David Wright is a time traveler. The Gallatin-based artist transports himself from the twenty-first century to the eighteenth century as deftly as the bilingual bounce from tongue to tongue in the same conversation.
Many artists take a conventional path in their education, attending art school, college, university, or doing an apprenticeship with a master.
Jeff Faust joined the carnival.
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