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EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:
Arizona State University, Tempe
Arizona: Bachelor of Fine Arts in
Oil Painting. Graduated May 1981
Two years in a
Teacher Certification Program at University
of Phoenix 1998.
Continuing
Education, Studied with some of the finest painters in America.:
KEN AUSTER KEVIN MacPHERSON RALPH OBERG
KEN BACKHAUS RAY ROBERTS JILL CARVER
JOHN BUDICIN RICHARD SCHMID CAROL MARINE
SCOTT
CHRISTENSEN MATT SMITH JENNIFER McCHRISTIAN
LEN CHMIEL GEORGE STRICKLAND ROBERT LEMLER
MARK DAILY CURT WALTERS PHIL BECK
T. ALEN LAWSON SKIP WHICOMB JOESEPH PAQUET
DAN ROBINSON GREG KREUTZ DONALD DEMERS
JOHN POON R.S. RIDDICK MICHAEL ALBRECHTSON
AWARDS:
Southwest Art
Magazine Award: Emerging Artist Sonoran Arts Festival 2004
1st place award in
Oil Painting: Evergreen Arts Festival Colorado 2002
Phippen Museum Foundation Award for Museum Quality Work. 2000
PUBLICATIONS:
SOUTHWEST ART
MAGAZINE Oct 2000 and 2004
EXIBITIONS:
Estes Park Plein Air Invitational - Colorado 2004
Norby Art Gallery - Cave
Creek, AZ One Man Show
2004
Denton Art Center - Kansas One Man Show 2002
Laguna Plein Air
Invitational - California 2001, 2003, 2004
CM Russell Show -
Montana 2001
Gilcrease Museum
Miniature Show - Tulsa, OK.
2001
Plein Air
Invitational Tucson AZ 2000
TEACHING: SCOTTSDALE ART SCHOOL since 2001