Elizabeth Beese

Elizabeth Beese - Joke to break the ice

• The importance of being art.
• Metamorphoses of Ovid and children (the works influenced by) got into a fight, who would win?
• The power of art is huge
• small reactants = large products

Kari Bowles

Kari Bowles - Personal Epic Poem

• In and Out Burger (It is worth the wait!)
• San Bernadino, CA with her grandfather and sister who worked at Disneyland in a POS car, Beatles marathon on the radio, went through the twelve labors (trials), but succeeded in the end to complete her epic poem.

Maggie Casey

Maggie Casey -

• White(maiden), Red(mother), and Dark Goddess(crone) (thanks for the cookies)
• Psyche (maiden then mother)
• Crone - Golden Ass (Bandit woman)

Steve Liss

Steve Liss - Art is a reflection and it lies

• Rembrant self portrait (50), 6 etchings and several scetches.
• Narcissus & Echo
• Man is a recursion of matter
• art is man reflecting himself in matter
• Pygmalion ----> Narcissus
• the creator of art perceives that it has a voice, but it is the voice of the artist.

Samantha Clanton

Samantha Clanton - Narrative how the myths come alive in her life.

• Fate made her late.
• She was abducted by Sutter, whisked away in a white chariot to the Yellowstone
• They were floating down the river, Sutter had a sudden anagnorsis, they were lost
• Samantha felt like Phaethon 15 miles down the river, cold, it was windy, and she was hungry.
• Tiresias = John (stranger, not another character from class) saved them by taking them back to the car.
• They were rewarded with milkshakes.
• Samantha is glad that she has Sutter to make a Scapegoat.

Sutter Stremmel

Sutter Stremmel - degrees of separation between Persephone and a jar of pickles.

• Sparagmos to Sybil put in a jar that made Sutter think of pickles.
• This is too in depth a thing for me to write.

Cassi Mari Clampitt

Cassi Mari Clampitt - The many rapes of Zeus

• Alcemene
• Leto
• Diane
• Europa
• Io (Priestess of Hera)
• Maia
• Semele (Consented)
• Ganymede (not raped, abducted to become Zeus's cup bearer.
• Callisto (turned to bear) - Ursa Major and son is Ursa Minor (big and little dipper).
• 150 known rapes of Zeus.
• Gods can do anything that they want.
• Zeus + Leta = Helen = War = Literature = Us here!