Shawn Brixey

Shawn Brixey (born January 23, 1961, in Springfield, Missouri) is an artist, educator, researcher, and inventor.

Brixey attended both the Kansas City Art Institute and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1980s to pursue a hybridized form of artmaking that employs engineering tools to create ephemeral and large-scale works. Since 1990, he has served as a visiting artist, faculty member, and chair of a number of North American arts institutions, including the Cranbrook Academy of Art, University of Washington, and Canadian Foundation for Innovation. In 2013, he became Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts at York University, in Toronto, Ontario. From 2017 to 2019, he served as Dean of Virginia Commonwealth University's School of the Arts, the Special Assistant to the Provost for the School of the Arts in Qatar, and both a professor of VCUarts and an affiliate professor of the VCU College of Engineering. Provided by Wikipedia