Arts fellow Veldkamp paints with fresh perspective

By the Lewis Center for the Arts on Sept. 2, 2015, 9 a.m.
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Miko Veldkamp, a visual artist from the Netherlands, discusses his year at Princeton's Lewis Center for the Arts as a Hodder Fellow, during which he studied proximity and scale and experimented with different painting surfaces and materials. The Lewis Center is accepting applications for the 2016-17 Hodder and 2016-18 Princeton Arts Fellowships through Sept. 14. 

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