Then, as someone who has been “collecting things almost since birth,” he began “poking around in that.” He began focusing on the question: “What is it that I know and do that I can bring to an art practice?” Films are collaborative and you need so many people – a photographer, a sound person. “I wanted to try and do something that didn’t take 15 people to make a piece of art. Since then, he’s made 100 short films and seven feature-length documentaries about art and artists.Īnd while he loves filmmaking and will continue, Scholl says that about eight years ago he felt he wanted to expand his practice.
“And (the film) received a lot of attention.” “I enjoyed the process and the collaborative part of filmmaking,” he says. He co-directed it with two other filmmakers, Marlon Johnson and Chad Tingle, and he felt what having his own creative practice was like. It was in 2009 when he made his first film, the six-minute short “Sunday’s Best,” a documentary that highlighted the African-American custom of wearing extraordinary hats to church services.
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Seasoned arts leader Dennis Scholl, president and CEO, of Oolite Arts is leaving after six years to dedicate his work full time to creating films and his own visual art. (For context, in 44 years of collecting, he’s amassed nearly 2,000 works and continues to purchase art.) “I was a patron and a collector and a fan,” says Scholl. Now, after years of being a supporter of artists and leaving the art-making to artists, Scholl says it is time to turn his attention to his own creative practice. Knight Foundation, where he oversaw the foundation’s national arts program, directing the giving of grants to artists and arts organizations. Prior to that, from 2009 to 2015, he was vice president for arts at John S. “Untitled (DiMaggio honeymoon),” 2022, acquired objects and graphite 57 1/2″ X 57 1/2″ (Photo courtesy of Hua International)Ī large part of Dennis Scholl’s success as an arts leader, collector, documentary filmmaker, and every one of his endeavors from attorney to entrepreneur is that when he commits to something, he does just that – commit.įor the past six years, he has been devoted to Oolite Arts as the president and CEO of the Miami-based non-profit artist support organization.
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