Questionnaire

1. Name, phone #, and e-mail: Nah, nevermind. I know this already...but please tell me the address for your class blog.
http://seeizetta.blogspot.com/
2. What’s your major? What year will you graduate? 
Graphic Design 2016
3. Why did you choose a photography class (or photography as a major), and what do you hope to learn from school in general and this class specifically? 
Honestly I chose this class because it was a prerequisite for a different class that is required for my major.
4. What are your goals after graduation? Please list your goals in reverse order, starting five years out, then three, two, one, and six months. 
5. Have Children
4. Maintain a well paying job ($80,000 a year) that I enjoy
3. Pay off all school loans
2. Get married
1. Obtain a job, maybe at a magazine (Vogue) or a video game company (Bioware)
5. What artists, musicians, photographers, writers, movies, books have influenced you/your work? 
Artist: Jan Kinney; the first art teacher I ever had. She is one of the main reasons I am an artist today.
 Musicians: Lady Gaga, Queen, Rolling Stones, and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Writers: Ayn Rand, Cassandra Clare, George R. R. Martin, and Orson Scott Card.
Movies: Disney, Marvel, DC.
Books: Game of Thrones, Ender's Game, Anthem, and The Mortal Instruments.
6. Where do you get information about current national and international events? 
Usually I find out from my grandparents as I don't watch television. Sometimes I'll see things on MSN or Google.
7. Are there any important websites that you are referencing for art/photo competitions and/or information? 
http://www.gallerycollection.com/greeting-cards-scholarship.htm
8. What museums and/or galleries have you been to in the past year? 
Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas/Lovefield Airport and Science and History Museum in Fort Worth
9. Have you had any photo projects and/ or training in the past? 
Unfortunately, no.
10. What is the value of art for the artist? 
To me, art has more value when more and more people have feelings of contradiction when looking at a piece. I feel like my art is being fully valued when people are almost offended by what they see, to me that is one of the strongest emotions, and for an artist emotion is was we try to evoke from the audience.
11. What is the value of art for the audience? 
When an audience looks at a piece of art, they automatically look for meaning. I remember reading a comic in a newspaper as a kid, in it a father and son are looking at a painting that is completely blank except for a black dot in the center. The dad turns to his son and says, "You see that son? It represents how small we are in this universe" After the father finished speaking the dot flew off the canvas because it was a fly on a blank canvas.
12. Is photography a vocation or an avocation? 
I think it's a vocation and an avocation. In some ways its a vocation because it is a needed art and many people can create a career with it. On the other hand its an avocation because many people don't have the ability to make a career for themselves.
13. What is your passion? 
I really enjoy painting, mostly realism. Recently I have come to enjoy ceramics and sculpture. The first piece I ever sold was a ceramic bust of a catholic priest, so ceramics will always be dear to me.
http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2012/143/d/a/fear_by_alienxsama-d50vpvl.jpg 
14.What are you afraid of? What makes you uncomfortable? 
What scares me most is being a disappointment to myself. I expect a lot from myself because most of my family, in my eyes, are failures.
15. Do you have a passport?
A passport to go to a different country: yes.
A passport hard drive: not yet.
16. Why did you sign up for this class? What do you hope to learn from it?
Like I said earlier, I took this class because it was a prerequisite for a class that I am required to take for my major.