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…
Video Wall @ SXU
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…
Message from Art – Recruiting Video
My favorite images of the VAC compiled while it was locked down. I was tasked with creating a recruiting video for our department while we were locked out of our studio and all of the students were at home. I dug through my hard drive for footage and compiled this…
BALL – Guitar
This instrument was created through the processes of experimentation and failure. I was attempting to create a sample wooden sphere for my 3D students to study. A miscalculation left me with a half constructed 3/4 sphere. Decorative holes designed into the perimeter happened to perfectly fit a section of broomstick…
ROOTS AND TIPS
Shovels and paintings and ipads
2016 SummerPaintings
I painted all summer long – these are some of the best of the summer. Created with flickr embed.
2016 Audio Sculptures
I got a Laser Cutter for SXU.
Album – FOUND – Rook5 – 2016
Time and Place 2: Painting Retrospective
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….
DOCUMENTARY CLASS – 2015
These videos are the product of an incredible experiment. The Art Department and the History Department merged for a semester to communicate the heritage of the fundraises of our university. These are student compositions. The subject was researched, shot, and edited by the students in the class. All students were…