“Know Time” |
About Ben Mefford: I consider myself an emerging artist. I have apprenticed or assisted three sculptors over seven years on video projects, site-specific mixed media installations, gallery stone sculptures, and large-scale granite sculptures for public commissions. I have a bachelor’s degree in studio art and a master’s degree in interdisciplinary studies (research writing). I created my first large sculpture in October of 2016. I became a father in 2015, and it has been chaos ever since, and yet I finally feel like an adult. I am pushing hard to make art the central focus of my life. I am also interested in arts administration and have a dream of inventing a new kind of art museum by the time I am forty. I believe in what we do as artists, that there is an inherent value to it. I spent too much of my youth sitting around, directionless, waiting for something exciting to happen on its own. I am tired of thinking things are impossible just because I don’t know how to accomplish them, and I am not afraid of failure anymore.
Learn more about Ben Mefford: Artist Spotlight July-August 2017 Sculpture NorthWest
Benjamin Mefford
www.benjaminmefford.com