Creative opportunity
One draws for Mad magazine. One photographs women boxers. One mixes animation with architecture. Welcome to the quirky, quizzical world of this year’s visiting faculty members at Harvard’s Department of Visual and Environmental Studies (VES). There are eight in all: Five will teach courses this fall; three in the spring. All of them like the idea of taking their art into the classroom. “I don’t see any place better where I can learn new things,” said animator and filmmaker Allen Sayegh, M.Des.S. ’96, a Cambridge architect who is also a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. “Teaching and research are very complementary ways of working.” Photographer Jeff Sheng ’02 mixes his creative practice with teaching anyway, at the University of California, Santa Barbara. “I enjoy sharing the lessons of my own journey as an artist and photographer,” he wrote in an email — adding that a “synergy” often comes out of it...