Eulogio Guzman is a published illustrator and photographer. The recipient of several awards, he has served as a cultural consultant for Walt Disney Imagineering and has curated a number of exhibitions.

But it’s teaching, says Guzman, that keeps him honest.

“Often during the artmaking process, my ideas do not mature enough,” says Guzman, who teaches visual and critical studies at the SMFA. “But they develop through the work in the classroom. When I return to my art, I engage it on a deeper level—and my work gains a depth it did not have before.”

Guzman draws energy from the classroom in other ways as well. “As a teacher, you have the opportunity to introduce students to a whole new world of ideas, cultures, and worldviews,” he notes. “The visual sophistication of the students here challenges me to grow in my own ability to explore the meaning and significance of images.”

“It's wholly satisfying to know that you have contributed to the intellectual  and emotional maturity that students will use to inform their own work and life.”