This is about my Lincoln Project Part of the Lincoln Legacies Artist Residency VIDEO BY STORYTELLERS https://thestorytellerstudios.com/ Press Release University of Illinois Springfield presents “Making Our History: Artists Render Lincoln’s Legacies,” An innovative physical and digital art exhibit “Making Our History: Artists Render Lincoln’s Legacies,” an innovative physical and digital…
All photos by Robert Chase Heishman ARTIST INTERVIEW NATHAN PECK: DREAM MACHINE As a teacher and a practicing artist, I think a lot about the feedback loop between teaching and creating. I asked Nathan Peck how teaching fits into his art practice. ___________________ I’ve taught full time at SXU…
Relics from “The Dream Machine” Sabbatical work by Nathan Peck After nearly twenty years at Saint Xavier University, I finally took a semester off for professional development and creative production. My sabbatical was scheduled for last spring. I guess it was lucky that everything was closed. I am easily distracted…
Keeping this wall interesting is an ongoing task. My students and I are routinely considering what should be the next moving image for the university to consider. Sometimes it is abstract – other times it is literal or instructional or in the public service. The most recent offering is one…
There is no higher impact practice for artists than to stand before your work in a public space and engage your audience. I work with students in all of my classes to prepare their work for exhibits. While many institutions reserve this for the final semester, I firmly believe that this…
We were invited BACK to the Beverly Art Center – This time we took over both floors. More Height became the fitting title as we sought to extend our reach. These are a few photos from this year’s exhibit. I collaborated with 20 students and alumni to create this exhibit….
This video was shot and edited by Abel Juarez and Heather Kaminsky, students at SXU. This event was October 7, 2017. The event featured students from many of my classes.
My new freshmen recruits exhibited their portfolios and hung a few of their works in our student gallery.
This show was a response to a video that I shot. I had emptied my garage of all the paintings that I had stored into my driveway. I recorded the hundreds of pictures with my phone. I uploaded it for my sister to see and titled it Time for a Show….
For this exhibition that asked artists to consider re-invisioning education. I decided to create project in which I had students from four different grade levels draw the same teapot. The students were from a school that has no art program. so I would get student for one morning and teach…