INTERVIEW: LYDIA GLOMSKI

Lydia: It was a fellowship with Contemporary Arts Memphis, and some other St. Mary's people had done it the year before. It was their second year. So it's very… brand new. Personally, [it was a] life-changing experience for me. First three weeks we stayed at Saint Columba and went to classes at [Univeristy of Memphis] and we had all sorts of field trips…to…different art shows and even went to [a] festival. Really cool opportunity. Learned a lot of stuff, and we got college credit for the drawing class. And then the last week we got to go to New York, and again we got to see a bunch of galleries and museums and got to go visit a bunch of artists’ studios, which was really cool because these are like up-there artists. We got to see the process behind all their stuff, all their art…That was…just inspiring.

Lydia: New York was absolutely insane because…I feel like I'm just like an average high schooler or whatever, and the fact that all thirty of us got to go to New York for free, and we…made all these connections with different people like art collectors in Brooklyn and Manhattan and got to meet these really accredited artists, and not even just meeting people, but also being able to experience their art and experience the art world basically first hand was absolutely insane. It was very inspiring. It really put into perspective that this is possible. 

LYDIA: Honestly, a little bit unreal. Because I grew up going to my dad's shows where his art was up and…I was like, wow, that's so cool. And I really never expected my own art to be put up somewhere like the Brooks…It was just crazy because I grew up going to the Brooks Museum, [and] looking at all these super cool artists and feeling like, wow, that's so amazing. And then the fact that my own pieces were put up in the same building is: I don't even know, I have no words

Lydia: Honestly…my favorite is the one that was in the Brooks, the painting that I did. Because before I got into CAM, the way I thought about art was entirely different. And the whole point of doing the painting the month after we got out of CAM was to really display our growth as artists, and I feel like that painting was a turning point for me. It's called “Idol.” That was definitely a turning point in my art.