Final Posters and Artist's Statments

Poster One

For consumption and the home I wanted to show the ability that residents in Winter Park have provided with the proximity of Park Avenue to their homes. Consumption is a large portion of every person’s life whether it is in food, clothing, or simple amenities for the home which are all provided on Park. Winter Park is an example of combining the home and consumption in a classy way where shops of varied tastes gives this unique experience of consumerism within walking distance to your home. I decided to place women in the forefront of this poster because shops in the area are tailored to women and the stay at home wife or mother.

Poster Two

For gender and the home I wanted to look towards an ideal family life that many people still strive for today. I found images of the perfect home and a typical Winter Park home that show case the ideal style of the city. I wanted to show the mother as the homemaker and other family members using a variety of spaces within the home. The laughing father surrounded by family as the center of their world seemed a stereotype that harkened back to more traditional home life of the 1950s. I also wanted to show a more contemporary version of the father as he might be in “the man cave,” along with a more traditional mother figure working on dinner while the father returns home to be greeted by his family. These representations of family from the past and present remind the viewer about the wide variety of gender roles associated with the home.

Poster Three

In the poster which addresses race and the home, I wanted to explore six Winter Park city founders, cultural personalities, and activists who may or may not be known, who embody different aspects of the diverse community of Winter Park. These include, Annie Russell, an artist and actress, who is well known for her theatrical contributions at Rollins; Eve Bacon, a newspaper writer and historian who helped found the Winter Park Memorial Hospital as well as the archives at the Winter Park Public library; Mary LeeDepugh, an activist and founder of the Ideal Women’s Club; and Winter Park city founders, Oliver Chapman, Loring Chase, and Gus Henderson. Henderson was an African American newspaper owner who led black citizens of Winter Park to vote for incorporation of Winter Park. I placed images of these individuals over a map of Winter Park as a way to help the viewer focus on the cultural, artistic, and education city they helped create.

Poster Four

For the real vs. Ideal home I had wanted to show a model home as the pristine beautiful home with organized and clean living areas that was picked and put together by me for a realistic ideal home space. Here in Winter Park the houses are well kept and dream like in qualities with trimmed and modern styles of architecture. The homes are unique and have a wide diversity of styles where no one style is too gaudy or expressive than another. But then there is the reality of not having time to clean or deal with everything. So I chose to add children drawing on the walls and screaming as well as a few miscellaneous clothing items and toys lying around on the chairs and floor.