It’s necessary for students to be able to witness such artistic process, said Letinsky, the visual arts professor. “For us it’s really important just to see somebody whose ideas are developing and coming into a more deliberate, more artistic kind of approach,” she said. “For students who are making work to see the extent of the kind of inquiry that one does in becoming an artist or being a maker — that it’s not just, ‘My first 10 rolls of film are going to be genius and then I’m going to be done’ — I think that’s really important.”