Artist. Photographer. Professor.
Paige Young
I am an educator who is passionate about the growth of students. My philosophy in the classroom is to create a community that is approachable to all learning styles and communication skill-sets. I have worked with mixed media, video, digital and tangible interactive media, film and digital photography, sculpture, rock sculpting, and experimental processing.
I find it very important to be hands on with teaching in art disciplines, since most visual students learn the best with watching and applying directly after a demonstration. In all my courses I try to apply theory, visual imagery and relate it to current events happening within our society. This allows students to really engage with the material, whether or not they are majoring within the course I am instructing.
My business minor and Advertising bachelors degree really allows me to expand my perspective to my students and demonstrate how they can apply information I am teaching to the life outside of college. I have helped students build websites, online portfolios, begin writing contracts for clientele usage, learn how to report income and expenses, and guide them about pricing for their art work when they begin to branch out as an entrepreneur.
Because of my Advertising bachelors and my MA in Visual Studies, I love to explore the idea of the power of images, within pop culture, politics, and advertising, to all of my students. This empowers students to think about their own work and the messages they can send, as well as allows them to reflect on the intention of the images they are creating. The technical aspect of how to create art is important, but so is the message of that art, but to encourage students to see their value within a society that is very saturated with these subliminal messages is crucial to create members of society that know how to critically think about not only their work, but the images around them.
“Hold onto every photograph. Even if at first it bothers you, relook at it in a month or a year and most likely your mind will think about it differently.”
Paige Young 