At ‘DEAD END.,’ skate culture takes center stage

Excerpt from article found on Central Current.

As a teen in Syracuse in the early 1990s, William Strobeck had an innate desire to be different. He would occasionally try sports to conform to the “follow the leader” culture in high school, but couldn’t summon the interest. Simply doing what his peers did wasn’t appealing, so he turned to skateboarding.

“I wanted to be different from everyone in my school and skateboarding gave me that option first,” said Strobeck, who, 35 years later, is curator of the skateboarding-focused “DEAD END” exhibit currently on view at the very place he first discovered skate culture: Everson Museum of Art.