Scott Gundersen, a resident of a lively southeast Grand Rapids neighborhood, earned his BFA in Art Education from Western Michigan University in 2002. For seven years, as a full-time high school art instructor, he has been using his knowledge of and passion for art to inspire the next generation. In that time, he has had the opportunity to teach over 2000 students. Scott's artwork is held in many private collections around the city and he is a top 50 finisher in this years ArtPrize, with his work currently on display at San Chez Bistro. When not teaching or creating, Scott loves to read, bike, and travel the world with is new wife, Jeanne.Nick Zyskowski is a fresman at Central Michigan University.
About the Design:
The design doves>guns was birthed from a collaboration between a teacher and a student in the fall of 2008. After a lesson and discussion on the work of the popular street artist, BANKSY had ended in Scott Gundersen's high school art classroom, Nick Zyskowski a student and Gundersen began a brainstorming ideas of their own, which they began screen printing for their friends and family. The doves>guns shirt was a big hit with sly yet serious social political message. The collaboration continued and a limited run of parody shirts followed, including "buffalos&bombs", "penguins&pistols", and "John McCain does the Robot", however nothing could match their early success of the doves>guns design. Their collaboration seemed to be all but over when shirtprize was announced. Can doves>guns make a comeback? Will the collaboration continue? Only time will tell.
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