Bush Foundation Fellowships

Mike Hazard

2008 Bush Artist Fellowship
Minnesota
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Career Field: Media Arts
Secondary Field: Video

Mike Hazard (St. Paul, Minn.) is artist-in-residence at The Center for International Education in St. Paul. He loves to use a camera to see the world through another person’s eyes. Known as Media Mike, Hazard works as an artist-in-the-schools. Five of Hazard’s films have enjoyed national release on PBS; his video C. BECK is the current grand prize winner of the ITVS Short Film Competition. His documentary on the late politician and poet Eugene McCarthy was awarded the D.L. Mabery prize, Minnesota’s Oscar. Hazard says, “Once upon a good time in sixth grade, my dad took me out of school to help him film a story about the radical abolitionist, John Brown. Almost 50 years later, when people ask why I love the camera, I always laugh with the story that starts, ‘In the beginning, I got out of school.’”