I'm Amanda Rose Kowalski and I am currently a senior in the School of Art and Design and the University of Illinois Champaign Urbana. For the past four years I have been studying photography and sculpture. Being able to study at such a big university I have gathered many tools to further my knowledge and understanding of the nature of my artistic subjects. When I leave the school come May, I would like to go to a major city full of culture and opportunity and be someone who defines culture.
I am a photographer and have always considered myself one, photography is the reason I got into art in the first place. I enjoy exploring narratives and being able to tell a story with an image. Every part of making an image gets me excited, from getting an idea, refining that concept and then pulling it all together. Propping, styling, working with the models and finding the perfect lighting and angle for the camera creates a perfect storm of joy for me.
All my interests reveal themselves in my art. I love going to museums and looking at all the different ways art can be executed. I am also heavily inspired by my dog Elvis, a little terrier mix with a lot of character. In my spare time If I'm not playing with my dog or taking pictures of him, I'm usually at the movies, watching my favorite tv shows or checking my e-mail and reading celebrity gossip. Anything that catches my eye or gets me thinking I write about in a notebook and use it as a seed for a future project.
In this class I would like to learn how to make what I love to do into what I do for a living. Whether it be working for a magazine as an editorial photographer or owning my own fine arts studio in New York City I need to know how to market myself to the world. That is why I believe that this class will be that perfect tool for furthering myself in the world.
My e-mail is amandarosek@comcast.net
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