Abbie White

Result-oriented Graphic Artist successful at applying technical skills to create art that informs and engages customers. Clear communicator and collaborative team player with an eye for detail and skill in customer relations.

- Wurfel  (GVSU Padnos Student Gallery) | February 2023

- Gallery show in which students presented a work of their choice to the public eye that offered an interactive element that was able to mesh with the gallery space. 

- Communicated with peers in order to create a cohesive show that portrayed the definition of the curriculum of the Space Studio course. 

- Created postcards, informational posters, and a gallery scavenger hunt that led the viewers through the show in an interesting way. 

- Created a suspended glass sculpture hanging multicolored glass to a large rainbow lamp allowing interesting patterns of reflection around the gallery space. 

- The S.A.P Show (GVSU Sustainable Agriculture Project) | March 2023 

- Worked as a class to create a show that revolved around the ideas of sustainability, agriculture, and the preserved life at the S.A.P farm.

- Created a painting called "The Visitor" which featured an adorable opossum who frequents the S.A.P. The students claimed him to be the mascot of the farm, so the painting was in honor of his presence.

- Worked together to properly map out show placement in such a vast area of land.
- Coordinated specific works of art with certain locations on the farm in order to add sentimental value to each aspect of the location.

- Artpost Installation (Downtown Grand Rapids ) | April 2023

- Created a solo, miniature exhibition in one of 6 artposts located in downtown Grand Rapids

- Hosted an inclusive body of work titled "Apprehensions" where students could participate by writing down their biggest fear on slips of paper that were located at several stations on both the downtown and Allendale campuses.

- Obtained over 3,000 anonymous responses in both hand written and online forms.

- Placed slips in the artpost for two weeks for passersby to read and acknowledge the fears that college students endure throughout their time in school.

- Belladonna VMA Show (GVSU Padnos Student Gallery ) | December 2023

- Cumulated a body of work that showed skill obtained over the 5 years studying in the illustration program at GVSU.

- Worked with two other students who were aiming to obtain their degrees in order to create a clean and clear show with our work that all had a seperate identity.

- Created a body of work titled "Sustainable Canvases" in which I created hand made and recycled seed paper canvases that were then painted in natural based paint.

- Illustrations were depictions of the flower that will emerge from the seed embedded in the paper.