Natalie Hazzard's Art Portfolio

Dear Scholarship Committee,

Hi, my name is Natalie Hazzard, I’m writing to you to ask for an art scholarship. I expect to attend Whitworth University in the fall of 2019 and wish to go into the graphic design path for 2-D or illustrative art specifically. My work revolves around illustrative work focusing on my and other peoples experiences. With my art, I hope to express other worldviews that a person might not have had or think about; to help people empathize with one another. My work is mainly mixed media with a tendency towards a combination of inks and watercolors, and I sometimes work with collages. As of now, I am working on a series of tarot cards that relate to my life as a person with anxiety. I have in the past gotten two awards for my art in my state fair’s youth art division. I hope you will consider me for the art scholarship and I do wish to attend Whitworth for my college of choice. My email is xxxxxxxx and my phone number is xxxxxxxx if you wish to communicate further. Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,

Natalie Hazzard

NATALIE JENNIFER HAZZARD
Street Address
Scottsdale, AZ 85251
email@gmail.com
(480)xxx-xxxx

PROFILE

Award-winning Student Artist skilled in numerous media, including pen & ink, graphite, charcoal, watercolor, collage, oils, and acrylics. Successfully creates portraits, still life, and landscapes utilizing all subject matter.

HONORS

First Place, Mixed Media, TEMPE ARTS FESTIVAL CHILDREN’S DIVISION, 2019

Second Place, Charcoal, ARIZONA STATE FAIR CHILDREN’S DIVISION, 2017

Second Place, Collage, ARIZONA STATE FAIR CHILDREN’S DIVISION, 2017

Featured Artist, Scottsdale Unified School District Fall Art Show, 2018

Featured Artist, Scottsdale Unified School District Spring Art Show, 2018

Featured Artist, Scottsdale Unified School District Fall Art Show, 2017

Featured Artist, Scottsdale Unified School District Spring Art Show, 2017

Featured Artist, Scottsdale Unified School District Fall Art Show, 2016

Featured Artist, Scottsdale Unified School District Spring Art Show, 2016

Featured Artist, Scottsdale Unified School District Fall Art Show, 2015

ACADEMICS

SAGUARO HIGH SCHOOL, Scottsdale, Arizona
High School Diploma, Expected May 2019
GPA: 3.083 ~ Art GPA: 4.0
ACT: 21

ELEANOR A. ROBB CHILDREN’S ART WORKSHOP – ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, Tempe, Arizona
September 2006 to November 2018

ACTIVITIES

MEMBER
GIRL SCOUTS OF THE USA, 2006-2017
Girl Scouts included making an abundance of arts and crafts that we would often donate to the community. To name a few, I volunteered for The Salvation Army, St. Mary’s Food Bank, Feed My Starving Children, and knitted hats along with throwing a Christmas party for homeless women in my community. I also received the Bronze Award.

MEMBER
Art Club, SAGUARO HIGH SCHOOL, 2015-2017
We created and donated clay pots to our community for their charity auction.

MEMBER
Art Club, MOHAVE MIDDLE SCHOOL, 2013-2015

My work mainly is illustrative focusing on a scene or an environment, though most of the time I draw figures or humans. I work with thin layers of watercolor and build up from there. I focus on people because the reason I got into art was for the storytelling aspect of it. The characters in my art often tend to be part of another bigger piece from a specific story idea I have. In some of my recent work, I chose to pick individualize tarot cards because I admire how tarot cards and playing cards are pieces of art of the common person, not nobility, not millionaires, just people, and how art continues in peoples everyday lives with the air of prestige about it.

I usually work with graphite and watercolor in my art, though I do like working with charcoal. I use mixed media because I like how different media’s can work together to create a finished piece. A recent medium I have been using a lot is ink and ink washes since I like how they are more opaque and stable then watercolor. I have a spontaneity when I work since there is a transformation to my beginning idea to the finished project, but I’ve learned to take that in stride and appreciate the transformation. I’ve learned that trying to stick with a vision and resist change can lead to some frustrating results so my work tends to adapt as it is being created.

What I try to communicate through my art is another experience. I wish to take my audience to another place with my art and have them feel and experience something they have never had before. People, as humans, want to experience everything they possibly can and art allows for a safer way to experience things we may have never been able to and that’s why I admire art. This is why I choose to focus on illustrative art more than anything else, to get an experience foreign to me, and then produce my experience to others so they might experience my life in a more palatable way.

In my current work I am working on producing a series of tarot cards with images of my life and how the meaning of the cards can be related to an American teenager with an anxiety disorder. While I know that my experience may not be entirely unique, the way a mental disorder does affect your life and how you interact with the world and the people in it. I plan on using fantastical elements in these pieces to depict the way someone would see the world and how it changes.

What I try to express through my art is the fluidity of art and the human experience by using a diverse array of materials, to discover more around other people.