Morgan Cope- Personal Adornment Day

I Chose to attend the 7th annual personal adornment day & make-up extravaganza on Thursday March 31st in the HAAS Gallery. I wasn't really sure what to expect as I was walking to go up the stairs in the gallery. When I first walked in the hallway was set up like a run way with rows of chairs lined up against the walls. When the show first stared there was a guest artist and her name was Erin Endicott, they introduced Erin and informed us with some background information about her,what she does and her accomplishment. Which one of these accomplishments is writing a book titled "fabric arts design book 7" I think that the show was set up in a good way using the hallway as the run way, the other thing I would've changed was to maybe have more room and more seats.

The show was first set up with 2 performances that dealt with 2 problems going on in our society today. The first performance came off to me as it was about gangs fighting and bringing other people in the gangs. I also think that the gang was the "bloods" since they were wearing all red. The 2nd performance seems to be about some type of slavery, they brought out a boy and chained him up in front of everyone for him to be ashamed. I wasn't too sure why there was performances at an art fashion show but I liked that they had it. They only thing I think I would have changed and liked better about it was if I could have seen it better and if the performances were longer.

There were 35 different artist and each had 1 or more outfits that they had made to present in the show. Each artist has an outfit, or "wearable art" that had a title to their work, I noticed that the title of their work somehow was some how represented in the outfit. Also their work had a powerful meaning behind the title and the piece of art. The thing that I liked the most about how the outfits were constructed with everyday household items or items that you wouldn't normally wear, not all items were something you could pick up and just glue on. They toke a lot of hard work to make the outfits and plan out how the wanted to present the outfits to the audience. I had a couple favorite of pieces, the first piece I really liked was "the window washer" by Kyle Ale. I think this was a comical piece and it made me laugh but I really liked how he presented it. The second one I really liked was "Alive" by Olivia Deranco, the meaning behind it was about her eating some kind of meat and realizing that there was other things out there too eat like pastas. She made a wreath that she wore around her neck that has all types of pasta on it. The last piece I really like and I think was my favorite was "Barbie 2 point- uh oh" by Melanie Ortiz, the meaning behind her piece was about girls being obsessed looking a certain way when a lot of people how they look in today's world is fake. She made a plastic dress and had arrows written all over her body to indicate that a lot of people now days change everything about themselves