A day in the life of Scott Jost starts between four and five in the morning. In the mornings, Jost gets his children ready for school, does some schoolwork, and catches up on house work. On the way to Bridgewater, he drops his children off at their school, which luckily is on the way to Bridgewater’s campus. He gets to BC at about 8:30 a.m. Classes start at 9 for Jost and can continue all day, like on Thursdays when he has classes until 6:00 p.m. “I keep the low intensity brain work to the end of the day because I’m just spent,” Scott says. Dr. Scott Jost is a professor in the Art Department of Bridgewater College. He’s been teaching here for fourteen years. He teaches classes that range from introductory courses, such as Introduction to Visual Design and Introduction to Digital Media, to advanced coursed, such as Senior Critique.
Evenings at home are for family time. This structured schedule continues until the weekend, but Saturday’s are used as a catch up day. Sunday’s are the least cluttered for Jost, he uses this day to relax and sometimes create art .
Jost’s favorite classes to teach are on the opposite ends of the college experience. He loves Introduction to Visual Design. “The students are very energetic and free since they are just starting out. Also, I just love working with the basics of art,” Jost says. On the other end of the spectrum, he enjoys the senior seminars, where he has the opportunity to critique and encourage senior art students who are doing their studio projects.
Though his schedule is packed, being a professor has helped Jost in his creative inspiration. “I’ve had a great deal of creative discovery through teaching. I get to see new and innovative work from students,” Scott says. Also, one of Scott’s projects, Teaching through the Lens, is inspired by the classroom, his students and what he’s experienced while teaching.
At the moment, Scott has three projects that he’s working on. With his “Shenandoah Valley Apples: Where History and Photography Meet” project, Jost is working on getting the draft of book to the printer and fixing some of the photographic prints. “Teaching through the Lens” is paused for the moment, due to his busyness. Jost has also been experimenting with “Passing, Still,”which are photographs that he has taken out the window of cars that are passing through the countryside of Virginia, Kansas, and West Virginia. “I’m trying to capture the moving experience that creates a dream-like landscape,” Jost says.
Next semester, Jost will be on sabbatical. This will be the first opportunity he has ever had to work as a full time artist. He will spend this time to do an ecological landscape project, where he photographs waterway convergences. He’s already done a few experimental shots of theses convergences. “Things happen at intersections. Layers of history are visible to the naked eye,” Jost says.
For more information on Scott Jost’s work or to view his photography visit his website at http://www.scottjost.net.
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