John Early
baking bread, cutting my own hair, and figuring out how to create pastels out of dust and dirt.
I teach foundations courses in the College of Art including Drawing, Two-Dimensional Design, and Three-Dimensional Design. Ever since I made my first sculpture in high school using a few found car parts and some bicycle spokes, I’ve enjoyed developing a studio practice that re-contextualizes and elevates the everyday. I’m originally from Richmond, Virginia, and have lived in St. Louis for over 15 years.
This is one of the mixed media drawings my students made in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Mary Ruppert-Stroescu
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In her current research, Mary Ruppert-Stroescu, PhD, focuses on the study and application of creativity, particularly through the exploration of sustainable fashion design and production and wearable electronic textile-based sensing systems that address issues of health and well-being. Her interdisciplinary collaborations with engineers and medical scientists have resulted in innovations related to conductive thread performance, the integration of sensors into textile embodiments for diverse body types, and user needs for textile-based sensing systems. She holds intellectual property protection for four inventions and has presented her research and creative scholarship at national and international conferences.
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Linnea Ryshke
matching the voice to the face of all the different bird species that live in my neighborhood on my daily 1-hour walks, and creating an artist book about my COVID-19 quarantine experience.
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In my Drawing class, we are in the midst of the section called Drawing as Invention. Students are utilizing non-traditional drawing techniques and taking advantage of materials at hand to create maps of their COVID-19 experience.