Introduction
Hello viewers! My name is Hannah Garrard and this is my blog for Fall semester of MM-199-A at Washburn University. This blog will be covering art in our local area, mainly Topeka, Kansas City, and Lawrence. It will be focused on art from my perspective: pieces I have made, pieces my friends/classmates have made and their comments on them, places I have visited, classes I have taken, and so on. I have many people in my life who create daily, some making their annual income by doing so, and I want to expand on my knowledge of their creative way of thinking by writing about them and talking about their thoughts during the creating process. I chose this topic because I believe in the power of art. Though not usually seen as important as topics like math or science, art does something to people that these things do not; it makes you feel something. Art is powerful, raw, and diverse yet universally understood. As a whole, it is also a very wide subject area; from physical products like ...