Overall from Boston Arts Academy I have learned steps to get my work up to professional standards and techniques that lead to me finding my own artistic style. My junior year I began to find deep meanings for my work, and the way I portrayed the meanings allowed me gain an exceptional level of ingenuity. My work has improved in standards with proportion, value, contrast, composition, and color choice because of the process I took as an artist/scholar. Being already passionate about art as a freshman, I took advantage of all the advice, lessons, and opportunities given to me to improve as an artist. In figure drawing, the same steps (determining a composition… including a light source) were repeated several times, so they’ve become second nature to me. Entering BAA, my color choice started out as loud vivid colors that wouldn’t match what was in front of me for no specific reason. As I took more risks with color, my color choice along with the medium would be strictly chosen to connect with the meaning behind each piece. The production of my work now is less for the passion for art but more for desire to express myself and illustrate my inner beliefs. A lot of the work I will be displaying will reveal characteristics about me (specifically my body and habbits) and will show my admirations. I will have very little textile work in the show, though textile design is what I want to pursue in. After graduation, one my priorities is to make more textile work because I will be majoring in Fibers at UMass Dartmouth.