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Is art a solo flight or can the artist, as co-pilot, work with a crew of navigators, Rewards, stewardesses, mechanics and attjendents on a flight in creativity?
That’s the question that Vic Pickett, head of the art department at Old Dominion University and sculpture of note, is trying to answer at SPECTRA Sthool of Design. Pickett is a visiting instructor at the Flint Hill school’s summer program, assisting with last week’s session and a second session set for August 7-12.
“This is an experiment. It’s a creative situation for me as well as for the students. I can use the yellowed pages of notes I’ve had for 20 years,” Pickett explained. “I have to make it up on the spot.”
At Norfolk’s ODU, the sculptor works in a more conventional setting, following a curriculum that he developed. “But as a preliminary to this, I teamtaught three classes—two dimensional design, three dimensional design and color—with a colleague. I was concerned over how I would be able to contribute at SPECTRA. I asked Don (Donald Chandler, the Northern Virginia architect who founded and directs the school) if I should bring my band saw anl my welding equipment. Don said no, that we’d do with w’hat’s on the site. This kind of approach allows you to get immediately involved in the environment.”
In creating sculpture, SPECTRA students work primarily with wood, stone and dirt. “So what you’re involved in is an attitude about creativity and making things without the pressures of an external system. But if fall the students get here and decide it’s necessary to have plaster in order to create what they want to create, we would go out and get plaster,” Pickette said. “But it would be a decision made
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