My Creative Arts Fellowship

The focus of my project has been constantly changing since I started it due to the reason that I am working on a subject that is changing in the present time. In the beginning, I thought this was a serious distraction for my project because I couldn’t stick on one path. There were always things…

My Aspirations

One of the most important things I’ve learned through my working experience for the Creative Fellowship is to accept the uncertainties that appeared during the process and let them guide me to tease out the “truth” of my work. Unlike working in a class with a group of people who are doing similar things, working…

Creating Connection Through Art

I always believe that for the artists, a quality group critique is crucial during their working process. It allows the artists not only to understand the project itself more comprehensive through different perspectives, but also to seek for answers and experiences from others to solve their concerns and confirm their thoughts. Meeting with my mentor…

Thinking, Experimenting, and Creating

As an artist, I always enjoy exploring all the potential ideas and ways to work on my project. While this allows me to fully unfold different parts of my works and learn from the experiment experience, it also makes it hard for me sometimes to figure out an integral and finalized project from all the…

My Cohort

As an artist, one of the most important and efficient ways I realized to improve my work is to learn from different comments from the audiences. It provides me various perspectives to review my work and allows me to consider the ideas and opinions I wouldn’t think about myself. Being in the Creative Arts Fellowship…

Hello Everyone :)

My name is Xiaodan Wang, I go by Clara because it’s easier to pronounce. I am a second year double major student major in Studio Arts and History of Art and Archicture and minor in French and Museum Studeis. I am really glad to be a part of the Creative Arts fellowship and working with…