educational and professional background

education

• Master of Fine Arts in painting and drawing, MFA thesis Participatory Devices in Art, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 1974
• B.S. in Art Education, Missouri Southern State College, Joplin, Missouri, 1970

significant professional experiences

• Artist in Residence at Buena Vista University, Storm Lake, Iowa, February 1997
• Guest Artist and Workshop Leader for the New Masters Annual at the Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia, March 1992
• Yaddo fellowship, Painting residence at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York, Fall 1981
• Chairman, Department of Art, Westmar College, LeMars, Iowa, Spring 1975 through Spring 1983
• Lecturer on current trends in art as part of the Legacy of Modernism series sponsored by the Iowa Humanities Board and the National Endowment for the Humanities, Spring 1981
• Instructor of Painting and Life Drawing at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 1974
• Free-lance architectural rendering, 1974 and 1975
• Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Arkansas, Fall 1972 through spring 1974
• Art instructor for the USD 446 Schools in Independence, Kansas, 1970-1972