User:Amr12

Austin Retzlaff is currently working on his Div III. He grew up in Rochester, New York, then spent one year at Oberlin, spent another year traveling and working, and ultimately transferred to Hampshire in F12. Austin enjoys hitch-hiking, Yurt radio, derives, futurist nostalgia, describing self-conceived performance art fiascos that never come to fruition, the Beat era, redecorating his bedroom, the savory tension between the comfortable and uncomfortable aspects of Hampshire's insularity, clichés, and smug abstinence from Facebook. He can usually be found… well, let's change the subject.

Wormhole Summer
An online multimedia story using image, text, sound and video to convey the tale of a group of Hampshire students who start an urban commune in pre-hypergentrification Brooklyn.

Fall 2014

 * Leadership and Networking (Robert Lowry) at UMass Amherst

Spring 2014

 * Photographs, Facts & Fictions: Sex and Death in America, 1920-1929 (Michael Lesy)
 * Interactive Digital Multimedia (Lindsey French) at Smith College
 * Media & Motion Graphics (Ryan MacDonald) at UMass Amherst

Jan-Term 2014

 * The Mindful Writer: How Daily Meditation Might Affect Your Writing Practice (Heather Madden)

Fall 2013

 * CMYK: Graphic Design Studio (Thom Long)
 * Intro to Digital Media (Sue Huang) at Smith College
 * Ba-Da-Bing, Ba-Da-Boom (Peter Gilford) independent study
 * Outdoor Adventure Sampler (Karen Warren)
 * facilitated Mail Artists' Studio: Letters As Art And Literature EPEC

Spring 2013

 * What Is Psychotherapy? (Peter Gilford)
 * Learning at Hampshire (Laura Wenk)
 * Dynamics of Displacement (Jill Lewis)
 * The Practice of Literary Journalism (Michael Lesy)

Jan-Term 2013

 * Making Sense of the Numbers: Statistics and Design in Psychology (Melissa Burch)
 * Defensive Driving
 * First Aid

Fall 2012

 * Design Investigations (Naomi Darling)
 * Introduction to Social Psychology (Tom Cain)
 * Experiential Education (Karen Warren)
 * Contact Improvisation (Sara Coffin)
 * The Barn Study (Karen Koehler) independent study

Division I
Completed these requirements with classes from freshman year at Oberlin

Other Habits

 * Works at the Hampshire College Post Office
 * Art Barn Monitor

Formerly:


 * Cook at the Night Truck
 * DJ for Yurt Radio
 * Archives Assistant
 * Prescott TavernArts Curator
 * Workshop Facilitator at the Wellness Center
 * Mixed Nuts Volunteer
 * Production Assistant for the Reader spring 2013
 * Volunteer at the Back Rub Club