George Rickey

Cal Arts was connected to Nova Scotia in those days.

How did that environment shape your understanding of what art and artists could be?

A lot.

Huge.

Because there were no classes, so all they would do, they had so much money, they would bring artists in, and they would do these, like, kind of seminars.

And I met, like, I don't know if you know who R. Penk was-

Mm-hmm

... from East Germany.