1967 -69 - U.S. Army, Honorable Discharge
1970 – B.F.A. University of Utah; Studio Ceramics Award
1971 – M.A. Montana State University
1974 – M.F.A. University of California at Santa Barbara
1973 – Established Peterson Pottery
Wholesale business of cups, teapots, all dinnerware items. To include gallery exhibitions, private collector commissions and Museum Collections (among them the Smithsonian).
1989 – Appointed Brewster Academy Art Teacher (Drawing, Photography and Pottery)
1991 –Appointed Art Chair at Brewster Academy
1991 – Boston Globe National Art Teachers Award
1992 – N.H.A.C.E.S. (New Hampshire Association of Computer Educators Statewide) Top Technology Educators Award
1992 – Boston Globe Ceramics Teacher Award
1994 - Boston Globe Ceramics Teacher Award
1995 - Boston Globe National Art Teachers Award
1995 – Appointed Asst. Director of Technology at Brewster Academy (position held concurrently with Art Chairmanship)
1995 – Appointed Instructor on “Summer Faculty Technology Workshops”
1996 – Appointed as Technology Evaluator for N.A.I.S. (National Association of Independent Schools)
1997 – Recruited by Ridgeville Academy, North Ridge, Ohio as Director of Technology
1999 – Appointed Chairman of O.A.I.S. (Ohio Association of Independent Schools) Technology Group
2001 – Ridgeville Academy Technology Dept. voted Top Technology Dept. in O.A.I.S.
2002 – Recruited as Director of Product Design for Saull Enterprises, Inc. – Vero Beach, Florida
2005 – Recruited as Educational Technology Curriculum Director for Flint Hill School in Oakton, Virginia
2007 – Appointed Instructor of Advanced Digital Media at Christchurch School in Christchurch, Virginia
2009 – Appointed Chair Art Dept. at Christchurch School
2012 – Retired from CCS
2014 – Recruited back to CCS to teach Adv. Art, Digital Media and Portfolio Prep.
2016 – Currently re-retired and producing private portfolio and writing; living in rural Virginia
Portfolio Vitae
Galleries;
“The Following Sea” – Honolulu, Hawaii
“The Egg and Eye” – Los Angeles, California
“L.A. County Museum” – Los Angeles, California
“Roach Gallery” – Bolder, Colorado
“The Smithsonian Museum” – Washington, D.C.
Accounts with;
“The Coffee Bean Stores” – 14 stores in California
“Fraser’s Furniture” – San Francisco, California
“Galleria Ghirardelli” – Ghirardelli Square, S.F., California
Other Professional Accomplishments
1994 – CAD designed new Art Facility for Brewster Academy, and supervised construction
1994 – CAD designed reconstruction of Academy Building to house new Computer Laptop Program, to include the first Computer Laptop Desks for one of the first hardwired High School Classroom Laptop Programs
1995/7 – CAD designer/consultant for Gerry Holmberg Construction Co.,
Wolfeboro, New Hampshire
- Designed and consulted on construction of seven private homes
- Design reconstruction of Moosehead Lake Hotel, Moosehead Lake, Maine
- CAD designed numerous septic systems for Holmberg Construction for County Construction Planning Approvals
- Redesigned Boat Mooring Plans for Brewster Academy
2002/3 – Designed and supervised implementation of total upgrade of Computer Network for Ridgeville Academy – serving a User Base of @ 2000 students and faculty, expanding to include @ 4000 parents and L.R.A. Alumni
2003 – Designed new library and computer labs for L.R.A., to include all network hardwiring
2004 – Consulted and oversaw construction of new library and computer labs
Writing Vitae
2010 – “The Dollar-Table Hammer”; Memoirs of raising six children in rural New Hampshire
2012 – “Boxes of Clay”; Volume Two of Memoirs from New Hampshire
2014 – “Drawing Blind”; How To on learning to quick-sketch in pencil
2016 – “Twelve Roses for Kathy” – A Journey out of the darkness of bipolar disorder on a motorcycle
