About the Artist

Brittany Seabloom
UW-Madison Student (2008)
Art Major, Woodworking/Furniture Design Emphasis
bmseabloom@wisc.edu

I grew up as a “Hodag” in Rhinelander, WI. Graduating in 2003, I came directly to UW-Madison, sure I was destined to be a doctor. After two unsatisfying years as a pre-med student, I decided to change my focus to art, with the intention of pursing a masters in architecture. In the summer of 2006, I was accepted into a summer architecture program at Columbia University in New York City. Sure that it would do wonders for my education and career, I took out a loan to cover the $2200 tuition (for only 3 credits), and flew to New York for six weeks. After the first day of the class, I realized that architecture was not for me, and I dropped out. I lost my housing in the dorms, and instead of going home, I decided to find a place to sublet for the rest of the summer and use my tuition refund to live on. It was the best decision of my life. I rented a studio apartment in the West Village, and saw the entire island of Manhattan. (To read more on my New York adventures, visit my blog at http://seabloom.wordpress.com)

Returning to Wisconsin was extremely difficult, but luckily in my first semester back I discovered an unrequited love for woodworking and furniture design. After the first project in my Intro to Woodworking class, I was hooked. I’ll graduate in 2008 with a degree in art, and I plan on taking the year off, moving back to New York, and then going to graduate school in Industrial Design and/or Furniture Design.