Grab your passport and come on a Teaching in the Arts trip around the world! How’s that for a grabber? Eric Williams is the Director of the MFA Program in Communication Arts at Ohio University. He’s also made a career
On the Podcast! John Otterbacher: Teacher, Filmmaker, Curious Guy!

John Otterbacher joins me on the Teaching in the Arts podcast as we discuss the journey from adjunct faculty member to full-time faculty member. Plus, talk about John’s films Riff Raff and Moving Parts, and his love of White Castle
JulieAnn Graham, dancer, movement instructor, teacher of the fundamentals!
That’s my friend JulieAnn Graham! We talk about teaching movement courses in the Columbia College Chicago Theater program. We also discuss just how hard it is to be a freshman in college. But wait there’s more! After the interview, Juliann
John Philbin from Grand Valley State University!
Teaching in the Arts has tenure! Actually, we have John Philbin, my first guest who is a tenured faculty member. John and I talk about the GVSU Summer Film Project, John’s journey from Oak Park, IL to New York, L.A.,
Yuri Lysoivanov from Flashpoint Chicago: A Campus of Columbia College Hollywood
This is Yuri and me late last Friday night. I was shooting a project for a client and staying at a suburban Chicago hotel. When I recorded the podcast, I forgot to get a photo. Lucky for me, Yuri was
Loyola University Chicago Students Marisa Dickens and Asha Lodhia
Marisa Dickens and Asha Lodhia were in my Intro to Production class this spring at Loyola. After grades were posted and they were no longer technically my students, I wanted to have them on to talk about being a student
Perry Harovas, VFX Guru, The Kentucky Derby, and Time for me to Get a Drink!
That’s Perry Harovas in a sound studio at World Wrestling Entertainment Headquarters in Connecticut. Perry does animation and VFX for WWE, but I know him from when we were colleagues in Chicago at Flashpoint Media Arts Academy. Perry was the
Andrea Bunch from the Old Town School of Folk Music
Look at those scarves! It was cold in Chicago last Friday when Andrea Bunch from the Old Town School of Folk Music came by for a chat. Andrea has been at Old Town since 2001. We discuss her journey from Iowa
Amy Berk from the San Francisco Art Institute
On this week’s episode I have a great chat with Amy Berk from the San Francisco Art Institute. She runs the City Studio Program at SFAI, which serves Bay Area youth We talk about City Studio as well as her
Joe Pollock from Catawba College in North Carolina
Hey, That’s Joe Pollock! Joe Pollock was my student during the summer of 1996 at Columbia College Chicago, and he was the first student I selected to be my teaching assistant. Joe has taught K-12 Art, and is now teaching
