1. In a short response on the blog post your response to the article and the video as you think about how the artist's inspirations inform his creative process. Choose two quotes or ideas that stood out to you?
"I don't feel the burden to try and make things accessible to the widest audience that I can, because the widest audience is code for white American". -https://www.arts.gov/stories/blog/2018/art-talk-filmmaker-sky-hopinka
One of the things that I like about Sky Hopinka is he isn't afraid to say what's on his mind and say it how it is like this quote right here from the article. I can see where he is coming from because in society we may think that in order to make something become successful it has to appeal to a wider demographic in this case "White America" and that simply doesn't have to be the case. Another reason as to why I truly admire Sky Hopinka is because he doesn't feel or need the pressure of making his films for a mainstream audience as he is comfortable in making the type of content that he likes to do and that is focusing more for the Native American demographic. He is focusing on the audience that understands things about certain belief systems or certain cultural values or certain communities that may have been oppressed, that may still be trying to figure out what their trajectory holds for them. Furthermore I would say for a film maker who isn't mainstream, he has done really good for him self in terms of being successful such as his work being shown at the Sundance Film Festival, the Whitney Biennial, ImagineNATIVE Media + Arts Festival, and the Ann Arbor Film Festival, among others.
"It's always challenging in critiques when you don't know if the feedback they're giving is part of what they want to make, or they're trying to help you realize what you want to make" - https://www.arts.gov/stories/blog/2018/art-talk-filmmaker-sky-hopinka
I definitely understand where Sky Hopinka is coming from sometimes it's a challenge to face certain critiques in your work especially when they may tell you to change multiples things in your work and you might not want to since you may think it looks good while someone else may think the change is necessary. In my early years in college I wasn't a big fan of my work being critiqued as I felt they simply just didn't understand the vision that I was going for in my work, but overtime as I grew as a designer I realized that critiques are very important in ones work as it is a guide for me to make my work even better than what it originally was from the beginning.
2. How does Sky Hopinka use his medium of choice?
After reading the article about Sky Hopinka, I noticed his medium of choice was primarily him using film when he was living in Portland, Oregon at the time and he also pursued this path of making films when he was learning Chinuk Wawa, A language native to the Columbia River Basin. In addition, Sky likes to work with indigenous history and myths as well as traditional beliefs for his videos. He also likes to use alot of language and storytelling when it comes to approach a video and he continues to use it in many different ways. Lastly Sky Hopinka likes to film pieces together inorder to create video footage, audio recordings, and archival material to investigate concepts of language, landscape, and identity, as well as the mythology and traditions of the Ho-Chunk Nation.
3. What inspired him to use video?
In the article, Sky Hopinka explains how if he's on a trip for example, he'll usually have a camera with him, even when he's driving around he'll be looking for something that he would want to shoot from whether its a powwow, a lighthouse, or even if its him just walking around. Sky would also gather what he feels is interesting to him and not just shoot because he has alot of space in his memory card. Reading through the article I can tell he also gets inspiration from his native heritage and that drive's him to make the videos that he specifically wants to make for his people, the Native American people.
4. What material/medium/process do you use and how?
I generally like to make my work in Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop as these are the 2 programs where I feel like I make my best work and I feel the most comfortable using. Ill usually find inspiration on the internet, find a specific design or style that I want to create in my own way, choose what color palette that I want use for my design and then when I feel confident and ready Ill go on either Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop to start my design process.
5. What inspired you to make your work that way?
I was inspired to make graphic design work when I first started college back in my Hudson County Community College days when I was taking graphic design courses there. From there I was learning how to use Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop with a mix of Adobe InDesign. Overtime as I kept growing as a Graphic Designer I knew then that I wanted to create a variety of things to become more versatile within my work such as creating logos, flyers, and posters at the time.
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