As an artist and a scientist, Spencer Homick ’06 embodies
the liberal arts. Homick, a fine arts major from Coventry,
Conn., (Suffield Academy) explains, “I like to engineer things
as much as I like to paint a canvas. Art schools know how to get
you to draw, but not how to get you to understand relativity or inflected
languages. At St. Lawrence I can do both.”
Homick
has found other outlets for his creativity. A music lover, he helps run Java Barn,
where musicians and other performers entertain on weekends, and lives
in its adjoining theme house.
He’s a graphics editor for a student literary magazine and
a columnist for the student newspaper, is on the Steering
Committee for ongoing arts center renovations,
and works in Brush Art Gallery.
As for other artistic outlets, he adds with a smile, “I was also last fall’s designated Halloween pumpkin carver for the communications department.”
As proof that he and a liberal arts environment are the right fit,
he says his favorite semester at St. Lawrence was “when I took
Russian, physics, painting
and music.
It was insane but I loved it. I like to learn from different fields
all at once.
In
his final semester, Homick looks forward to his own show at
the Brush Art Gallery. “The idea of creating
and inventing things for the rest of my life thrills me, so after I
graduate I hope to find a way to make this work,” he says.
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