S.Kabangai Q2 Art project

Artist Statement
Why you did what you did? What does it mean to you? What did you use to make it.

Hi my name is Samuel Kabangai, i attend school at Science Leadership Academy, i am the artist that created this design. For our second quarter project, we the students had a choice to pick our own art that we wanted to work on and a project that meant something to us.

I wanted the project that I choose to mean something and represent a part of me that I am proud of. I was born and raised in Sierra Leone west Africa and my African heritage is something that I am very proud of. Another thing that influenced my art was my name. I have a unique last name and all my friends and people i know have different ways to say my name. One of my friends Devonte Martin told me that my name can be a trade mark. The art that I decide to make is custom made shirts that had hand made drawings and different designs of the map of Africa and my name. I am a person that loves fashion and so I decided to put these designs on t-shirts that I can wear and so could other people.

The tools that I used to make my shirts  were things that can be used or acceded by anyone and they are affordable by anyone. During the process of the project I got a lot of help from my art teacher Ms. Hall. After I drew the designs of the shirts on paper, I used a box cutter to cut out the outline of what I had drew so it can look like the way I wanted it on the shirts. After I drew the design on paper, I traced it on shelfing paper and cut out the the design that I wanted to show on the shirt. After this process, I used a paint brush, dipped it in fabric paint and slightly tapped the paint on the out line of my design, while it was on the shirt. 

These shirts that I have made and the ones I am going to make mean a lot to me because it was an idea that I had, a design that I made and it had a theme that I was proud of and I followed it and made the art. I am happy to see the reactions on peoples faces when they see the shirts and I am happy to see people wear the shirts. I hope this idea gets bigger and greater. More designs, art work and t-shirts and coming soon.