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Franz Spohn
American, 1950
Franz Spohn
Franz Spohn, artist and humanitarian, began life wanting to be a cowboy, but upon winning the Pancake Supper Poster Contest at Montrose Elementary School he found the prospects of being an artist more appealing.
Franz earned his M.F.A. in printmaking and drawing from the Ohio State University and has taught at University of the Arts, Walla Walla State Penitentiary and currently retired from Edinboro University . He is co-producer and host of the PBS instructional series Eureka! the Creative Art Series (winner of a NEA development grant) and has had his work featured on Ripley’s Believe It Or Not, the Food Channel’s the Secret Life of Gum, and the remake of I’ve Got A Secret on the Game Show Channel. He co-hosted the long running PBS series Hands On Crafts for Kids.
Franz also enjoys orchestrating the construction of monumental community participation murals made of gumballs. These are generally 6’ - 8’ large and use over 13,000 gumballs, with 8 colors he uses the pointillist tradition (he often refers to the murals as sweet pointillism). Google Franz Spohn images and a variety of these 200+ murals will reveal portraits of Gene Wilder (as Willy Wonka), President Obama, Martin Luther King, Jr, Jay-Z and other images.
He has been a visiting artist at the University of Lethbridge Fine Arts Department.
Franz Spohn, artist and humanitarian, began life wanting to be a cowboy, but upon winning the Pancake Supper Poster Contest at Montrose Elementary School he found the prospects of being an artist more appealing.
Franz earned his M.F.A. in printmaking and drawing from the Ohio State University and has taught at University of the Arts, Walla Walla State Penitentiary and currently retired from Edinboro University . He is co-producer and host of the PBS instructional series Eureka! the Creative Art Series (winner of a NEA development grant) and has had his work featured on Ripley’s Believe It Or Not, the Food Channel’s the Secret Life of Gum, and the remake of I’ve Got A Secret on the Game Show Channel. He co-hosted the long running PBS series Hands On Crafts for Kids.
Franz also enjoys orchestrating the construction of monumental community participation murals made of gumballs. These are generally 6’ - 8’ large and use over 13,000 gumballs, with 8 colors he uses the pointillist tradition (he often refers to the murals as sweet pointillism). Google Franz Spohn images and a variety of these 200+ murals will reveal portraits of Gene Wilder (as Willy Wonka), President Obama, Martin Luther King, Jr, Jay-Z and other images.
He has been a visiting artist at the University of Lethbridge Fine Arts Department.