In the vast digital landscape that has become so important to our modern society, a website serves as both a digital billboard and storefront for any individual or business. It’s where first…
Studio Work
Always on the Outside of the Dream
Ever have a dream that you could only admire from a distance? That no matter how hard you tried or how hard you worked, always seemed out of reach? That lived outside…
2022 in Review Part 2 – Teaching and Service
At a research-based institution teaching and service are traditionally seen as lower priority to research and other scholarly/creative activities. If you take a dive through my blog you’ll see plenty of posts…
2022 in Review Part 1 – Leadership and Research
A common branding exercise is to take a product or service and condense it into a few words. This helps us to determine our “idea” of it or its “brand” so to…
Fall Semester: Creative Research Update
I always enjoy the fall. The weather is fantastic. The temperature is perfect for grilling and a fire pit. It is perfect hiking weather. It is also the first time back in…
Updates.
Well… it has been a while since I’ve posted on here. No worries, I’m not dead, but worse, I’m being productive. So many major things happening in the studio and in the…
Summer
I had a colleague who used to say that the two best things about teaching were Summer and Christmas. I just wrapped up my 10th year in the profession and I’ve learned that…
Times they are a changin’
The pandemic did for most of us what had been needing to be done for quite some time. It shuffled our lives by shaking the snow globes that imprisoned us. It brought…
New Exhibition Acceptance
Teaching during COVID has been tough. There are the obvious technology and remote education issues but on top of that professors are still expected to perform their research. The research requirements of…
Presidential
In academia there are ranks or positions for just about everything. There are major divisions of faculty and staff, and each division comes with a million different subdivisions and many different ranks…