Columbus College of Art and Design

And so I had reapplied.

I had originally gotten into CCAD, but I was like, "Nope," like, too close.

Needed to go-

Yeah

Well, I fucked around, and I found out [laughs] a couple different times in life.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.So when I was up there for about like six months or so, maybe not that long, I don't remember exactly, but I reapplied for CCAD.

I got in.

That's when I decided I wanted to be in a creative field.

I ended up going to Columbus College of Art and Design.

Originally, I was going as an animator, um, but I learned really quickly I don't have the patience to be an animator.

[laughs] So I actually switched over to illustration, and I wanted to have some practical skills on top of that, so I almost double majored in graphic design.

And when I went to Ohio State University and I was graduating, I took out a five-hour elective class in art, and that was my first introduction really to art.

And I kind of thought, well, why did I miss this in my life? maybe 15 years later I decided to pursue art and I decided to go to Columbus College of Art and Design at night as a full-time student while I worked full-time to try and achieve some drawing and painting skills

okay

and it was at a time when people still answered the phone at Columbus College of Art and Design and I called and I said hey I'm a 35 year old guy I want to learn how to draw what should I do and they said oh you should take a Doug Norman I said, oh, great.

Well, I'll take Doug Norman.

And so I took this guy named Doug Norman for a couple of years.

When I was finishing school, I decided that I wanted to go to college for art and particularly for painting.

And I attended the Columbus College of Art and Design.

So it's in Columbus, Ohio, right behind the museum, which I ended up working at towards the end of my college days and then a little bit afterwards.

And then worked in the Akron Art Museum and the Cleveland Museum of Art as well in Ohio.

They have their thing they're liking that they're good at, and it's cool.

So in the early 90s, Eric Schwartz is attending the Columbus College of Art and Design, CCAD.

And one of the quirks that shows up in his works is that he's really devoted to this obscure computer, the Commodore Amiga, which went from 1985 to 1994.

And I think the greatest pop culture impact that the Commodore Amiga had was the video toaster because video toaster was like a plug-in board for that and ran off of Amiga.