Painting class at A&M

This semester is proving to be an interesting venture into our learning as artists. And I must say this is the first semester I have ever had where I have been given artistic freedom.

So many times you spend time trying to please the teacher or to figure out what will meet the course requirements or assignments that you lose your freedom and ability to think for yourself. This semester we have been set free to think and create. It's freeing and frightening at the same time for me. There is some comfort in having an assignment spelled out for you and all you have to do is get it done. But you do trade off you creativity freedom to some degree for that comfort.

Mr Miller's class this semester has been given the freedom to find a passion and venture out into it. It's big and bold and we will learn how to build and stretch our own canvases and then through a serious of pictures we will build an art show. We each will know at the end of this semester how to write an artist statement, get the invitations to the show done, framing, matting, and press releases. What we have here is a real world application to our art.

I would love for everyone to keep an eye out for up coming shows by the students around campus. Each one of us will have to find a place for our show and get it up.