On this episode we hang with artist, sculptor and the President of the Art Academy of Cincinnati, Joe Girandola. We meet at the Flag Studio in Camp Washington. Flag Studio is where he creates his beautiful duct tape artworks as well as his milk crate sculptures. We talk about the way that he has progressed from art student all the way to an art school's president. He has exhibited his work in venues like the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Kunsthalle Wien in Austria, Kwangju Biennial in South Korea, and the Center for Contemporary Art Biennial in Atlanta. He received several grants, including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Grant. Girandola has held fellowships at MacDowell, Bemis Center, Santa Fe Art Institute, DUCTAC Art Center, and Caldera Artist Residency. His work is in national and international collections, and he won the West Prize in 2012. Formerly, he directed the MFA Program at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, and was Assistant Director at the Santa Fe Art Institute. He holds an MFA from the University of Georgia (1996) and a B.A. from Pepperdine University (1992).
