We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Randy Globus. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Randy below.

Hi Randy, thanks for joining us today. When did you first know you wanted to pursue a creative/artistic path professionally?

As a young child around age 5, I told my parents when I grow up I want to be an artist like Leonardo da Vinci. I don’t even know how I knew about Leonardo da Vinci but I always knew that I wanted to be an artist from a very young age.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I attended the High School of Art and Design and the School of Visual Arts in New York City. I got an internship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the education department with a well-known, very creative art educator. Although I enjoyed teaching a lot, it was hard to find a job because I hadn’t gone to school for being a teacher. I went to school for being an artist. I worked three jobs simultaneously while putting myself through art school and supporting myself in an apartment. After I graduated the School of Visual Arts, (which I attended on scholarship), I went to the unemployment office and told them I was an artist looking for a job. The Brooklyn Academy of Music needed a graphic artist and they sent me on that job interview and I got that job. Then when Reagan took Office a lot of funding to the arts was cut and BAM was going forced to close their graphic art department. At that time, I found a job opportunity at Philip Morris cigarette company as Assistant to the Supervisor of their graphic art department. I took that job and while working there, I learned how to operate sophisticated state of the art type setting equipment.
Through both of these jobs at the Brooklyn Academy of music and Philip Morris, I became a highly skilled graphic artist where we prepared art for publication and reproduction.
During this time period I got married and had a son. I stayed home to raise my son for a few years.
As he got older, I got a job in the afterschool program at his school, teaching sewing and embroidery. When a job opportunity presented itself to me in the school’s art department, I applied for that job and I got it as an art teacher and wound up teaching there for 18 years.
As an art teacher, I taught many types of skills from drawing to painting to printmaking to ceramics, etc. All types of studio art.

Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?

I am from a low income family. I learned at a very young age that if anything was going to happen in my life, I was the one who had to make it happen. I didn’t have a safety net. I did whatever I had to do to support myself and continue to do my art. I took whatever jobs were available to me. I was the assistant to a bookkeeper in an office in the Garment Center. I spent an entire summer in the Pocono mountains at a hotel as a waitress, etc.

Is there mission driving your creative journey?

My work is very much driven by my subliminal landscape. It is a search for self knowledge. As I have gotten older, I’ve been more aware of my reactions to the world around me and other people. I started to wonder why I have automatic responses. As I look back, I reflect on all my experiences and imagery that I have accumulated in the the depths of my subconscious. I’ve come to realize that life is very fragile and everything can change in a heartbeat. I have also come to realize that there is not any one way that things are supposed to be. Every decision we make changes the course of our life, and there are also unforeseen events that happen that affect our trajectory. My current work is about expressing these ideas.

Contact Info:

• Website: Https://randyglobus.wixsite.com/home
• Instagram: Randyglobus@instagram
• Facebook: Randy Globus@facebook

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Randy Globus