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| directory of teaching artists: Benjamin Love |
| Benjamin Love was born and grew up in Idaho. After 3 years of working as a street performer, living out of a backpack, and traveling around the U.S. he decided to formalize his education, Benjamin is currently studying sculpture and printmaking at Boise State University.
His work employs a variety of materials and processes, ranging from cast forms to street performance. Central to his investigation as an artist is the relationship between humans, objects, and places. Love has an interest in site-specific public work and collaboration. His work is exhibited and collected regionally, nationally, and internationally. Describe a transformative process that has occurred in your own practice as an artist or in a past residency as a teaching artist. The most transformative process in my work as an artist is sharing my work. There is magic when your work is seen by people who are interested in having an “art experience.” The magic is not limited to the artist but the audience as well. Much like Tango, art takes two. When have you been able to recognize learning taking place? The recognition of learning taking place in students is usually through increased interest and questions about the project/ process from the students. When students feel excited about what we are doing they want to communicate that excitement, I find that allowing and encouraging this excitement to grow as dialogue between students is key to developing the inquiry as a class. What excites your imagination and in turn how does your work excite imagination for your audience? Materials, and ideas excite my imagination. Finding a piece of weathered wood, or a brilliant poem not only informs the work that I make but the process I work in as well. I am especially excited when I receive letters or artwork from friends, and when I am asked about my work. My work excites imagination in my audience, in that it challenges pre-conceived notions of how art can function and what art can be. The challenging of ideas excites people into seeing things in new ways, which is invigorating for everyone. What characteristics mark a successful collaboration for you? A successful collaboration for me is marked by increased interest from students. To be inspired by a project enough to start their own inquiring into a process or idea is characteristic of a successful collaboration. How do you foster creativity, both in your own work and as a teaching artist? In my work as both an artist and a teaching artist I foster creativity mainly by trusting the process. If I get stuck or need to get new ideas I juggle, read, dance, draw, or play guitar. In these moments of unfocused creativity I tend to find not only the inspiration I needed to continue what I was stuck on, but I also find clarity into what the hold-up was. Three key understandings of this discipline are:
Outcomes of the three understandings are:
List three Idaho Humanities Content Standards that
correlate with each of the key understandings you have identified above.
Contemporary Sculpture Content Dialogue Patina Gesture Implicit Scale Spatial Orientation Unifier Marquette References
(208) 426-1249 ffox@boisestate.edu Jill Fitterer (208) 426-1060 jillfitterer@boisestate.edu Rebecca Harris (208) 377-0011 rebhar@gmail.com |
 Discipline: Visual Art , Sculpture, Printmaking, Drawing, Performance Art, Video, Sound. Phone:(208) 433-9717 Email: b.morganlove@gmail.com Website: Coming soon. Special Populations I work with: All ages and abilities. ICA Artists by Disciplines Music Ken Harris Dance Wendy de la Harpe Joy Esplin LiAnne Hunt Norma Pintar Rachel Swenson Theater/Storytelling Joy Steiner Teresa Clark Language Arts Malia Collins Judy Sobeloff Visual Arts Deana Attebery Tom Bennick Judith Brand Sue Rooke Lizette Fife Helen Grainger Wilson Terrie Kralik Jeanne Leffingwell Benjamin Love Linda Wolfe Video/Media Arts Peppershock Media |
 Phone: 208/334-2119 or 800/278-3863 Fax: 208/334-2488 Mailing address: P.O. Box 83720, Boise, ID 83720-0008 Street address: 2410 North Old Penitentiary Rd., Boise, ID 83712 |