Pete goldlust biography
While living in Bisbee, Goldlust served as executive director of the Central School Project, a regional nonprofit arts organization.!
Artists Pete Goldlust & Melanie Germond's marriage has survived their collaboration since ” ——— THE COCONINO SCROLL, a public art project at Flagstaff.
Arts & Entertainment
By Mikael Krummel
Pete Goldlust has long been attracted to whimsy and humor. He’s an artistic painter and craftsman with strong leanings toward sketch art, sculpture, and architectural design; a creative with compelling artistic visions; and a man fascinated by the kid within himself and others.
His artwork often encompasses laughter and silliness, kinetic motion, vibrant colors, robotic contraptions, cartoon-like characters, strange and otherworldly creatures, and unusual vegetation coupled with outlandish insects, birds, and other wildlife critters.
Goldlust and his wife, Melanie Germond, settled in Eugene several years ago after exploring varied options for moving their family from Busby, Arizona, their tiny hometown on the Mexican border.
Finding—or founding—a Montessori school for their two children was a key priority. So, too, was forging new efforts targeting creation of community public art.
“I was diagnosed with depression almost 20 years ago