What does it mean to be unconventional? The definition means to simply not conform to what is generally done or believed. In design nearly every student and young design professional attempts to…
Students that Rock
I’m not an easy teacher. I push, and I push hard. If you have visited my website before or have seen me present at conferences you may have read up on my…
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…
Revelry
rev·el·ry | \ ˈre-vəl-rē \ reveling; boisterous festivity; noisy partying or merrymaking For the past three years the School of Performing and Visual Arts at the University of Southern Mississippi has held one large “boisterous festivity” filled…
New Series: Highs, Lows and Everything In Between.
Emotional expression can be at times difficult to express verbally and at times even more so visually. Most of my work encompasses highly charged emotions as its subject matter but in the…
Leadership: Part 4 – Community
“There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.” – Margaret J. Wheatley So far in this series I’ve covered many issues that I feel educators…