Major: Art History; Minors: French Studies and Museum, Field, & Community Education 

Contributor Biography: Elizabeth Fitzpatrick is an art history major from Catonsville, MD. In the future she hopes to work in a museum to share her love of art with others. In her free time, she enjoys reading, making art, and watching really bad movies.

The following was created for ART 194 : Collage 

How do you Spell That? (TONGUE TWISTER) 

Brief Description: For this assignment collage students were instructed to create something inspired by a classmate’s work; Fitzpatrick took inspiration from several classmates who used radial symmetry in their collages. Fitzpatrick used word puzzles found in a newspaper and parts of a cipher wheel used to encipher or decipher messages. The cipher wheel is attached in a way that still allows it to spin; while it remains symmetrical, it is not static, playing with the multiple meanings that can be created through letters and words. The artist wants viewers to ask themselves: what do the highlighted letters on the cipher wheel mean?