Feb 20, 2017 | Essay, From the Chair
Art School curriculum, unlike (or perhaps similar to) the curriculum of other disciplines, necessarily needs to constantly regenerate so as to avoid ossification. As artists invent new ways of communicating ideas and new techniques for doing so, institutions charged...
Feb 13, 2017 | Essay, From the Chair
For JR on his 16th birthday- We don’t get to choose what moves us or when we might be moved. I have often found myself drawn to works of art that, intellectually, I have no interest in or even that I find antithetical to my own esthetic. I have found that work...
Feb 10, 2017 | Comics, Courses
Lynda Barry’s survey of the the equipment, machinery, and tech in her Comics classroom needs to be shared. Um… for my room…. A projector I borrowed from the Image Lab at WID that have to return to them someday. An old paper-cutter that came with the room. A...