Highlights

December2010-Feb 2011
- graduated..woo hoo, so, I've got a semester "off" but I'm staying in Oxford, working on lots of art!
-video accepted into Oxford Film Fest!
-preparing Africa photos for the Uganda Project

-preparing grad school applications all X-mas break

-honorable mention at the Oxford Film Fest awards Sat. night!

- accepted in the MCAC- 1photo, 1video, & 1computer image

-best of computer imagery category at MCAC!

-another photo published in Photographer's Forum!

-the Student Art Association award (& $100!)

-got to see some of my Tanzania photos on display in the show!

Lots of good things happening to me all at once... I'm shocked!

*Update*

finished grad apps feb. 1st deadlines.... right now, I'm looking @ schools in Montana, Colorado, Louisiana, Alaska, Florida, and Texas.... will I end up at any of these places? Not sure!

Biggest highlight:The Oxford Film festival. What an AMAZING weekend. This was my first time being IN a film festival. I had my "director" pass for all the events. I arrived to pick up my VIP pass, and the girl at the table asked me which one I had. I rather meekly said "Director" and began to receive a lot of attention-hah! I guess even art students get a little recognition every now and then ;)

I felt like a proud parent when I saw a clipping from my video, "Flutter" was used in the mail trailer of the event. I got my first rush of adrenaline. Flutter screened two days later on Saturday in the experimental category, and it was really a learning experience as much as a good time. I got to do a Q&A afterwards, and of course see tons of great films, and meet some big time filmmakers, in addition to a couple of fellow "experimental" filmmakers!

a taste of tanzania atmosphere

Two years after my 2009 Tanzania trip, I had the opportunity to collaborate on an exhibiton with photographer Brooke White on a department a theatre/ art collaboration!

The Uganda Project: Come & See—Go & Tell

Mississippi: The Dance Company presents a multimedia dance/theater collaboration. Inspired by their humanitarian missions to Uganda, Professor Jennifer Mizenko and Assistant Professor of Art Brooke White are bringing their different experiences of Uganda to the stage in dance, music, and photography. This collaboration between The Department of Theatre Arts and the Department of Art will expose the audience to the heart and soul of Uganda: its beauty, its complexity, its people, and especially its children. Photography by Jaime Johnson and Brooke White

Here's a photo of the show. Images were displayed on the three panels of fabric throughout the production!

Flutter: bfa thesis exhibition