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Troy University professor owns successful bottling company “Killer Robot Studio”

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Sarah Mountain Staff Writer A Troy University teacher and Troy alumnus are the owners of a bottling company, a business they started with one goal in mind – having fun.  Greg Skaggs is an art professor at Troy and Walter Black is a local artist. Their company, Killer Robot Studio, is the product of their creativity and has been in business for four years, becoming an independent LLC within the last two. “Walter and I were trying to find a way to collaborate on a project,” Skaggs said. “Walter is…

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Art professor’s accidental iPhone pics form collages, make international exhibition

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Lacey Alexander Staff Writer Beverly Leach, lecturer in art and design, has three photo collages on display in an international exhibition in Vermont this month. Leach currently has a collection of collages featured at the International Photography Exhibition at the Vermont Center for Photography in Brattleboro, Vermont. The collages are composed of iPhone photos that Leach accidentally took that she said resemble “abstract expressionist paintings.” “It’s this idea that sometimes the accidents that happen on my cellphone sometimes look interesting” Leach said. “To me that’s like play… Like if you’re…

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