Scott Allred is interested in formal aesthetic relationships. In the drawing process shape is what makes the subject recognizable and value execution makes the subject believable. His work consists primarily of figure studies, portraits, and large biblical narratives in the tradition of historic masterpieces. It is his desire to revisit this imagery in his drawings and paintings.

Courses Taught: Drawing, Painting

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email: scott.allred@snow.edu

Amy Jorgensen’s work began as an inquiry into the practices and aesthetics of historical criminal photography and associated assumptions of the photograph as a document of the moment, or a representation of truth – what Walter Benjamin describes as evidence of an occurrence. Traditional notions of the body in art, the figure as object on view, are set aside to consider the body as an active participant in artistic process. She incorporates performance and photography with a willingness to use her own body as both test subject and subject matter in an investigation of personal and cultural assumptions linked to our artistic and scientific expectations of photographic practice. Jorgensen explores the body as both repository and author of information. The resulting photographs are the striking visual residue of her experience: traces of body fluid, clothing, skin prints, and the fine edges of body hair are evidence of her occurrence. Jorgensen states, “My body is an archive, my skin the surface through which I experience the world.”

Courses Taught: Photography, Design, New Media

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email: amy.jorgensen@snow.edu

Adam Larsen is a passionate artist and teacher of the visual language. His philosophy of art and teaching embraces the idea that art occurs when craft and concept homogenize. He is dedicated to promoting the practice of fundamental visual and dextral skills in a variety of artistic disciplines. His work cannot be categorized completely by one artistic medium but instead exists in varied forms of drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography, and artists’ books. This mixed-media affiliation allows him freedom as an artist to produce work in any combination of material and process, informing and enhancing his particular concept. His current work can be characterized as a visual reflection of his life as he attempts to translate commonplace occurrences into intimate visual dialogs utilizing the visual and tactile container of the artists’ book. The work includes the use of toys and elements of childhood play, metaphorically creating a reciprocal relationship between early memories and adulthood.

Courses Taught: Printmaking, Drawing, Design

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email: adam.larsen@snow.edu

He is a maker of objects. As a sculptor Brad Taggart modifies materials and space to suit the body of work. He is a traditional sculptor in the sense that he places emphasis on the quality of the object even when the nature of the object is driven by conceptual concerns. He believes that a high-minded idea, in the absence of a finely crafted object, is philosophy mixed with theatre. He considers himself a contemporary sculptor and subscribes to the notion that he can work in any tradition, material, technology, or style that suits him. He is a figure sculptor, but also an installation artist. He embraces realism, yet is equally at home with abstraction. He uses age-old processes to create his work, but is willing to accept new technologies that allow him to be more efficient. He relishes the freedom to say what he needs to say when he needs to say it using whatever means necessary to get his message across. In the end Taggart’s message will always take a material form because he believes that as a sculptor he is a maker of objects.

Courses Taught: Sculpture, 3D Design, Ceramics

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email: brad.taggart@snow.edu

William is a traditional functional production potter, art historian and art educator. His interest in ceramics has always centered on the clay’s instant spontaneity and plasticity. For over 35 years he has placed an emphasis on the mastery of the potter’s wheel and the diverse three dimensional forms created with this fascinating tool. The basis for William’s work comes from historical Asian traditions, techniques and applications which were fostered in American Universities during the 20th Century.

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Dustin Hansen, BFA, Illustration, Southern Utah University
Instructor, Animator/Game Designer, EA Sports

Dustin Hansen has worked in the video game and toy industries for seventeen years, where he has been involved exclusively with products within the teenage demographic. His work as an illustrator, art director, and writer has shipped in over 20 million video games to date, including many award winners and household name titles like Madden, The Sims, and MySims. He also ran his own outsourcing group where he worked on blockbuster titles like SOCOM, Navy Seals, Syphon Filter, and Bioshock. Recently, Hansen has been working as a story consultant to Hasbro Inc. for their two most dominate brands for boys and girls respectively, Littlest Pet Shop and Nerf, for products to be aired on their newly announced television network. He is currently Creative Director at Electronic Arts.

Teaching Assignment: Digital Media Fundamentals, Drawing I, Animation I, Digital Painting

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Carl Purcell has taught painting and drawing at Snow College for 30 years. He conducts 'Summer Snow', a watercolor workshop now in its 33rd year. It is the most poputar workshop iof its kind in the state, with participants coming from all over the country. The past year participants came form Hawaii, British Columbia and Australia.

Carl is the author of North Light publications, Painting With Your Artist's Brain (a watercolor book) and Drawing with Your Artist's Brain. In addition his art has been featured in five articles published in The Artist's Magazine and in Splash I. He has juried exhibits in Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Michigan and California. He has won numberous awards, the most recent being a purchase award in the last National Watercolor Societies Annual Exhibit and Best of Show in Utah Watercolor Society Annual.

Carl's workshop's are in high demand, teaching watercolor and drawing workshops all around the country in Canada and Great Britian.

In 2009 Carl was been chosen as one of the panel of judges for the National Watercolor Society Annual Open. They will be selecting a show from about 1,000 entries being submitted by artists from around the world.

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email: studio@carlpurcell.com

website: www.carlpurcell.com

 

Ron Richmond’s work employs symbolism both in subject matter and in form.  His paintings explore the relationship of opposites:  light and darkness, the living and the decaying, order and chaos, sin and redemption, the ethereal and the concrete.

Richmond has exhibited his paintings in galleries and museums in major cities throughout the United States such as New York, Washington D.C., Atlanta, and San Francisco; and in London.  His work is collected by museums; corporations such as Saks Fifth Avenue, Continental Airlines, Credit Suisse and Omni Hotels; as well as by many private individuals.

He was awarded second place in the still life category in the 2006 Art Renewal Center Salon, a prestigious international online exhibition.  He is looking forward to a solo exhibition at the Miclheson Museum of Art in Marshall, Texas in the winter of 2010.

Richmond received M.F.A. and B.F.A. degrees from Brigham Young University.
He has worked as a professional artist for 17 years.  He was born in Denver, Colorado and currently lives in Mt. Pleasant, Utah.

Eduction:
BFA:  1987, BYU
MFA:  1992, BYU

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John Stevens was born in California, and grew up in Santa Barbara. Both his parents were involved in art and design and helped develop John’s artistic talents. He attended Santa Barbara City College and Brigham Young University for his Bachelors education in Graphic and Exhibit Design. After college he worked for a number of design and illustration studios in California and Utah. In 1982 he started his own graphic design and photography studio where he continues to create award winning design for a wide variety of local, regional and Fortune 500 clients. John has taught national photography workshops and has authored media-industry articles for the design and photography trades. He also ventures into the fine arts with large minimalist abstract paintings. His photography and paintings have been represented in a wide assortment of galleries throughout the West. John is a partner in a commercial art gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona, he Founded and wasthe Executive Director for the Spring City Arts organization, and he has served on community arts organizations and museum boards.

email: john.stevens@snow.edu

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Biography

Biography

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