Jim Crow:
Jim Crow is an artist and teacher who with his wife and two sons, has
made Central Missouri his home for the last 27 years. He holds a MFA in
Printmaking and Drawing from the University of Missouri at Columbia and
a BS in Art Education from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville.
Crow is an Associate Professor and department head at East Central College
in Union, Missouri.
"Teaching five studio classes per semester doesn't leave much time
for making art, but I try to squeeze in as much as possible. Teaching,
however, is very rewarding to me--sometimes I'm amazed they pay me to
do it. The artistic environment is contagious."
"I think a person makes art because they need to--it's in their blood.
At times, something that I might see strikes a cord in me. It might be
the colors or the movement or the basic division of space, but I feel
compelled to take what's in front of me and manipulate it into a personal
statement...a statement that as one of my art heroes, Wayne Thiebaud has
said, won't embarrass me when it gets hung on a wall."
Josh Crow:
A Missouri local, Josh has had a life long acquaintance with drawing
painting and various aspects of art. He attended two summer programs at
the Kansas City Art Institute while in high school. His BFA in Illustration
was acquired from one of the oldest and most highly renowned art schools
in the nation, the Rhode Island School of Design. This Fall he will be
attending the Henry Hope School of Fine Arts at Indiana University in
Bloomington to pursue a Master of Fine Arts in Painting.
The subject matter of his paintings at the moment deal with aspects of
the urban landscape. These could involve anything from the actual environment
to the products and objects we find and use within it.
"For me, painting is about the act. Although dangerously similar,
the act of painting is much different than making a painting. When someone
sets out to make a painting, they are thinking about what they will have
when they are done. The person will dream or dread the things that might
be said about it by viewers. Painting as an act is a visual search that
is a learning experience in hand, eye, and color blob coordination. The
product of this act can often be a beautiful deception of light and space
with natural overtones of human touch and feeling. Once the hopes and
fears are dropped, the learning can begin."
Jim & Josh Crow
(573) 943-6928
Jim's E-mail:
jjcrow@osagecon.missouri.org
Josh's E-mail:
crowmozone@hotmail.com
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