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HIGHLIGHTS

America’s Sole Proprietorship Dedicated to Supporting Public Discourse through the Arts

~ Peace through Art ~

Public One-person Exhibitions

 

~ Lincoln University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

~ James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia; Furious Flower Festival

~ Walt Whitman Birthplace, West Hills, New York; Black History Month City College of New York, IRIDAC ~ Gallery; Langston Hughes Festival

~ University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Augusta Savage Gallery; Twenty-six Ways of Looking at a Blackman 

 

Selected Collections

Lincoln University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A.R. Ammons (estate), Ithaca, New York
Mr. A. Akira, Tokyo, Japan and New York City.New York
Ms. Ingrid Rankin, Austin, Texas
Dr. James Barr, New York City, New York
Mr. Sheldon Berkowitz, New York City, New York
M. Anders Ardmar, Malmo, Sweden
Ms. Eve Abels, Beck Holland
Mr. Hector Perez, Col. Prados de Coyoacan, Mexico
Ms. Mary Kane, Ithaca, New York
Dr. Sidney Warschausky (estate), Ann Arbor, Michigan

 

The Community

 

Extensive outreach and pro bono community involvement, including creation of and/or participation in exhibitions to benefit Literacy Volunteers of Tompkins County, New York as Trustee and graphic designer, The Tompkins County, New York Task Force for Battered Women and Child Sexual Abuse Project (now, Advocacy Center), The American Diabetes Association, ALS Foundation, AIDSwork, the Fingerlakes Bach Festival as Trustee and graphics coordinator, and Public School enrichment programs in Ithaca, New York and Santa Fe and Rio Rancho, New Mexico. 

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Bibliography

 

April, 2012, Considering the Homeless and Indigent, Tompkins Weekly April, 2012 Library Forum, Exhibit bringing indigent issues to forefront, Ithaca Times, Odyssey Publications
March, 2010 Artist Pitches In for Advocacy Center, Tompkins (New York) Weekly March, 2010, Broader View Weekly, Preview 

February, 2010, The Press Sun-Bulletin, Review
November, 2008 Artist/Instructor, The Thinking Eye, Gannett Publications February, 2004 Twenty-Six Ways...The Guide Best Bets, New York Times
December, 1995 Drawing Lessons Pay Off..., Ithaca Journal, Gannett Publications October, 1995 Best Bets, Ithaca Journal, Gannett Publications
August, 1995 Camp Delivers to Young Artists, The Star-Gazette, Elmira, New York December, 1994 Posing a Problem, Ithaca Times, Odyssey Publications
August, 1990 An Open Invitation..., Ithaca Journal, Gannett Publications
May, 1990 The Art of Controversy, Ithaca Times, Odyssey Publications
March, 1990 All About Women, Ithaca Times, Odyssey Publications
November, 1989 Sampling of Visual Delights, Ithaca Journal, Gannet Publications October, 1989 Best Bets, Ithaca Journal, Gannett Publications
October, 1989 A Gallery of New Possibilities, Ithaca Times, Odyssey Publications 

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Awards and Honors 

1990 New York Press Association, 2nd Prize, Special Issues Cover Illustration for Ithaca Times, Odyssey Publications
1977 Queens College, New York City, New York; Jubilee Exhibition 1st Prize, Graphic Arts 

1976 Pratt Institute, New York City, New York; Exhibition Honorable Mention, Graphic Arts 

1975-76 Brooklyn Museum Art School, New York City, New York; Bursar's Scholarships

 

Teaching and Public Lectures 

2005 Tompkins County Public Library, Ithaca, New York; Guest Lecturer
2002-03 Santa Fe, New Mexico Public Schools: Youth Enrichment Instructor
1998 Boynton Middle School, Ithaca, New York; Career Days Presenter
1995 Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, New York; Summer Teaching Faculty
1992-94 Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga Counties BOCES Department of Continuing and Adult Education; Teaching Faculty 

1992-94 Caroline Elementary School, Caroline, New York; Arts Enrichment Instructor 

1991-96 Northeast Elementary School, Ithaca, New York; Arts Enrichment Instructor 

1990-92 Southern Tier Institute for Arts in Education, Binghamton, New York; Teaching Artist, Curator, and Teacher-trainer for the Lincoln Center (New York) Arts in Education Program 

1989-98 Community School of Music and Art, Ithaca, New York; Teaching Faculty
1989-90 Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; Guest Lecturer; The Business of Art 

1989 Boy Scouts of America, Lansing, New York, Guest Lecturer, The Artist as Professional 

1988-Present Private Instructor; Painting, Drawing, Watercolor, Stone Carving, Art Marketing, Portfolio Creation and Review

 

Education 

2004-5 Cape Ann, Massachusetts and Cape Elizabeth, Maine; Independent Work-study 

2000-04 Santa Fe, New Mexico and "Four Corners" region; Independent Work-study
1994 Community School of Music and Art, Ithaca, New York; William Benson, Drawing the Head
1992 The Carving Studio, West Rutland, Vermont; Fred X. Brownstein, Figurative Marble Carving
1992 Community School of Music and Art, Ithaca, New York; Carol Ast, Portrait Sculpture 1986 Paris, Arles and St. Maries de la Mer, France; Independent Work/study
1986 New Jersey Center for Visual Art, Summit, New Jersey; Howard Nathenson, Painting 

1975-76 Brooklyn Museum Art School, New York City, New York; Jane Kaufman, Painting, Sheridan Lord, Painting; Barney Hodes, Sculpting the Figure
1974 Art Students League, New York City, New York; Marshall Glaiser, Life Drawing, Michael Ponce de Leon, Stone Lithography 

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Miscellaneous 

-Currently writing Drawing is Seeing - Observational Techniques for the Artist and Teacher. 

-Illustrator/Designer to Tompkins and Seneca Counties, New York businesses and institutions including Cornell University, The Binghamton Symphony Orchestra and The State of New York. -Founding arts editor, illustrator and publication co-designer, The Bookpress, Ithaca, New York. -Originating member, Community Arts Coalition, Ithaca, New York. 

-Contributing visual artist, Odyssey Publications' Ithaca Times.


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