 I was born two weeks late. I grew up on my maternal grandfather's farmland outside of a small town in Northcentral Pennsylvania. I spent my entire life there, disconnected from urban-living, surrounded by family.
Daily life involved antagonizing cows with my older brother, building snow forts, and swimming in my grandfather's figure-eight pool. My earliest connections to art were drawing pads and colored pencils my parents bought for me. My father is a carpenter, which gave me an early sense of clean design and rugged construction. 4 of the 5 wooden pieces of furniture in our living room were built by my father's hands. My mother is a quilt maker, which started me off loving design and pattern. I've slept under her quilts my entire life.
My schooling seemed to go swiftly, as I fell under the radar for a majority of my high school career at parochial school. I was always interested in art, but I was only interested in making art my career when I reached Lycoming College, where I earned a Bachelors of Art in Studio Art (focused in printmaking and ceramics) with a certification in education. Printmaking struck my fancy because of its identity as an extremely hands-on form of graphic design. I found an outlet through printmaking that was a perfect mesh of graphic design, and physical labor. I am excited by the ability to work quickly after ground rules have been laid. It is also at Lycoming College where I heard the most beautiful sound of my life: the quiet click of a shutter. I started collecting cameras and taking pictures whenever and wherever it was inappropriate to do so.
At risk of being bored, I migrated directly from my undergraduate studies, to a wedding, to grad school at the University of Georgia where I am currently an MFA candidate in my second year. I have quickly realized that the choice of the University of Georgia for my education was a great one, as I feel I am now creating the strongest work of my life.
Email: tfoley@uga.edu
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Carlos Torres Cazares is a Chicano Printmaker. He is 24 years old, born in Visalia, California and raised in the small town of Ivanhoe, California located in the central valley. He is the first in his family to graduate from high school and pursue higher education. In the spring of 2003, Carlos enrolled at the College of the Sequoias community college in Visalia, California. During his time there, he earned a well-rounded education in printmaking. Served as the Printworks Club President which helped raise scholarships for printmaking students and went on to become the shop technician and lab monitor for Lithography course at the College of the Sequoias Printmaking Shop. Carlos transferred to the Kansas City Art Institute printmaking department in the fall of 2007. Currently, he is a senior at the Kansas City Art Institute and will be graduating with a BFA in Printmaking in the spring of 2009.