BFA Pratt Institute,MFA Cranbrook Academy of Art. Teaching positions: R.I. School of Design, Brown University, University of Minnesota, Dartmouth College,"Guest Critic" @ Vermont Studio Center 1991 - 2013. Taught @Western New England University since 2004. Lectured at Instituto de Belles Artes, (Medellin, Colombia);Humboldt State U. (CA); The New York Studio School, Institute for American Universities in Aix-en-Provence, (France), and have traveled through the U.S.I.A. to Malta and Honduras to teach at the universities: paintings exhibited through the Art-in-Embassies Program in D.C. in Africa and Guatemala, and Caracas, also:Divinity Center at Yale University, Bowery Gallery in NYC, Hillyer Gallery at Smith College, the Fine Arts Center's ‘The Contemporary Art Museum” at the University of Massachusetts, Hood Museum at Dartmouth College, Fine Arts Center, Provincetown, MA. the Huntington Museum, Windsor, CT. Also; "The Painting Center,"NYC, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Hopper House Museum, Nyack, NY., 2014 solo shows @ The French Cultural Center, Boston & @ The Aidron Duckworth Museum, NH., Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA., Collections: Cedars-Sinai, (Los Angeles), Hale and Dorr Law Firm, (Boston), Bank of Boston, Johnson and Johnson, (N.J.), Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, (N.M.), the Burnham Institute, (CA.), Veridex, (NJ), Mead Art Museum@Amherst College, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Childrens’ Hospital, Nataxis Global Asset Management, Boston, Thompson Financial Management, (Northampton, MA.), Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, CA. I have three times received the Pollock-Krasner Grant Award, a Kittredge Fund Grant from Harvard University. Taught painting @American University, (D.C.). in Umbria, Italy, lectured The New York Studio School, taught a “Drawing Marathon;” ‘cultural ambassador,’ (through the International Residency Program ‘at The Augusta Savage Gallery at UMass), South Africa , a recipient of Puffin Foundation Grant to work w/prisoners, George Sugarman Foundation Grant Award, Berkshire Taconic Artists Resource Trust, Artists’ Fellowship, NYC three times, Individual Artist Grant, Gottlieb Foundation, The Haven Foundation Award, Maine, twice, and a Foundation for Contemporary Art Emergency Grant, NYC.