"The sculpture department was over in some agronomy building in the basement or something because they had a very old building and, there just wasn’t room for all the classes. Now they have a huge new building. I went to interview someone that we were interviewing as a Dean who was in their Art History department, and their Art department now is in a huge building, it has like 12 floors or something and three floors are devoted just to computers. So it is a very different department now than it was then, but when I was there it was very intimate and you could work there all the time, all day, on the weekends if you wanted to. They had visiting artists. I remember David Smith came one time and spoke to us, and talked to us in our studios and I remember I was complaining to him about something, I can’t remember. I didn’t have enough of something, I was complaining because the school didn’t provide it and he just said, “Well, go get it!” And I said, “Oh yeah.” It just never dawned on me, “Oh yeah! I’m in charge of what I’m doing! If I need something, just go get it!”"
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Connie Zehr
Connie Zehr (January 17, 1938 – April 4, 2025) was an American installation artist whose work involved sand, clay, glass, and sculpture. Zehr was a key artist in the Los Angeles Light and Space Movement and was most notable for her mounded sand installations. One of Zehr's sand installations was exhibited at the 1975 Whitney Biennial. An extensive collection of Zehr's work is included in the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian.
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