A native of Cambridge, MA, I am a graduate of Massachusetts College of Art and Design; class of 1974.

I received a BFA in painting and Illustration.

 

While attending MassArt, I had the benefit of being a student of Prof. Calvin Burnett, Prof. Ron Hayes, and Prof. Charles Demetropoulos.  All were most influential in my early development as a growing artist. Several years later, in 1977, I Joined the Boston Negro Artists Association (later The Boston Afro-American Artists (BAAA)). I had the privilege of being mentored by, associating with, and exhibiting with many talented artists in organization: James E. Guilford Jr, Leon Robinson, and Tyron Geter; just to name a few.

 

Concurrent with my association with BAAA, I became an affiliate artist from 1988 - 1991, with AAMARP (African-American Master Artists-in-Residence Program at Northeastern University); founded by Prof. Dana Chandler, in Boston, MA.

 

The AfricanWinterGallery, founded in 2005, by Laurence Martin Pierce, in Dorchester, MA, was another gathering place and incubator for many talented and creative artists; many with whom I exhibited and worked. 

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In 1977, I earned a Massachusetts teaching certificate from Boston State College and Suffolk University. I was certified as an Art Teacher for all grade levels: K-12. After receiving my certification, I taught art from 1977 through 1991 in various public and semi-private educational settings; in Cambridge and Boston.

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From 1991 through 2018, I served as an Art and Photography teacher (Introduction to Black and White and Digital Photography) at Newton Country Day School; an independent school in Newton MA. While at NCDS, I taught a full range of courses and developed the Art curriculum for both the Middle and Upper School divisions. Also, I served as the Chair of the Visual Arts Department from 2004 until my retirement in 2018.

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