25 Ideas

1) Demoralize a well-known fairytale by revealing its "dark side" in a watercolor and ink piece.

2) Create a collage about society's pressure on young women pertaining to the ideal body image.*

3) Create a satirical cartoon critiquing gun violence.*

4) Create an assemblage sculpture of a "memory box" representing the moments in time that shape someone's life.*

5) Invent a new code or language using shapes and create stories through a series of abstract pieces.*

6) Appropriate the work of Andy Warhol by modernizing his Marilyn Monroe prints and choosing an alternative iconic figure.*

7) Show a personal daily ritual through a collection of photographs.*

8) Create an ink drawing linking humans and nature by personifying trees as people.

9) Show how a single colors can convey a certain emotions through a series of monochromatic nonobjective paintings.

10) Using only line, depict a lifespan of a person and the different "frequencies" one experiences throughout life.

11) Explore the power of repetition to show a type of social conformity.

12) Create an idealized fantasy world using mixed media.

13) Create a dream series of watercolor paintings.

14) Create a textured oil painting of a phobia and the emotional stress surrounding it.

15) Paint a collection of "ugly" objects with beautiful execution to comment on different perspective.

16) Explore how different fonts alter text's connotations through a typography piece.

17) Evoke the feeling of love/hate through a blind abstract painting.

18) Turn language into image by capturing the main idea of a poem or song through a single scene.

19) Create a diptych portrait of what someone looks like on the outside vs. how they feel on the inside.

20) Create an oil painting depicting silence.

21) Show how technology is consuming society through collage.

22) Play with gender roles by staging a male in a "female environment" and visa-versa through photography.*

23) Using photoshop, create grotesque glamour shots through excessive editing to show how advertisements mislead.

24) Represent a choreographed dance through a painting.

25) Create an artistic book about secrets.