Reshaping sculpture
Nora Schultz is teaching her first sculpture courses this fall as a new assistant professor in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies. The German artist, who works across many different media, spoke to the Gazette about her influences, her recent fascination with robotics, and how her own projects inform her teaching. GAZETTE: Did you always know you wanted to be an artist? SCHULTZ: I was always connected to art, but at first I didn’t know if I would want to do it as a career. After high school, I was trying a lot of different things before I wanted to leave Frankfurt, but when I was accepted to Städelschule, a small but highly renowned and very international program, I decided to stay. I think that was the best thing that could have happened to me at that time. The professors did not always come in regularly, but there were invited artists...