Art Show- JoJo Ciancio

Overall, I thought the Art Show was pretty incredible. There were so many good pieces of artwork being displayed on hand. I almost felt as if my artwork did not belong in the same art show because my work was so simple compared to everyone else. This art show just reiterated how many talented young people there are in the world. We are fortunate to have a lot of talented artists here at Butler and that concept amazes me.
There were a lot of excellent pieces of artwork, but there were a few that captured my attention. However, I do not recall any of the titles of the artwork. So I will describe the artwork from the best of my ability. One piece was a picture that had to do with alcoholism. The picture contained a bunch of empty alcohol bottles. The piece was made because the artist’s dad died of alcoholism and she wanted to display how negative alcohol is to oneself. This piece was very powerful and it makes you stop and think. I am fortunate enough to have no one in my family that suffers from alcoholism and this picture reiterates how lucky I am. I am very blessed. Another piece that stood out to me was a piece done by one of my teammates called, “From Somebody to Nobody.” This piece stuck with me because this teammate is a friend of mine and I felt bad for him. I can understand why he is transferring schools now. He does not feel like he belongs here, and that saddens me because he is a nice kid and I really liked him as a friend. I am going to miss him.
In the end, play is something that will never leave my life. I feel like I play almost every day. I love messing around with my brother and sister as well as my friends. Play is a part of my nature and who I am. I love playing with my little cousins and acting like a little kid. I hope I never stop playing. I will try to make sure work does not take up my entire life and that I still have time to play because I love play.

JoJo Ciancio- Brand Silhouette Reflection

The purpose of my silhouette was to represent me as a student-athlete at Butler University. I am on the football team at Butler, but first and more importantly I am a student. I wanted people when they looked at my silhouette, to see all the brands that I use for school and for football. I divided up the silhouette into two parts. The inside of my head, “the ground,” represents the brands I use for school versus the outside of my head, “the foreground,” which represents all the brands I use for football.
My silhouette project represents me as a consumer who is brand loyal. From the pictures on my silhouette, one could tell that I used multiple pictures to represent the same brand. For example, if you look in the region outside of the outline of my head, the foreground, one will see the brand Nike used for the majority of the space. It is the brand that I use the most in my life as a consumer. This shows that I buy a lot of athletic wear because I need it to play football. It also shows that I am very brand loyal because I use the brand Nike the most for football. I keep buying from Nike because I feel that they produce a good product to help me play at my best. Also, in the foreground, you will see brands used that I need for nutrients to help my body grow and recover from playing football. If you look in the top left hand corner of the silhouette, you will see brands for protein, water, Gatorade, multivitamins, and fish oils. All of these brands help to improve my performance on and off the field. Each play a vital role into helping me receive the nutrients to keep my body going.
On the inside of my head one will see all the brands I use for school. These materials consist mostly of brands like Bic, Papermate, and Jansport. Most of these brands I have been using since I was a little kid. This once again reiterates the idea that I am a loyal consumer. I sometimes buy things because of their brand name, but most of all I buy things based on their reputation and performance. If the performance is good the first time, I will keep going back to that brand. Overall the brands of my project should represent the idea that I am very brand loyal.
The reason for why I divided up the brands into two different parts, school and football, was to represent the idea of a student-athlete. The reason for the colors green and brown on the outside of the silhouette is because the colors brown and green are associated with football. The color of the grass is green and the color the dirt is brown. There is more green than brown because grass is more visually abundant on the field than mud. The use of these colors is to give the idea of using colors to symbolize football. I also categorized the products. I put all the supplements and diet brands in the top left hand corner. On the right hand side of the poster, I put all the products I use when I am getting dressed. On left hand side of the poster is all of the miscellaneous stuff that I use for football.
The inside of my poster has the color blue to represent me as a student at Butler. I put the logo for Butler in the center because academics are the main reason for why I go to school here. I am here to get a degree. I put Jansport at the top of the head because it represents my backpack. My backpack carries all the products that I put on the inside of my poster. So it represents how the backpack contains all the other products. The arrows drawn inside and outside my head represent the idea that a student-athlete works together. You can’t have one without the other. However, the academic brands are on the inside because school is more important than sports.
Overall this silhouette shows an interesting concept. I really like the way my project turned out. It took a lot of time and effort but it was very rewarding. I felt so accomplished when I finished it. In the artistic sense it shows me as a student- athlete. In the business sense it shows me as a loyal costumer. Both are an accurate assessment of me and that is why I liked how I designed my silhouette.

JoJo Ciancio- Art Proposal Reflection

Overall I thought our presentation was a success. We were able to present our art proposal to the entire class. The presentation consisted of what the idea was, "Butler Bubbles", the reason behind why we choose this idea, and what was the logic behind choosing Holcomb Gardens. I thought our speech was organized well and each person did their part to contribute to the speech. Not one person said everything, everyone contributed equally. I think we did a good job with presenting our topic and giving all the important details. We figured in how Holcomb Gardens was the appropriate area for our idea. However, for next time I think we need to be a little more persuasive. We need to really push them and put more effort into selling them into our idea. We did a good job of how this product could relate to any audience, boys or girls, but we just need to use more persuasive vocabulary in our speech.

All the groups did a fantastic job with their art proposals. The visual aids were impressive. Some of those 3-D models were really good. The visual aid along with what they were saying really tied everything together. One could not exist without the other.

The one group that sold me was the "Watering Hole". I really like how they incorporated cost into their speech. The idea that the water supply was going to be coming from the sewers and that the university wasn't going to have to pay for water was really interesting. They did their research and the more knowledge they had about their topic the more I was convinced. I think if our group talked about cost and other economic factors it would have been more persuasive because cost is a big deal. The less expensive you can make it the more people are going to be willing to support your product.

JoJo Ciancio- 100 Acres Reflection

I felt my experience at 100 Acres was different than what was experiened by the kids in the video. I was not really able to climb and jump around on the art sculptures because of my torn acl. But nevertheless I still really enjoyed my experience. While I wasn't physically able to interact with the art, I instead interacted with the art mentally. My favorite piece was the Park of the Laments by Alfredo Jaar. I felt this was the most interesting piece in the park. I found it so peaceful and relaxing up there because you were isolated from the rest of the world. You were hidden from everyone else. You could go up there and just relax and completely indulge yourself in the outdoors. The piece I least understood was the artwork that had the two circular rings that hung in the trees. What was the artist thinking? What was the artist trying to get out of the viewer? What did he or she want us to think when we saw this piece?

Play-Doh and Creativity Article Connection

I wanted to take the time now to reflect and make a connection between the creativity article and playing with Play-Doh. At first I was excited to play with the Play-Doh in class, but when I held it in my hands and squeezed it it was like I was squeezing a foreign object. It has been so long since I have played with Play-Doh that I didn't know what to do with it. This is the connection I wanted to make with the article. The article stated that the less we do that it is creative the less creative we become. That is how I felt in class on Tuesday. I found it hard to use the right side of my brain and really open up my creative side. I found it hard to build objects out of the Play-Doh, something a 4 year old could do way better than me. It was sad. I feel I only use the left-side of my brain and that is something I want to change.