Evan Rumble

I'm originally from southwest WA, but now I reside in Pittsburgh, PA. By trade, I am a public school art teacher, but I try to maintain a professional practice as well. My artwork tends to be mixed-media, often confronting dichotomies, contradictions, and ironies within pop-culture ideals. Recently I've been focused on the highlighting issues within education in America. I periodically will do free-lance design work. To me, art is a way of thinking about, and learning about, everything else. This mantra guides my educational practices as a teacher and my professional practices as a creative.Using a combination of found-object assemblage, collage, painting, and drawing, I create large format two-dimensional works, sculptures, and installations that visually and thematically highlight shortcomings in education. My work critiques and connects to issues inside of—and adjacent to—the educational system in America.
Often these ideas originate from images and artifacts associated with schools, students, and learning such as a mark from a crayon or a desk from a classroom. Additionally, I pull from my own experiences and observations from inside the education system. I am deeply inspired by my interactions with students as well as the political, social, and economic climate in our communities; these two constituents, students and their community, cannot be detached.
This work acts as a platform for advocating for educational rights while also providing an outlet for me as I explore my own understanding and values as an educator and a human being.