Byron Clercx

Born in 1960 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, I grew up middle class and Midwestern, with artists and arts educators in my family. The appreciation and fabrication of art was an integral part of my formative years. Observing my father, I witnessed him employ art as a vehicle for personal inquiry and expression. In the classroom, he parlayed his desire to inquire to his students. Thus, artmaking – and the teaching of artmaking – seemed like a viable way to live one's life.