Artist, Educator, Photographer

When teaching I always leave my political views at home, but I encourage students to discuss their own ideas and political views. I enjoy seeing them interested in the elections and hope every one of them votes in November (but it is no excuse to miss class).

And second, I believe one of the best way to become a better image maker is through looking at other artists work in books, online, and especially in person. Here are some links to photographers web sites that have some wonderful images of the candidates and other politicians.

Tim Llewellyn
Scott Goldsmith
Damon Winter
Callie Shell
Nigel Parry
Christopher Morris
Michele Asselin
Brooks Kraft
Images from The New York Times
Who It Takes by GQ

and if you do a search on Flickr you can find tons more of images of the candidates. Enjoy!

Tomorrow (through November 14th) is the opening to my solo show in Bartlett, 10 am in the second floor main gallery of the village hall. I know, short notice right! Well life has been… life lately. When I’m not teaching or planing classes I have been busy making work, applying to calls, and printing/framing/shipping work for shows (oh, yea and I moved a couple weeks ago). So if you cant make it out to Bartlett, next month (November 15th-January 10th) I have work in Foto-Fest (Juror Whitney Bradshaw) at the Orleans Street Gallery in Saint Charles, November 8th Fraction Magazine will release Issue 4 that features some of my work, and in January I will have a solo show in the Epping Gallery at McHenry County College.
I guess being busy is a good thing, I just wish I had more time to make work. Still thinking about a weekend trip to make work, maybe I’ll have time next week…