Ovation was created nearly a decade ago to push students to be more creative, innovative, complex thinkers, traits that are desirable with prospective employers.

Thomas Warfield, director of dance and professor of practice at NTID's Department for Performing Arts, appeared on WXXI's Connections with Evan Dawson to discuss consumer's relationships with artists and their creative work, and whether one can truly separate the art from the artist.

Award-winning performer and Rochester, N.Y., native Thomas Warfield has been named the first Professor of Practice by Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf.