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Hola!
My name is Marina Gonzalez Mazo, I am a Junior from Spain.
I am a student athelte in the rifle team for UAF. I am majoring in a BFA with emphasis on jewelry and digital desing. I am taking this clas as part of my general requirements.

I see myself as a designer, not quite confident yet to call myself an artist. I love sculpting as small as I can, usually for jewelry pieces. I draw on digital software and I do grapgic desing. I love goint to museums, I usually pay for the guided visit or the audio version of them. The reason why I took interest in arts is because I wanted to learn and study the artist that is behind the pices.

It is a Modernist jewlery piece from Luis Masriera 
(Image from Wikipedia)

Here is a Link to a contemporary artist that ispires me, Marina Salazar.

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Comments

  1. MarinaJanuary 26, 2023 at 11:36 PM

    Whoa Marina! It's me!!! Marina from 10 mins ahead!! Did you know that our comment section works? It's true I just checked!

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  2. The Ukulele FoolJanuary 27, 2023 at 8:11 AM

    Ooo! That jewelry piece is very Art Nouveau. We will study that this semester. Loved the figurines Marina Salazar does. I especially liked the Rococo style figurine with the Metallica shirt and a beer.

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  3. Claire MontagueJanuary 30, 2023 at 9:07 PM

    Hi Marina, I really liked your first blog post. I think that designing jewelry would be an awesome job. I also really like to get the audio packs when I go to a museum. I like to be able to listen to the history and stories behind the artifacts that I am looking at. I hope that you do well this semester.

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  4. Clara CheneyJanuary 30, 2023 at 11:54 PM

    I think that's amazing you like to sculpt small pieces of art. That cannot be easy, that is definitely not my strong suit. I love getting the audio packs when I go to museums too, it makes things more interactive for me.

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  5. Abdurahman HassanJanuary 31, 2023 at 12:46 AM

    Oye Senora Mazo! Buenas noches! Glad to have you in our class; and welcome! Nice to know you're fascination with art. Speaking of Spain, Spain has rich history of producing of quality art, and it is evident by some of the paintings that are exhibited in Spainard history, culture, and traditions. You get drawn to Spainard history when looking closely at fine pieces of Spainard art. It's quite a treat to explore this area of art history.

    Abdurahman

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