Dustyn Bork has been known to call himself an artist. However, he is not opposed to an artist being labeled within a specific genre; Dustyn accepts printmaker / painter as safe a title as any, but he often works in the nebulous realm of mixed media. When painting is considered deceased (as it often is) he is more contented with the label of printmaker, and when nobody within earshot knows quite what a printmaker does or makes, then plain old artist is fine. Dustyn first became a printmaker when he strutted across a white carpet with muddy shoes and continues to hone the craft having studied with many prodigious midwestern printmakers earning his MFA in printmaking from Indiana University: Bloomington, Indiana in 2002 and his BFA in printmaking from the University of Michigan: Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1999. He often works with cast-off materials, reclaimed supplies, and mundane patterning and considers it a reflection of splendor and chaos in the global scrap heap.
Dustyn Bork has found there exists quite a fine reciprocity between teaching in the academic setting and cultivating ones creative work in the studio, as such is currently a Lecturer in Foundations and Printmaking at the University of Toledo: Center for the Visual Arts where he joined the faculty full time in 2003. Dustyn Bork has exhibited in numerous juried printmaking exhibitions and shows his work regionally, nationally, and has shown internationally. When he is not making art he collects things to make art with and spends time and money adding to his collection of plaid shirts, shoes, and vinyl records.