These yearly RoCO “Makers & Mentors” shows provide a great opportunity to witness the clusters of art making going on in this area and to experience the guidance a teacher can provide. Mentors, teaching artists like Robert Marx at Brockport, Kurt Feuerherm at Empire State, Judd Williams at the UofR and now Richard Hirsch from RIT all influence students in their own way. Sometimes the influence is literal and sometimes I can’t see it. I like Robin Whiteman’s hand built ceramic pieces in the current show and I like her teacher’s current work, the big abstract clay surfaces.
Someday the mentor will be Fred Lipp (Creative Workshop / RIT) and in the work you will see the depiction of form in two dimensions. A minor miracle.
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