Dale Andress
I’m an artist with work experience in metal fabrication, process and manufacturing engineering, civil engineering and risk management. In my youth I was a garbage picker. I would drag things home, tear them apart, sometimes just to see how they work, sometimes to put them back together in a different form. In high school my parents were scratching their heads wondering why anyone would build a wall out of empty beer cans or make a couch out of a clawfoot bathtub, but they went with it. In college I majored in graphic design at NAU, and received my BFA. I took a 3D design class and was hooked. Working with my hands and seeing creations formed from raw materials, that I could never accomplish in the 2D world, was where I found direction for my artistic endeavors.