Silhouette

Issue date: 1/18/07 Section: Lifestyles

McCallum

Instructor and father of five, Brian McCallum won first prize for sculpture in the Baker National Arts Competition in Liberal, Kan., last weekend.

McCallum, a ceramic and art instructor has kept busy managing his students while teaching a full load of five preps this semester and displaying his sculptures for competition.

"I was fortunate to win first place for sculpture at Baker National and second place on sculpture here at the Sandhill Art show," McCallum said. "I've won quite a few competitions these last three years which is very impressive because my work isn't what I consider the type of work people respond to."

McCallum said he developed a rhythm of working quite a few hours a day due to the need to support his family during graduate school.

"In graduate school I would work in the evenings then in my studio in the afternoons and nights," McCallum said. "I simply never stopped that rhythm of work so when I go home, my main time I spend alone, I spend sculpting."

McCallum said he doesn't watch TV or do much recreationally but spends that time in his studio sometimes welcoming his children to participate.

"I currently have five kids and one on the way," McCallum said. "My kids come into my studio and help out or come in and make art themselves."

McCallum said that part of being an artist, and an artist that has value to their work, is showing your work around the country, which is important.

"It's not just that you make art," McCallum said. "You enter them into shows around the country. I encourage my students to enter into shows, that is part of the process of making art."

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