Creativity and Design, Speaker, Professor, and Author of
The Art of Scenic Design: A Practical Guide to the Creative ProcessI am a Teaching Professor in the area of Scenic Design for the Performing Arts Department at Washington University in St. Louis and former director/founder of the
Beyond Boundaries Program, an interdisciplinary program at WashU that allows students an opportunity in their 1st Year to enter WashU unaffiliated with an undergrad division. Students get one year to decide on their undergraduate division and collaborate with other students as unique intellectual explorers who desire to collaborate across disciplines and interact with multiple schools and departments. The program re-frames and changes "what do you want to BE when you grow up?" to "what
problems do you want to
solve?" and equips students to make a difference in a complicated world where challenges do not come pre-packaged as the territory of a single discipline.