I’ve been crazy busy with design projects, bills, and school…it’s almost like…real life. ‘Course in a year or two life is going to be very different when I’m chillin on the beach making artwork, and getting paid and getting debt free from school. Ahhhhhh yes, artrockstardom. It’s so real I can taste it. I figure when I sell my first work, all student loans evaporate.
I’m excited about the Javits fellowship this year, but I really need to get my slides together, and write that essay.
Published by Pete Ippel
Pete Ippel, the son of a dancer and a musician, was born in Oak Park, Illinois and has been surrounded by the arts since birth. He moved to Morris, Illinois in 1989 and started to participate in athletics rather than dance. After high school, Pete attended Cornell University where he received a BA in psychology and a BFA in photo / digital art making. He continued to follow his sporting dreams in the high jump, which culminated in a school record leap of 7 feet 1/2 inch in 2001.
In May 2004 he attained an MFA degree in the New Genres department of the San Francisco Art Institute. Presently Pete is a practicing artist whose work is in numerous private collections and has been exhibited in New York, California, and internationally.
Mr. Ippel resides in Working Artists Ventura, a sustainable artist community in southern California. In addition, he teaches art, is a web developer, an active blogger, and still high jumps from time to time.
As a passionate problem solver and a pragmatic optimist, Pete’s art and his life are full of exciting challenges.
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