Ellen Mueller’s drawings, videos, interactive installations, performances, and social action artworks explore social and political issues such as climate change, the 24-hour news cycle, and our media-filtered world. However, drawing and collage are also important elements in her work, and she derives inspiration from interaction with people, communities, and nature. She is a truly intermedia artist who explores a single topic through a variety of processes and media.
Art teachers express the concept of joy as it relates to art. Students create miniature, wearable eye portraits to gift to family and friends; collaborate with professional artists on an annual pen pal drawing project; assemble mixed-media boxes based on their favorite mythological stories; create highly individualized large-scale portraits; respond to street art and local mural festivals; and more.
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