Updated: _ October 15, 2009 ______________________________________________
STATEMENT:
............................"There are moments in life that can change us. I believe this; I also believe that it’s far too easy to miss these times in everyday life. My goal is find these points in time, which can be as simple as a glimmer of light, and to capture them. For now, I think that expressing the power of such a moment is my greatest aspiration".
BACKGROUND:
............................For as long as I can remember, I have reveled in trying to make some unique and positive impact on the world around me.
Over the years in Knoxville's best and brightest public schools for K-12, I could almost always be found trying to brighten someone's day, getting slightly too excited about the latest homework project, or drawing on my desk.
It was in the 6th grade that I got my first taste of national recognition in art: in the Crayola Dream Makers competition. But it was not until my second year in high school that I could truly begin to pursue the arts. It was that year that I was accepted to Tennessee's Governor's School for the Arts. I returned from GSFTA fully charged and ready to attack painting and drawing–a feeling that was spurred even more when I was accepted to the prestigious Summer Seminar of the Marie Walshe Sharpe program following my junior year.
I loved excuses to make more art, and I would jump on the chance to enter each competition that passed my way. This habit helped me to stack up a generous track record in the art competition circuit (most of which is hopefully represented in appropriate resume's).
Before leaving high school, I had already splashed into every distraction that spiked my fancy- like web design. This was a trend that hardly died at in college, where I found myself in everything from the theatre to the newspaper staff. The bio stops there for now, but a good summary would be to say that I have always fostered an appetite for a full plate, and I enjoy a varied diet... an idiom that has never been more true than since I began my relentless love affair with the art of glassblowing, and my gentle mistress, computer science.
to be continued...
