b.1960, Utica, NY
Education
85 - 87 MFA School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
79 - 82 BFA Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
83 Independent Study: Rome, Florence, Siena, Venice, Turin, and Rural Italy
Academic Appointment
1988 - 2017 Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL
Emeritus Faculty 2017
Department Head 93 - 95
Exhibition
2019 - 2023
Open Studio: Utica, NY
2020
The Center: Utica, NY
2018
Admired and Inspired: The Other Side, Utica, NY
The Book Jam: Handshake City, Utica, NY
Significant Souls: Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY
2017
Significant Souls: Open Studio Show, Sarasota, FL
1988 - 2016
Annual Faculty Exhibit: Selby Gallery, RCAD, Sarasota, FL
2014
We Tell Stories: 30th Anniversary SVA Alumni Exhibition, SVA Chelsea Gallery New York, NY
2013
Significant Souls: inspired by Howard Zinn’s, A People’s History of the US, Art Rage, Syracuse NY
Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation, Fayetteville, NY
2011
Significant Souls: Unspoken Conference, MV Resource Center for Refugees, Utica, NY
Significant Souls, Utica College, Utica, NY
2010
Significant Souls, Art Center Sarasota, FL
2009
While I Was Away: Richard and Barbara Basch Gallery, RCAD, Sarasota, FL
2008
Social Justice Conference: In collaboration with Howard Zinn
The Anderson Center, SUNY Binghamton, Binghamton, NY
11 West Park Row: Work in Progress, Paintings, Prints, Poetry, Clinton, NY
Bipartisan: Invitational, Art Center of Sarasota, Sarasota, FL
2006
The Day I Opened My Eyes: Backlot, Sarasota, FL
2005
Under the Special Events Radar: New College, Sarasota, FL
Sarasota Series: Selby Gallery, Sarasota, FL
Embracing Our Differences: Florida Holocaust Museum, invitational installation, Sarasota, FL
Digital Three: Sarasota, FL
2004
Tear Sheet: School of Visual Arts Alumni, Sang-Myung University, Seoul, South Korea
Visual Arts Museum, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
A People’s Exhibit: University Lecture Series in association with Dr. Howard Zinn lecture, Special Events Center, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Multiple Visions V: The History of Artmaking in Sarasota, Selby Gallery, Sarasota, FL
2003
The Magazine Rack: Visual Arts Museum, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2002
Inform-Nation: Do No Harm, New College, Sarasota, FL 2000; RCAD, Sarasota, FL
2001
Inform-Nation: Anti-War Exhibit, RCAD, Sarasota, FL 2001, New College, Sarasota, FL
2000
Illustration 42: Society of Illustrators, New York, NY
Fine Arts Faculty Exhibit: Drawing Installation, Selby Gallery, RCAD, Sarasota, FL
1999
Myth and Magic: Solo Exhibit, Munson Williams Proctor Institute, School of Art, Utica, NY
Words and Art: Exhibition Series at the Selby Library, Sarasota, FL
1998
The Studio Show: Process Exhibition, Whitesboro, NY
1996
Illustrators Only Awards Show: The Visual Club, New York, NY
1994
Eckerd College Invitational Exhibit: Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL
1992
Stations: Historic Crocker Church, Sarasota, FL
1990
Patrick Fiore: Italian Cultural Center and Museum, Utica, NY
Private Visions: Stations, Visual Arts Museum, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
1987
The Emajha Nation: Visual Arts Museum, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
1986
Society of Publication Designers Portfolio Show: Mussavi Art Center, New York, NY
Visual Reporting: Visual Arts Gallery, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Visual Journalist: Visual Arts Gallery, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Publishing
L.A. Review of Books, The Washington Post, New York Times Newspapers, Sarasota Herald Tribune, Playboy Magazine, Scholastic Magazine, Publisher's Weekly, The New Physician, American Journal Of Nursing, Sylvia Porter Magazine, American Diabetes Forecast, Twilight Zone Magazine, Sarasota Magazine, Sarasota Arts Review, HR Magazine, National Review, Small Press Book Review, Harper and Row, Viking Penguin, Dodd Mead, Dell Books, Request Media, Davis Publishing, Rockport Publishing, Illustrators 42, Allworth Press, Poets Against War, Step By Step Magazine, Print Magazine, Tampa Art Directors Club, Free Inquiry Magazine, Golden Artist Colors, Inc.
Collections
Gatwech Noriar, Gambela, Ethiopia 2024
City of Utica, 2022
The Center, Utica, NY 2020
Robert Clemente, Whitesboro, NY 2016
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Foundation, Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner, Fayetteville, NY 2011
Marco Della Santi, Rome, Italy 2009
Munson/Pratt School of Art, Utica, NY 2008
Sacco and Vanzetti Commemorative Society, Boston, MA 2008
Bishop Nevins Academy, Sarasota, FL 2006
The Wurlitzer Family, Sarasota, FL 2004
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Moraca, Sarasota, FL 2003
Elizabeth Hancock, Etowah, NC 1998
The Cathedral of the Madeleine, Salt Lake City, Utah 1993
China Moon Productions, Lakeland, FL, 1992
St. Martha's Parish Chapel, Sarasota, FL,1992
Porsche Audi Automobiles, Hewlitt, NY, 1986
Honors
The CNY Arts Individual Artist Grant, Syracuse, NY 2020
Open Spaces Sacred Places, Utica, NY 2012
Sabbatical: RCAD, Sarasota, FL 2012, 2005, and 1998
Poetry.com, Editor’s Choice Award 2008
Society of Illustrators, Illustrators 42, New York, NY 1999
Professional Development Grant: Published Journal, Positive Identity, RCAD, Sarasota, FL, 1997
Portrait Inspirations, Rockport Publishers, Rockport, Mass. 1997
The Best of Acrylic Painting, Rockport Publishers, Rockport, MA. 1997, 1996
Communication Arts Magazine, Palo Alto, CA, Illustration Annual 1990
Professional Development Grant: RCAD, Sarasota, FL, Travel and Exhibition Award1988,1990
Paula Rhodes Memorial Prize: Thesis Award, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, MFA 1987
First Prize, Annual Student Competition, Playboy Magazine: Chicago, IL, 1987
Graduate Study Scholarship: Master of Fine Arts, SVA, New York, NY, 1985-1987
Marion Jones Award: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 1981-1982
Graduation Honors: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 1982
Community Engagement
The Art Effect, Poughkeepsie, NY; Seasons Mural, Utica, NY; Weaving a Mural of Refugee Artists, The Center, Utica, NY; The Matilda Gage Foundation, Fayetteville, NY; S.U.N.Y. Buffalo, Buffalo, NY; Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD; Munson Williams Proctor Institute School of Art, Utica, NY; Golden Artist Colors, New Berlin, NY; Pratt at MWPI, Utica, NY; Voices of Resistance, Moments of Compassion, Sarasota, FL; Rebuilding Pride & Purpose Through the Arts, RCAD, Sarasota, FL.; Censorship & Public Funding for the Arts, RCAD, Sarasota, FL; Moderator: Illustration, The Shifting Paradigm, with Tom Allen, Alan E. Cober, and Regan Dunnick, RCAD, Sarasota, FL; Society of Illustrators, Student Portfolio Review, New York, NY; Syracuse University, Visiting Critic, Syracuse, NY; Best of RCAD Student Exhibition, Student Artist Club, RCAD, Sarasota, FL; Methodology Lecture, RCAD, Sarasota, FL; Annual Faculty Exhibition, Artist Lecture, Sarasota, FL; Guest Artist and Presentation, Documented Use of Experimental Open Acrylics, Golden Artist Colors, New Berlin, NY., Green The Primary Color, Art Center Sarasota, Sarasota, FL.; Honoring Howard Zinn, New College, Sarasota, FL; Artists, Curators and Jurors, Exhibit Tour, Art Center Sarasota, FL.; One World Garden Design Charette, Utica ,NY; I Have a Dreamscape Design Charette, Utica, NY; Unspoken Human Rights Festival, Utica, NY.
Press
Observer Dispatch, WKTV, Seasons Mural, Utica, NY, 2022
The Center, Weaving a Mural of Refugee Artists, Utica, 2020
Syracuse New Times, The People’s Art, Syracuse, NY 2013
WSYR, Bridge Street, Syracuse, NY 2013
L.A. Review of Books, 2012
Just Paint / Golden Artist Colors, Inc., with Mark Golden, New Berlin, NY 2008
Mohawk Valley Living, Clinton, NY 2008
Sarasota Herald Tribune, Sarasota, FL, 1999
Observer Dispatch, Utica, NY, 1999
Standard-Examiner, Ogden, Utah, 1993
Intermountain Catholic, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1999
Sarasota Arts Review, Sarasota, FL, 1993
The Catholic Sun, Syracuse, NY, 1993
Step By Step Graphics Magazine, Peoria, IL, From Flat Art to Moving Pictures, 1987