Bio

BIO     Scott Eagle is an Associate Professor and serves as the Area Coordinator for the Painting and Drawing program at the School of Art and Design, at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. His paintings and illustrations have been exhibited and reproduced internationally. Publications featuring his work include The Oxford American, The New York Times, Wired Magazine, Juxtapoz, and numerous books. Scott was selected by Creative Quarterly Magazine as one of their top 100 creatives for 2013 and his work is currently displayed on the exterior of the US Embassy in Beijing, China. He works in a wide variety of mediums including digital and is especially interested in the idea of the creative act as thinking through making.

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THINKING THROUGH MAKING

  1. The creative act is any situation or activity that elicits invention in any form.

  2. The creative act is always a response to an impetus (internal or external to an individual or group). Stated simply; the creative act is always an attempt to solve a problem.

  3. When the creative process requires multiple attempts/iterations/ fabrications, that process can best be understood as thinking through making. (See Tim Ingold)

I am an object and image maker and I use objects and imagery in the same way that writers use words or musicians use sound: as a communicative medium. More specifically, I use images to represent ideas and issues that I am dealing with in my day to day life. For me the creative act and the process of making is always a learning experience and quite often the object or image that I create changes me as much as I change it.