Bill Fick

Illustration by Taylor Homes

Trick or treat? Artist Bill Fick gets through our thick skulls:

What is it about skulls that fascinates you? 

Simple shape. Easy and fun to draw. Loaded with history and cultural significance across the world. Resonates with almost everyone. 

As an art professor, is there a foremost imprint you hope to leave with your students? 

Be passionate about your work. Explore all kinds of visual culture. Go to museums and galleries. Meet other artists and learn from them.

What’s a recent linocut you’d like to share with us and why? Please share a high res photo. 

I carved this block a while back and think it goes well with the Halloween season. Nothing much to it other than it’s freaky and weird. I usually print in black ink but this version is in red.

Famous or infamous person you’d like to meet? 

My thinking with this question is you might as well meet one of the most famous people in human history and some one that might be easy to talk to – or at least mellow not a megalomaniac – so I’ll go with Jesus or the Buddha.

Lights on or off? 

“Exit light
Enter night
Take my hand
We're off to never-never land”

- Metallica

Special Thanks to Duke Arts for sponsoring this post.