作为艺术的混凝土
I turn boring grey concrete into custom works of art. I hand draw, hand cut and hand stain all of my floors, no stencils or templates. I travel the country teaching other contractors, doing demonstrations and working on beautiful homes. Since everything is done by hand, each project becomes very custom to the client or location.
为什么是联合山
I looked at a few great colleges before I chose Mount Union. 我有几个祖先也上过Mount. I remember when we were touring the college they talked about this new “Lattice Network” that was being installed so that we could research and do homework through this expensive “wired network” the school was installing. It took a few years for them to get it running then we watched those first steps turn into the famous “internet.“不管怎样，这对我来说都是一大卖点.
小社区
There is something about the “feel” of Mount Union that attracted me. 在那里感觉很舒服. 我喜欢那种小社区的感觉. 我来自隔壁的一个小镇. I didn’t move from a huge metropolis to a small town or vice versa. 它的大小正适合我.
最喜欢的教授
我有两个最爱. Joel Collins because he always believed I could be an artist and pushed me to never stop working hard at what I wanted to create and Dr. William Davis for talking me into majoring in philosophy. I learned so much that has truly helped me on so many levels since then. Both of them gave me the confidence to pursue my graduate degree.
第一份工作
我是一个专业的交际舞演员. It led me on a great path of connections through Savannah, 乔治亚州, 这是我做梦也想不到的. I ended up teaching dance in the Media and Performing 艺术 department at Savannah College of Art and Design for a year before moving to Nashville, 田纳西州.
参与校园活动
我加入了兄弟会Alpha Tau Omega (ATO), was on the campus Recycling Team and was the wrestling team manager for a while.
继续教育
I earned a Masters of Fine Art in Painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, 乔治亚州.
素质教育
I think the most important part of my Mount education was the well-rounded education it gave me. I didn’t just take a basic math class or a basic philosophy class. I was able to take calculus for fun and learned how to write better than I could ever have imagined, 直到今天，这一切都对我有帮助. 我的研究生院在一所艺术学院. I look at its undergraduate program and felt it didn’t have as good of a well-rounded curriculum for students to dig into learning and building a stronger future as Mount offers.
保持联系
Thanks to Facebook I still keep in touch with friends from Mount Union! I had a meeting with Sherwin Williams in Cleveland, Ohio, a couple years ago. I posted that I would like to get together with old friends and we all had a great time while I was in town. 我爱上了互联网!
I also keep in touch with one very close friend from my days at Mount Union – my wife Nichole (Huebner) Lobdell. We stayed in touch for five years after we met before I finally asked her out, 我们相识七年后，我向她求婚了, eight years after we met we got married at Mount Union.
人生目标
Like any other artist dreams, I want to be famous for my artwork.
教育的重要性
I come across a lot of people that call themselves an artist. Many of them have no formal education and have no clue how little they know about what art is. The mix of fine art and philosophy has helped me understand how far an artist can go to create and the confidence to back up everything I do. Some people think a great education comes from just hard work. I disagree, we need higher education in order to understand how to focus all that hard work.
对工作的热情
我热爱我的工作. I found a niche that most artists don’t even know exists. I could be just another artist trying to sell artwork out of a gallery. Instead I travel the country and show people all the amazing things you can do with the surface of concrete.