E Marshall lives and works in New Orleans, Louisiana. E’s work skips across many mediums and materials. Currently they are producing large drawings and paintings on paper. The joy of making marks is the driving force behind E’s work and it surfs on the boundary between memory and identity as it relates to the physical, drawn surface.

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I am teaching an intro art class this semester. Getting over the anxiety of standing in front of 15-20 people and TEACHING them something was very hard for me. I didn’t think I had anything to teach them. Most of my students are not that much younger than me and I was intimidated by my lack of experience. I came to realize that I only have to facilitate an environment for them to experiment and structure the class to have conversations about what they make. I want to demystify the process of making and create an environment where we all learn from each other. Often times things that my students make or composition choices they stumble upon make their way into my work.

Today we investigated the basic principle of line. We tried to make as many different types of lines we could with various materials. Here are some pictures of my students’ work. The prompt was to draw an object with that object. They all went outside and found 3 things. Then they had to dip those things in ink and make a drawing of that object with itself. Some really nice things happened.