Recycled Collage
This piece was inspired by 90's nostalgia and was created using recycled doll packaging. I used items that are normally discarded as trash to create this piece. I wanted to keep a simple color pallet while working with shapes and patterns. This piece is one of a kind.
Sculpture & Crafts
12 x 17
Artist Statement
Emily Orton is a passionate art and art history student. Her works focus on what she calls "re-creation arts" artforms that are typically done by machines in our modern age. She creates prints in the printmaking lab, hand sewn binding in the publications center, and creative silversmithing in the silversmithing lab. Her favorite subjects are snails and mushrooms for prints, "saddleback" or multiple openings books for bookbinding, and mixed metals / media in silversmithing.
Emily hopes to get her bachelor's degree in Art History form UNLV.
SLCC Enrollment School
SLCC Student
