Taking Part in a Furniture Crit
My former student, Victoria Humphrey, invited me to join her final Furniture Design Degree Project critique on Zoom on 5/21/20. It was an amazing experience!
It was sort of surreal also because there I was, in my home studio, "seeing" and "spending time with" my RISD professors from 18 years ago, and my former high school art student from fours years ago.
Seeing both faculty John Dunnigan and Lothar Windels was incredible and surreal! I felt awash in nostalgia and memory as I listened in on the critique. It made me miss my RISD days, and the immeasurable value of crit time, when you are steeped for hours on end in the creative minds, perceptions and astute insights of the amazing learning community of professors, artists, colleagues and creators.
Of course, the experience also made visual the "wheel" of teaching and learning; here I was on a Zoom call with John and Lothar, who taught me, and then later I taught Victoria as a high school student--who I now see graduating with a degree from RISD! I felt so proud in so many ways. It was also so uplifting to see how all of the students persevered despite the challenges of being displaced and sent home in their final semester.
