2025 3D Art Gallery
BUENA PARK
GLIMPSE OF FLARE
Johnathan Pineda
Idea: How can we utilize recycled materials and create futuristic qualities for today’s fashion? Inspired by CDs and my love of vintage music, the fragmented rhythm of light and hues portrays a future and vintage stylistic vibe with a mix of soul.
Materials: Cds, silver tape, and scissors
Process: Deconstructed skinny jeans flipped & sewn together to build exaggerated flared pants. Added straps for the versatility of flair. Cut CDs for an abstracted, asymmetrical triangle top for a contrasting style to the pants, merging two eras into one.
BEYOND THE CLOUDS
Taylor Marshall
Idea: How can our connections help to better our life? Self growth and reconstruction. Beginning to flourish and leave past difficulties behind. Rising above my negative experiences.
Materials: Prismacolors, Acyrillic paint, Graphite, Soft pastels, Pattered and solid construction paper, Cardboard.
Process: Created multiple versions of one art piece. laid pieces out in a way to display a story and started to add scraps as a way to create texture. Recycled trash and cardboard and created the "base" / hill for the subject. Shaded the background to create a darker them and added sting to connect the piece.
FULLERTON UNION
THE ART OF KINTSUGI
Toby Swanson
Idea: I wanted to integrate a cultural aspect into my work. The art of kintsugi is used to repair and remake a piece of art work into something new, being reborn. I wanted to incorporate the design of kintsugi into my work and break and remake my art work. To give it new meaning and purpose.
Materials: Clay, Glaze, Epoxy, Gold Dust
Process: Throwing my form on the wheel and shaping and designing it. Cleaning up the shape and creating symmetry between the cups. Firing and glazing the art work to then be broken. Adding the epoxy and gold dust to reform it.
A VESSEL OF RECOLLECTION
Diana Alarcon
Idea: My idea was to create a jewelry box that held special generational pieces of jewelry. These pieces would symbolize memories. Memories of past loved ones, or even memories of events that the wearer had experienced. All of those memories are being held in one place.
Materials: Clay, water, Mayco Elements glaze and Mayco Stroke & Coat.
Process: First I started with a sketch on my sketchbook. Creating a draft of what it would roughly look like. Then I grabbed some clay to start the building process. After I let the clay harden, I began the building process. After I let it dry and had it fired. Then I glazed it with both Mayco Elements glaze and Stroke & Coat. Finally, I fired it again.
THE SNAPPING THRONE
Elijah Corban Vazquez
Idea: The original idea was to make a funny object/furniture with an "anatomically" correct mouth and eyes and see where that goes but after finishing the bottom jaw that idea went through the window.
Materials: wooden dowels, polymer clay, hard paper, paint, and wood glue
Process: I cut the dowels in roughly the right size glued them together cut hard paper to make the teeth on shaped the teeth/gums made sure most of the teeth lined up and worked on the back board gave it eyes baked them all and painted
LIBER ANIMARUM
Yvesie-Plum Rider, Ben Villalobos, & Evan Iniguez
Idea: To create a scary looking prop book for use in the Santa Fe Springs Lantern Tour - an annual haunt event to support the Library. The book was designed to spear made of skin, with the eyes of the souls trapped inside staring out. LEDs lit the interior's original artworks and the face of the reader.
Materials: Wooden book, plastic spine, liquid latex, polymer clay, cotton, tea-stained water color paper, ink, wire, arduino controllers, LEDs, switch, watercolors, 9V battery, acrylics
Process: The book was cut apart and reassembled, while the exterior was layered wit hliquid latex and stretched cotton. Polymer clay eyes were attached and sculpted cloth eyelids made. The book was wired to illuminate, while pages were sketched, inked and painted. Finally, all was assembled and a stand built to display the work.
FIREFLY LANTERN
Serena Nguyen
Idea: The idea behind this lantern was to create artwork resembling an animal that naturally produces light. Of the variety, I chose a firefly as they are interesting little insects. They are so small yet they are able to produce something magical; light.
Materials: Wood reeds, tape, wire, tissue paper, watercolor, acrylic paint, and hot glue
Process: I used simple shapes such as circles in my sketch to ease the process of bending complex shapes with wood reeds. I used a combination of thin wire and tape to connect each shape to form my firefly outline. After I used watercolor to paint tissue paper then I glued the paper to each section, using acrylic paint to add minor details.
BABY
Isabella Savage & Eadyn Ochoa
Idea: To create a plant monster costume that was scary and fun for the Santa Fe Springs Lantern Tour - a halloween event benefitting the library.
Materials: Foam clay, EVA foam, epoxy sculpting medium, pumpkins, bicylce helmet, nylon straps, plastic buckles., electric hot knife, epoxy adhesive, wood, wire, ghillie suit, acrylic paint. airbrush.
Process: Hot knife to shape pumpkins, formed teeth and gums, joined with epoxy adhesive, attached, petals, painted.
LA HABRA
BEATS OF INSANITY
Marley Rasmussen
Idea: I was inspired by Tell Tale Heart because I've always loved how creepy the story is. So I chose it as the idea behind my sculpture and I wanted to visualize the sound of the old man's heart beat with lighting to make it kind of eerie too.
Materials: Paper-mache book, LED lights
Process: I got a book from my teacher and ripped out a couple pages at a time to paper mache with for later. Then I cut up pieces of cardboard to make the bookshelf and other details on my project. After it was covered in paper mache I added the lights.
PORTRAIT QUILT
Lola Horan
Idea: My idea was to make a portrait out of fabric of actor and indie icon Chloe Sevigny.
Materials: Fabric, thread, batting, acrylic paint
Process: First I drew a paper template of my design, then used it as a guide to cut my fabric pieces. After sewing them together, I added details and shading using acrylic paint, then sewed on the backing.
THE RED SPOT
Giselle Lopez
Idea: This project was based on a scary short story about a spider bite.
Materials: Paper-mache book, LED lights, watercolor, hot glue
Process: I constructed the spider out of wire and paper mache, then built the furniture out of cardbord. I darkened the hole and spider with watercolor, added lights, and made webs of hot glue.
ALEBRIJE
Zoey Briceno
Idea: I was influenced by the movie Frankenweenie. It symbolizes beauty in death. I picked colors based off of Tim Burtons style. The pattern was inspired by Sally's dress. I chose to give him wings and sharp teeth.
Materials: Paper-mache and acrylic paint
Process: First, I sketched my idea, then I built the form out of newspaper and covered it with paper-mache. Last, I painted with acrylic paint and paint pen.
SELF-PORTRAIT IN FELT
Layla Mirabal
Idea: I was inspired by the trophy animal heads displayed by hunters, but I wanted to reverse it by showing a human. However, I didn't want it to be too graphic, so I did it in a more cartoony style.
Materials: Fabric, stuffing, thread
Process: I started by researching different techniques for puppet sewing and construction. I built the head first, then the plaque, and finished by adding the hair and details.
LA VISTA/LA SIERRA
A WALKTHROUGH OF MY LIFE THROUGH MY EYES
Vy Do
Idea: This is my favorite project. The first museum shows my childhood through baby and family photos. The second highlights Vietnam’s authenticity—rice hats, motorbikes, and Saigon. The third features my recreated Vietnamese vintage art. This project lets me creatively showcase my roots, and I’m proud of this accomplishment.
Materials: Photoshop, Xerox printer, cardboard, exactor, tape
Process: Gather photos, place in photoshop, print, cut and build.
SUNNY HILLS
HUMAN NATURE
Sydney Zarate
Idea: The prompt was “Nature”. Instead of doing physical nature like leaves, trees, etc, I thought “Human nature”. Human nature is a complex thing that I wanted to try to capture. I decided to only do it on one type of human nature which is evil.
Materials: Clay, glaze
Process: To capture the evil part of “human nature” I did a hand grasping a bleeding heart. Humans can be vulnerable and give their “heart out” to someone they trust. In the wrong hands you'll be trapped.
CORAL
Victoria Kim
Idea: Inspired by a documentary on dying coral reefs, I developed a passion for learning about them. Later, in my Special Studies 3-D Design class, we were tasked with creating a nature-inspired vessel, and I chose to craft a coral reef.
Materials: Clay, glaze
Process: I began by researching corals and vessels to explore my options. While forming, I focused on creating more negative spaces to highlight the coral’s uniqueness. During glazing, I used lines, gradients, and varied shades to add depth and visual interest.
ANCIENT BIRD WHISTLE
Ivan Visalles
Idea: I wanted to showcase ancient mesoamerican art styles and techniques into my work. I own Aztec whistles and wanted to replicate that in my own way by making a bird whistle. I combined that with a small vase to further add to the ancient art style
Materials: Ceramic, glaze
Process: I started with my idea and from there I researched mayan ceramics, Ancient Peruvian whistles and combined with knowledge from a museum visit created a sketch of the vase and whistle. Lastly I constructed the piece and glazed it with Mayan patterns.
TROY
WILL
Skylar Matthews
Idea: I wanted to do a mosaic of character I created and I thought it would be interesting to have something reaching for him from the dark
Materials: Ceramic, foam board, grout
Process: I used my original character to illustrate digitally as a mock up. Then I drew my design on my ipad and transformed it to foam board. I then mounted the mosaic pieces I fired on the foam board and grouted the black and white parts separately
BERRY PETTY
Paola Mendoza
Idea: Clay
Materials: Ceramics
Process: I found different different ideas of strawberry cookie jars to inspire me. I did a coil build to make the jar the height needed. I made the lid by hand because it needed to be precise. I then glazed and fired it.
WARRIOR PRIDE
Aubree Bradley
Idea: Me and my classmate wanted to create something that represents our school.
Materials: Ceramics
Process: My process for this piece was drawing out the Troy logo, then I rolled out clay tiles, fired and painted them and then glued them piece by piece to create the logo. Lastly, I filled all the empty space with grout.
MELTED LAVA
Angie Gutierrez
Idea: My idea was to make the piece look very trippy and make it have a psychedelic look to it as well. Very bright so it could stand out in a room full of projects of art
Materials: Clay
Process: First I got clay and started shaping it with my mushroom. Then I moved on trying to make it smooth and let it dry for two days. I then glazed it and painted it before putting it into the fire for another day.