Hi, I'm Angela!I’m a Designer, Educator & Multimedia Artist.
With a BFA in Digital Media with an emphasis on Motion Graphics from Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, California, my love for art has enabled me to work as a designer. My passion is to create a new perspective on art and media through my own life experiences. My desire is to expand my skills through creativity and imagination by taking on adventures and exploring the world. As a teacher, I want to teach my students to understand that strong character is equally important as the work they produce. I also love to help students to improve their drawing skills, express ideas with confidence, and develop analytical skills in problem-solving. I believe each student has the potential to change the world through their talent and imagination. When I'm not working, you can find me with family, volunteering, exploring new places, and being with children and dogs.
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Artist Statement
My artworks illustrate a storyline of me, who I am, and my surroundings. I aim to utilize my creativity by employing 2D, 3D, lens-based, time-based, and digital screen-based forms in my work. As a child, I loved to draw. I participated in many art activities including contests, community services, and art classes every weekend. My passion for drawing and storytelling has increased as I grow older, and art has become a big part of my identity. I believe art is the best approach to express and communicate the hope and meaning of life without using words or descriptions. Ultimately, I want to use art to exemplify the way people feel about their surroundings. As an artist and designer, I aspire to search for the best tools to help others experience gratitude, hope, and joy through art.
Traditional art has offered me countless ways to express and explore creativity. From a variety of mediums - collage, ink, acrylic, mixed media, oil, colored pencils, watercolor, and printmaking, creating illustrations is not only a tool to convey memories, affections, imaginations, and ambitions, but also a way to breathe life and conversations into the greater audience. College introduced digital media to me and helped me to have a deeper understanding of film production. Fascinated by how text and graphic imagery can be animated to create dynamic movement, I started to immerse myself in motion graphics. The visuals and narratives of animated films and TV series have inspired me to pursue motion graphics. I started using motion graphics to tell my stories and to keep my imagination alive. Through animation, I am able to retell stories in another form and keep my viewers visually engaged.
After college, I continued to search for the best tools to express my identity, life stories, and experiences through art. I found UI and UX design as an outlet to combine traditional art and animations. The technique allows me to create detailed and visually attractive websites and mobile app interfaces to express positive messages. Being a UI and UX designer allows me to create an entire visual interaction to engage and motivate the viewers.
Over the years, I have gained extensive knowledge of visual communication, illustration, design, and animation. A simple and minimal art style remains the best method to express thoughts, perspectives, and experiences with others. Throughout my art journey, I hope to bring comfort, understanding, and inspiration to people by interpreting stories through colorful artwork. I want to create positive artworks that influence people to see a different perspective of hope. As an artist and designer, I will keep on creating positive art to express affection and happiness in hopes for people to see a different perspective on life.
Traditional art has offered me countless ways to express and explore creativity. From a variety of mediums - collage, ink, acrylic, mixed media, oil, colored pencils, watercolor, and printmaking, creating illustrations is not only a tool to convey memories, affections, imaginations, and ambitions, but also a way to breathe life and conversations into the greater audience. College introduced digital media to me and helped me to have a deeper understanding of film production. Fascinated by how text and graphic imagery can be animated to create dynamic movement, I started to immerse myself in motion graphics. The visuals and narratives of animated films and TV series have inspired me to pursue motion graphics. I started using motion graphics to tell my stories and to keep my imagination alive. Through animation, I am able to retell stories in another form and keep my viewers visually engaged.
After college, I continued to search for the best tools to express my identity, life stories, and experiences through art. I found UI and UX design as an outlet to combine traditional art and animations. The technique allows me to create detailed and visually attractive websites and mobile app interfaces to express positive messages. Being a UI and UX designer allows me to create an entire visual interaction to engage and motivate the viewers.
Over the years, I have gained extensive knowledge of visual communication, illustration, design, and animation. A simple and minimal art style remains the best method to express thoughts, perspectives, and experiences with others. Throughout my art journey, I hope to bring comfort, understanding, and inspiration to people by interpreting stories through colorful artwork. I want to create positive artworks that influence people to see a different perspective of hope. As an artist and designer, I will keep on creating positive art to express affection and happiness in hopes for people to see a different perspective on life.
Philosophy of Education
As an art educator, I believe it is important to understand and accept that every student has a different learning ability, behavior, maturity, personality, and attitude. My goal as an art educator is not only to accept students as they are, but also to enhance students’ art knowledge, success, and understanding of finding their own identity as an artist. My goal is for my students to live creative lives, not be afraid to be themselves, and be expressive through art. I strive to be a teacher who can be patient, loving, and caring as I guide young learners to utilize their creativity with a diverse range of art media types such as modern, traditional, 2D, 3D or digital. I want to be a teacher who aims to challenge students to think outside of the box.
“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong” (Joseph Chilton Pearce). This is a statement that I strongly believe in. As an artist and educator, I tend to struggle to be creative, but I believe those struggles will make me and my artworks stronger. I want my students to see that teachers are not perfect. I want them to understand failures are accepted in my classroom. I believe in Progressivism Philosophy that students learn by doing. Students are individual learners, problem solvers, and thinkers who have the freedom to create and be themselves. Although it will be challenging to be an artist, mentor, educator, and role model at the same time, I will demonstrate effective teaching methods by being supportive to my students. As a result, students will be able to have the confidence to develop their own identities and artworks.
I strive to become an effective art teacher by being consistent and reliable. My classroom setting will be a safe, caring, organized, and supportive space. I will create an environment that encourages students to love and appreciate visual arts and design. I believe having an established value and a strong support classroom atmosphere will help students mentally, emotionally, physically, and academically in their future. I will assemble the classroom in hopes to increase motivation, inspiration, and increasing joy. I also believe maintaining great relationships with students and their parents will benefit students’ ability to succeed.
I will also help students to take away the mental obstacles of thinking creating art is hard. I will encourage them to have confidence and believe in themselves. I will establish a class that supports and encourages students while using multiple instructional strategies. I will have a cohesive learning environment for students to create their own experimentation and art-making practice. Guiding students to become independent creators with artistic skills and knowledge will help them to enjoy individual and group projects. From my previous teaching experiences, I believe having an objective every day will help me explore ways to help students effectively reflect on their work. I have seen evidence of self-reflection through students engaging in self-evaluation and peer critiques.
In order to help students to prepare for the real world and find their identity as an artist, I will encourage students to be immersed in different experiences by keeping myself motivated and inspired in the art professional and education world. In addition, I will provide all the help students need to sustain experimentation with a variety of mediums and techniques to have the ability to select art-making materials and media appropriate to stated intentions. My goal as an art educator is to support students in developing their ideas, skills, processes, and techniques to find their own identities as an individual and an artist.
“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong” (Joseph Chilton Pearce). This is a statement that I strongly believe in. As an artist and educator, I tend to struggle to be creative, but I believe those struggles will make me and my artworks stronger. I want my students to see that teachers are not perfect. I want them to understand failures are accepted in my classroom. I believe in Progressivism Philosophy that students learn by doing. Students are individual learners, problem solvers, and thinkers who have the freedom to create and be themselves. Although it will be challenging to be an artist, mentor, educator, and role model at the same time, I will demonstrate effective teaching methods by being supportive to my students. As a result, students will be able to have the confidence to develop their own identities and artworks.
I strive to become an effective art teacher by being consistent and reliable. My classroom setting will be a safe, caring, organized, and supportive space. I will create an environment that encourages students to love and appreciate visual arts and design. I believe having an established value and a strong support classroom atmosphere will help students mentally, emotionally, physically, and academically in their future. I will assemble the classroom in hopes to increase motivation, inspiration, and increasing joy. I also believe maintaining great relationships with students and their parents will benefit students’ ability to succeed.
I will also help students to take away the mental obstacles of thinking creating art is hard. I will encourage them to have confidence and believe in themselves. I will establish a class that supports and encourages students while using multiple instructional strategies. I will have a cohesive learning environment for students to create their own experimentation and art-making practice. Guiding students to become independent creators with artistic skills and knowledge will help them to enjoy individual and group projects. From my previous teaching experiences, I believe having an objective every day will help me explore ways to help students effectively reflect on their work. I have seen evidence of self-reflection through students engaging in self-evaluation and peer critiques.
In order to help students to prepare for the real world and find their identity as an artist, I will encourage students to be immersed in different experiences by keeping myself motivated and inspired in the art professional and education world. In addition, I will provide all the help students need to sustain experimentation with a variety of mediums and techniques to have the ability to select art-making materials and media appropriate to stated intentions. My goal as an art educator is to support students in developing their ideas, skills, processes, and techniques to find their own identities as an individual and an artist.
THANK YOU!
The best thing about teaching is learning.