Blog Post 1: Introduction

Hi, my name is Mackenzie Edwards. I have the credits of a junior, but this is my first year at Knox College having transferred from Carl Sandburg College where I received my Associate of Arts and still work there as a tutor in statistics. I am sort of from Galesburg since I moved here when I started high school, but before that I’ve lived in Wisconsin, Texas, and Ohio. However, I tend to just say I am from Wisconsin because I consider where I used to live there my hometown, and I spend a lot of time there visiting friends nearly every month (my car has so many miles on it now). I am majoring in art and would like to teach at the college level at some point in addition to producing and selling my own works. I am interested in and have at least dabbled in all mediums from tattooing to printmaking. However, painting and sculptural ceramics are probably my favorite to create and I just recently had one of my ceramic sculptures at the Galesburg Community Arts Center for their Members and Friends show. Some of my non-academic interests include reading, watching horror movies, trying out new recipes, camping, hiking, and concert-going (especially ones that I get to travel to new places for). I was not planning on taking a history course outside of art history, but this one piqued my interest primarily because Indigenous histories are not something I have experience learning about within the public school system and I think it would be beneficial for me to have a broader understanding of some of it in order to provide context to Native artworks I will encounter going forward. I am also very excited to look into Native American activism later in this course and see its interplay with works of art that would have been created around the same time.