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...Paul Stopforth, Lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies, from “The Role of the TA in Drawing?...
Between his time in South Africa and his career at Harvard, Stopforth feels as though he has “two histories, which to some degree is enormously rich...
This summer, Stopforth hopes to spend two weeks working on Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was held during his incarceration. Because his work is so tied to a specific place, Stopforth has found that his work is sometimes inaccessible. “It is often not that easy for Americans to reference. I am something of an outsider for art in America or art in Boston,” he says. “As an exile or an immigrant, that is something that one constantly has to work with...
Waking up early in the morning and often working in his studio late into the evening, Stopforth manages to find time to create art that makes strong statements about issues of apartheid and other injustice in South African society. Despite a lack of time for his own work, Stopforth praises his students as his greatest inspiration. “I have never worked with students whose enthusiasm is so extraordinary,” he says. Unlike students at many art schools, Harvard students don’t arrive with preconceived notions of being an artist, a mentality Stopforth says...
...kind of energy and enthusiasm that students themselves put into their work” inspires Stopforth late into the night...