As my time in graduate school comes to a closeI have been more and more motivated to work with the public, not just being a good citizen, but cultivating a dialogue between sculpture and the rest of the world. This past year I was fortunate enough to raise money through private sponsors and the Puffin Foundation, to travel to India for five weeks. In India I was a volunteer English teacher, I taught English with an art emphases. I was located far north in the Himalayan Mountains, in a village called Dharmsala. A village near where the Dalai Lama lives. Upon my arrival back in the United States, I realized that I do not want to spend my life making artwork where I find myself cooped up in a closed off studio somewhere. I need to be with people, in a productive educational environment where sculpture, in all of its ways can teach up together. So last semester I invited four Syracuse City High School art classes to come and visit the Syracuse University Sculpture Department. Each workshop consisted students in eleventh and twelfth grade. During the visits the students learned about pouring Aluminum metal into sand molds. They learned how to go about making there own molds and prepping them for the actual pour of the metal. An assistant and myself poured the metal in all of the students sand molds, while they all watched with enthusiasm. I truly want my students to love the work that they do with their hands, I want them to feel a gratification that only hard work and appreciation can provide. After these workshops came to a close, other organizations have asked us to do sand mold workshops for students. I recently held one for summer camps inner-city kids ages eleven trough sixteen years of age.