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Age
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65
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| Gender |
Male
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| Status |
Married
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| Children |
2
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| Religion |
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| Education |
Masters of Fine Arts |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Mixed Media
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Dadaism - (1916 - 1924)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Kurt Schwitters, and Robert Rauschenberg
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| Favorite Work of Art |
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
Seeing the show "The Art of Assemblage" at the San Francisco Museum of Art, when I was in high school. |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
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| Your Personal Biography |
I am a former high school art teacher (33 years in the Mukilteo School District, in Washington State), and I loved my job. I found that the I got at least as much energy back from the students I taught, as i expended in teaching them. It was also wonderful to be working in a subject area in which many students were able to discover new creative abilities; aspects of themselves many of them had never known existed! I continue to substitute teach--'keeping my hand in'--because i still enjoy it (it also helps that substitute teachers don't have to take papers home to grade!). I attended the California College of Arts and Crafts (now California College of the Arts), in the mid-to-late 1960's, and graduated with a BFA, in 1970, and a secondary teaching credential, and an MFA in painting, in 1971. I was inspired yo go to art school by my high school art teacher, Mr. Jack Howard, who had attended CCAC in the 1950's. A pivotal event in my life was when, in my junior year in high school, I went on a field trip to see the exhibit "The Art of Assemblage," at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Seeing, for the first time, collages and assemblages by artists such as Kurt Schwitters, Lee Bontecou, Bruce Conner, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Joseph Cornell, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Ed Keinholz, and others, was an 'awakening' that left me changed, forever. Collage and mixed media (especially the amazing "anti-art" |
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