Isha Gollapudi was born in Bloomington IL is fourteen years old and is a freshman at Normal Community Highschool. She paints mostly in acrylics and oils; which has sparked a passion for public art. She participated in local youth mural projects initiated by illinois art station in 2018 and 2019. She had the opportunity to work with the wonderful artolution team and learn from the famous muralist Joel Bergner in 2019 and the mural won the Bloomington City Beautification Award. She was given an opportunity to speak about the experience at the city hall and is a published artist in 2 of the celebrating art books. Since 2018 Isha has shown her artwork in multiple art shows at the Community Cancer Center and the historic Broadview Mansion with Art Circle of Bloomington-Normal. This fall Isha was one of the artists painting for the Chairs4Change fundraiser to benefit Recycling Furniture For Families and Habitat For Humanity. To Isha art elevates everything around it; your mood when you look at it, the possibilities that are brought upon by a new train of thought conducted by the art, and subsequently the community as it is lifted by the arts presence. Art is the actualized Midas touch without the nasty side effects.
Isha Gollapudi, Normal Community Highschool Student
Talk Summary: Art. An Introspective Journey.
While stories get twisted through iterations and text fades through time on the walls of caves, art has the unique ability to withstand the excessive force of time. Art can do this because — unlike texts and stories — art does not have just one intended message. Art, much like water, takes upon the container’s shape, the meaning that is prescribed to it by the viewer. In that way, art has every meaning possible and no meaning at the same time. This Ted Talk will explore the journeys that art can take you upon and the value of art in a quest to understand the human experience. I will accomplish this; first, by questioning what art is. Then by evaluating the disconnect between the piece and the viewing of it, I will show the inconclusive nature of art. Finally, by looking at what art can teach us about the evolutions of the human experience, we understand art as it was meant to be: with reverence and an understanding of the piece beyond the physical.
