I was extended the honor of sharing the airwaves with my mentor and former curator of the Missoula Art Museum in 2017. This program celebrates the visual arts and the process of observing.

Every two years Missoula County Public Schools High School Art classes are invited to exhibit for a mass district wide art show in the Southgate Mall Missoula, MT. This specific link is video news footage of my press release and community outreach regarding this meaningful event-via KPAX news.

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My Conceits in Pictures and Words
Dustin Hoon

My conceits, like so many human apprehensions, are played out in pictures and words. Thank you for entertaining a few of my conceits. The word conceit suggests negativity more often than not; however, conceit may also be defined as a concept, a human thought occupying more time than others, persisting where others fade. My conceits have crossed the line. As a younger artist and public school teacher of visual art, the prevailing notion held that my personal work remained necessarily separate from my professional instruction. Never the twain shall meet, so to speak, as it was and remains the convention; but, productivity in my teaching occasionally out-paced thematic bodies of personal work. Increasingly, my aesthetic and theoretical interests worked their way into a growing number of art demonstrations, work that I would later resolve. On occasion, my conceits and stylistic sensibilities infiltrate my work as an art teacher through the peculiar and specific phenomenon that is the studio demo.

This exhibition willfully abandons the constraints conspiring with long-held notions, sentiments that seek to separate my instructional artwork from my so-called personal work. In doing so, I am hopefully filling this space with truth. Truthfully, I make as much or more two-dimensional artwork with and for my students than artwork from my home studio. There are a few meandering and connective threads that bind much of the two realms. My sculptural and ceramic instructive products have remained, just that, instructive, but my pictures made at home and my pictures generated in the classroom enjoy a long-distance relationship. Let’s consider both sides of the same coin. I hope to present the two (vocational and idiosyncratic) lines of art by displaying artwork replete with connective narrative, words, text, and subtext, all delivered through a variety of media and supports. One of my beloved art professors had a mantric question spanning time and space: “ Are you making stuff?” Yes I’m making stuff;...and so, please humor the additional conceit of looking at my work and all that it entails. Enjoy.