{"id":9772,"date":"2023-06-30T08:58:05","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T13:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin-new\/?post_type=campus_story&p=9772"},"modified":"2023-06-30T08:58:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T13:58:54","slug":"uw-green-bay-an-artist-rediscovers-her-muse","status":"publish","type":"campus_story","link":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/story\/uw-green-bay-an-artist-rediscovers-her-muse\/","title":{"rendered":"UW-Green Bay: An artist rediscovers her muse"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kasie Lin Bazan, Art major, poses with two pieces of her artwork inside Studio Arts’ 407 Gallery. UW-Green Bay, Sue Pischke University Photographer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kasie Lin Bazan still remembers her first art exhibition, on the family refrigerator. \u201cMy mom, especially, has always been very encouraging with my art and signed me up for art classes when I was younger. So, I assumed that I was as good as Leonardo or anybody else.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cLiving in Nature, Part 1\u201d Medium: Dry point etch print on paper.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With her mom\u2019s encouragement and DaVinci\u2019s inspiration, Bazan enrolled in art classes as a child and quickly discovered her natural talent. \u201cI\u2019ve been painting and creating works since I could hold a paintbrush,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

And there\u2019s still a child-like imagination to her art. Elegantly drawn images that glimpse into a world where an apple may possess a core of wood surrounded by field or a fanciful village scene constructed of arms, hands, and legs. Bazan\u2019s influence? Only the space and opportunity to create\u2014 \u201cTo me, a canvas is a portal to another world where I have full creative control.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now Bazan has the opportunity to take her creativity to the next level, graduating with a\u00a0bachelor\u2019s degree in art<\/a>\u00a0with a pre-emphasis in art therapy.<\/p>\n

Even with family support, finding that opportunity and feeling in control has often been a daunting challenge. Bazan grew up near Louisville, Kentucky, struggling with anxiety and ADHD. She attended the University of Kentucky in 2010, majoring in art education, but didn\u2019t connect with the prospect of teaching. \u201cI just wasn\u2019t drawn to it as much,\u201d she recalls. \u201cI stopped\u2014just getting my associate\u2019s degree until I could figure out what it was that I actually wanted to do with art.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cLiving in Nature, Part 2\u201d Medium: Dry point etch print on paper.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then life happened\u2014a decade\u2019s worth. She had a son and moved to Sheboygan, where her parents had relocated. She worked in the retail world but couldn\u2019t give up on the calling of her art. \u201cI decided to come back to college to finish my degree, after 10 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bazan enrolled in 2021 and immersed herself into new disciplines\u2014printmaking, photography, and sculpture at the Manitowoc campus\u2014under the tutelage of Professor Emeritus Beryl Lutsky (now retired) and Associate Professor Lisa Wicka. Ironically, the COVID lockdown made returning to college easier. She began with an online painting class.<\/p>\n

But even working remotely, Bazan experienced a level of faculty\/student engagement that was absent from her first college experiences at a larger university.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was the professors who go that extra step further,\u201d she recalls. \u201cIf I had taken a photograph and thought, \u2018it would be really cool if I was able to turn into a print, but I don\u2019t know how to do that,\u2019 the professors there would be like, oh, well, we got this. Let\u2019s do that. And they would literally teach me how to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cTo the core\u201d Medium: Digital<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

All these different techniques she learned\u2014from sewing and textiles to printmaking or painting\u2014led Bazan to discover a new path beyond her own art and the next step in her professional development. \u201cI would love to be able to share with people how to do some of those things as part of art therapy.\u201d<\/p>\n

And now, having rediscovered her muses, she\u2019s not about to let them slip away again. \u201cIt will take me a little bit of time after graduation to work on and show my art.\u201d And though graduation is a milestone to celebrate, she won\u2019t abandon her new mission to help others seek their better world through art. \u201cI would love for everyone to know that a 38-year-old single mother with ADHD was able to get through college.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Written by Michael Shaw<\/p>\n

Link to original story: https:\/\/news.uwgb.edu\/featured\/05\/09\/an-artist-rediscovers-her-muse\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kasie Lin Bazan still remembers her first art exhibition, on the family refrigerator. \u201cMy mom, especially, has always been very encouraging with my art and signed me up for art classes when I was younger. So, I assumed that I was as good as Leonardo or anybody else.\u201d With her mom\u2019s encouragement and DaVinci\u2019s inspiration, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":9779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","institution":[111],"story_category":[],"class_list":["post-9772","campus_story","type-campus_story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","institution-uw-green-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/campus_story\/9772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/campus_story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/campus_story"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"institution","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/institution?post=9772"},{"taxonomy":"story_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story_category?post=9772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}