Stephanie Sumler

@samanthastephaniepaper

Maybe I should give the green cat some homegirls

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CARD & LINER

I’ve been in Nevada for a while now and felt the store that I work at needed tourism cards. We get a lot of customers -- both far away and near that request them.  

I felt like a fraud making these because I thought I knew nothing about Nevada. I made myself a traitor to my previous hometown, Monterey County because I’ve never made tourism cards when I lived there. 

However, my attitude about making tourism cards in Monterey was, “IT’S SUCH AN EASY and UNORIGINAL SELL.” I was super ungrateful to even think about my admiration of home through art. 

When making my Nevada cards (with ink, watercolor, and embossing powders), I felt a sense of pride and thought, “WOW, I LIVE IN THE DESERT and it’s beautiful.” Living in the desert was nothing I thought about doing while living by the Pacific Ocean.  I felt regret for not taking this much pride in the lush greenery and coastal lines of the Monterey Bay. When I lived there, I was always outside and didn’t draw any landscapes, as I did here in Vegas. 

Tourism cards are an easy sell for the locals and visitors because it is a sentiment of pride for their hometown or visit. Doesn’t matter how awful or too simple “home” is translated through the art process, just as long as “heart” was felt when making them. 

DIGITAL WORK

July 2016

At the City of Seaside, my supervisor Sandra Gray assigned me to teach a mural class. The mural was made on the fence at the mini golf course at the Youth Center at 1136 Wheeler Street.  I NEVER TAUGHT A MURAL CLASS, nor have A STRONG background in painting.  

Thanks Adam Gota (pictured) for assisting me!

NITE FREEKZ

Hair Affair 

2015

I had the privilege to learn from professional cinematographers (Frederich Goodrich, Vilmos Zsigmond, and Bruce Logan) as my first FILM SCHOOL experience at CSU-Summer Arts Experience with the Masters.