Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
[music]
I came to OU, looking at the school...
and looking at the history of the school itself.
The possibilities, the kind of people that were here,
the motivation to really instruct and examine art from a contemporary point of view.
I saw a lot of potential, a lot of good students who were here...
when I toured the facilities and got to meet students during my interview process.
My work focuses on mostly public sculpture, large scale to medium scale.
Public work, intricately welded sculpture that deals with sort of the synthesis of...
industrial structures, organic structures, emergence structures,
that sort of form abstract organic shapes that sort of relate them to the environments we find ourselves in,
and the environments that have been discovered over the past 10 or 15 years.
With students who are looking at art programs,
I think you want a lot of diversity
We have a lot of international students in our program
We have a lot of students who come from different parts of the country,
we really engage students in terms of the faculty,
from a number of different of ideologies.
We definitely foster an attitude of looking at sort of art as a problem solving entity,
and take a variety of different paths to sort of accomplish that.
I think that's something that our diversity is a really strong component of the program,
And students, you know, always are looking for facilities,
they're always looking for sort of just an energetic and exciting place to be.
And I think our Art Program definitely has that.
We take students on trips.
We have a lot of functions that happen here at the School of Art.
And we're always sort of developing new ideas with student impetus,
to sort of figure out sort of different ways that we can get art visible within the University community...
or within the Norman community itself.
[music]