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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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Hello Pete Ippel.
I hear you graduated from Cornell’s BFA program in 2002. Is this true? I, too, am a graduate of the department of Art, with concentrations in Printmaking and Sculpture (with Bertoia, of course). However, I am a very recent graduate, circa May 2006. I am trying to fight my way out of the LA smog and catch a whiff of the Bay area’s cleaner air – but am struggling to find a place to “start” – I’ve taken up a few part time positions teaching art to children, but that will only last me so long…
Please, at your convenience email me at
ac356@cornell.edu or audchung@gmail.com,
I am utterly passionate about printing and want to stay “in the know” about the latest happenings in the printworld as well as step my foot into the many doorways of great galleries. I aspire to own my own [gallery] one day. Thanks for your time and inspiring in me a little hope for the future.
Sincerely,
Audrey Chung Cornell c/o ’06
I believe in teaching kids art but the elephant in the closet may be the most creative unspoken tool. Read “The Stranger” by a Sociologist named Simmel or his other theoretical excerpts from “The Secret” or “The Prostitute”. These have nothing to do with children but the psycho=social awareness of children have been overlooked without any recognition. We have taken them for granted far to often.
OK this is a personal experience.
Did you ever get a call saying that: I know who you are and what you did…Then they hang up. Imagine this! I am from Binghamton NY (well traveled in Ithaca over 40+ years and have been at Cornell IRL School (for ADA training and other courses ) and am also a graduate of SUNY Potsdam who has a creative imagination.
The same scenario but you get a phone call in the middle of the night. You get out of bed with a much younger woman (wife, GF,BF , visa-versa or other?) and look out of your shades on the window (eg: hotel room suggestive, a home is comparable), a triangulated grid of a city section appears then… you see the Verizon network there all looking at each other raising there hands in dumb array or pointing their fingers at each other as the person on the phone looks in surprise out of their bedroom window at the 1,000 Verizon people looking in.
Homeland Security is nothing like Brinks, Roadrunner or Help I’ve Fallen and Who Will Bail Me Out?
Where will our future lead us? Are our Civil Liberties at risk by modern technology more so than we have enjoyed them in the past?
Dave