Education

Post Baccalaureate, Art Center at Night, Art Center College of Art & Design, Pasadena, CA.

Post Baccalaureate, Laguna College of Art & Design, Laguna Beach, CA.

M.F.A., University of Houston, Houston, TX.

B.A, Magna Cum Laude, Queens College, City University of New York, NYC.

Summer Art Program, Sarah Lawrence College, Lacoste, France.

High School of Art & Design, NYC. 

teaching

2005-present      Rio Hondo College, Whittier, CA. Tenured Professor of Drawing & Painting

1995-16              Program Director and Instructor, ArTravel, the Travel Abroad Program of the Brentwood Art Center

1994-04               Brentwood Art Center, School of Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA.  Painting & Drawing Instructor

1995-01               Rio Hondo College, Whittier, CA. Adjunct Instructor, Art Appreciation & Art History

1997-98               Self-Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA.  Instructor, Painting in the Barrio and Life Drawing Coordinator

1989-93               Art Workshops International, Painting Instructor and Artist- in -Residence, Assisi, Italy

1988-89               Mercy College, Art History Instructor, Dobbs Ferry, NY

1975-79               University of Houston, Instructor of Painting and Drawing, Houston, TX.