Dillon Paul
Art Education
Why I chose this graduate program:
I chose this program for its progressive approach to art education. I want to create social change by helping to foster an educational system that supports innovation, imagination, collaboration, critical thinking, and diversity.
When I hear the word "genius," I think of:
Anybody. Nobody. Everybody.
A nightmare I've had about school:
The school is infested with tiny bugs that are embedded with surveillance cameras, and my team of science fiction geeks is too small to find them all.
The best job I've ever had: Creating and performing in the work of Japanese choreographer Min Tananka in Japan.
The professor who influenced me the most:
SA Bachman, a teacher of photography and critical art theory at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA.
My favorite place to study around NYU:
A park bench at Thompkins Square Park
A hobby I have nobody knows about:
I make up songs when I'm riding my bike and sing them while the horns are blaring and no one can hear me.
Community service I am most proud of:
Developing performance work with youth from the Medicine Wheel Productions summer program in South Boston.
If I could take a year off, I would:
Travel to Cuba to dance and study Spanish.
After I graduate, I:
Want to put my education to use
Background Information
Where you grew up:
Boston, MA
Honors/Awards/etc.:
Magna Cum Laude, Barnard College
Community service/ work experience:
Professional contemporary dancer (Min Tanaka, Paula Josa-Jones/Performance Works, among others), Adjunct Professor of Video and Performance (School of the Museum of Fine Arts, UC Berkeley, Berkeley High School), Professional Videographer/Editor