The best education an artist can have is working for another artist and witnessing the fortitude it takes to create, sell, and maintain a living as a working artist.
Photographs and stories of the artists who carry on their legacy.
Mid-nineteenth-century Grand Rapids, Michigan offered limited opportunities for education. In an illustration for Harper’s Weekly (Fig. 1), Frederick Stuart Church recalled his early school days in a Grand Rapids one room schoolhouse. Consumed by a desire to draw, young Fred occupied himself drawing with pencil on the blank pages of his school texts and on…
Connections is a departure from my past student concours. We wanted to show how the class work is cohesive and how it interrelates. We are many things, after all, not just sculpture students working in one way. Connections offers a whole new way to see the sculptures. It is a single piece of art: a…