Academic Art
Painting Cities to Life
District Artz & Zappos.com,
Dunn Edwards Paint & Blick Art Supplies
Over the years we have strived to provide artists with unprecedented opportunities.
Painting Cities to Life is the challenge designed to introduce emerging academic artist to the community and challenging each student to explore beyond their previous experiences. We work out the details and seek out educators to recommend us to their students. There is no shortage of interest and we welcome everyone who wants to try. Our method is to start with a theme and let the artists imagine what they can. The only goal is to empower artists and give them a voice in the public eye!
Academic Art
- Finley Southwick
- Las Vegas Academy
- January 4, 2019
- Fancy Tail Goldfish
About the Artist
Finley is a Las Vegas Academy Student who surprised everyone. At first you think she is shy then you find out she’s thinking. Her work is deeper than you can imagine and when she got it figured out we began to see what she was going for. The challenge was to reimagine Fancy Tail Goldfish and boy did she. What she did was to imagine them as deep deep sea bio luminescent Fancy Tail Goldfish. Transparent with bones showing and sparks of color subtle enough to convey the glow of light. She took first place for not only the execution but the imagination to bring her vision to the canvas!
“PAINTING CITIES TO LIFE IS THE EXPERIMENTAL ART INCUBATOR”
Started by Guerrilla Artz Foundation and Sponsored by Zappos, Dunn Edwards Paint and Blick Art Supplies!
It is the “Experimental Art Challenge” dedicated to emerging academics!
We are Painting Cities to Life in America. We are the change that can make way for creativity in not only our schools and museums where ideas are king and curiosity reigns. We can engage the community to join by supporting students as they are Painting Cities to Life.
The idea of inviting emerging student artists or any artist to take part in a challenge to paint on location as artists exposed to the community, is the cornerstone of Painting Cities to Life. Our experimental artist incubator invites artists to Re-Imagined the Imagined! Thereby empowering the artists to exhibit creativity and asking them to focus on three critical habits artists employ. 1. Comfort with Ambiguity to comfortably handle risk and uncertainty. 2. Idea Generation enables students to expand their range of ideas beyond their current range of thinking. 3. Transdisciplinary Research to create new conceptual, theoretical, methodological, and translational innovations that integrate and move beyond discipline-specific approaches to address a common problem.