Ben Volta

Different from many of the speakers that have come to Tyler, Ben Volta, is more of an artist with a cause. He works mostly with students from middle school to high school developing on their creative skills through giving different assignments. He seems like a natural teacher starting out with simple ideas for his students and then building on those ideas. For instance he let a group of his pupils draw whatever they could think of that one would find in certain rooms in houses. Like in a kitchen there is a table and a sink and so on. From there through working together on computers and designing they were able to make a mural that would be like wall paper on the side of a building using all those little images that they had drawn in the first place. He just seems like he has such a direction and vision for how he wants kids to progress creatively. And somehow he is able to get out of these students a sense of a collaborative style that who can say his Volta's or theirs because he is more of a creative director and they are more of the artists. It is interesting to see the different kind of work one can do with an art degree and passion.