 13, 1944 [Neuilly-sur-Seine]

EDUCATION: 1886: Law Faculty of Moscow University, Graduated with Honors

1896: Anton Azbe's private painting school in Munich1900: Munich Academy of Arts, studied w. Franz Stuck

WORK:1903: Der Blaue Reiter [most famous work from this phase]

1910:”Concerning the Spiritual in Art”1913: “Rückblicke” (“Retrospect”)

1926: “Point and Line to Plane”