Working on the plan to keep art and track balanced in my life, there’s a new job posting in the media department at UCSD, I would love to be teaching/training down there, and I feel like the experiences I’m having now with the folks at MSAT are really going to work to my advantage.
I’m so very pleased with the progress of my students, and I love asking them questions. It’s so satisfying to have a 9th grader first answer your question with a passive “I don’t know” and then ask a few more questions and come around another way, and deduce the solution.
Very exciting.
Also planning on making another push for the Fulbright to the UAE and Dubai Media City. I have a much better plan this year, and a more developed understanding of my work and how it would promote good feelings and understanding. Sending excerpts of YUK may not have been the best move, as surely it could offend some folks.
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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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