Claire Hoch

This week, we were visited by Claire Hoch from the VCCA. She had just recently graduated from Carnegie Mellon. I thought she was pretty interesting in that her art depended on people. She chose to work on projects in which she could involve the community and fellow artists to accomplish the same goal. I'm always so caught up in thinking that art making is a solitary act, that it's all about the artist's expressions and impressions that I forgot that without an audience, there would be no artist. And collaboration doesn't necessarily have to relate to other artists. Collaboration can revolve around the community and involve the people you work around. Collaboration is community outreach in its simplest and most natural form.

And I think that's a great idea.

My own career goals is to work with community outreach and to bring art back to the public. It's nice to know that it is possible and it is viable.