Education

University of Washington, Seattle. Majored in Zoology and Oriental Art History.
BFA, Pratt Institute (New York City) / Graduated on the President's List, 1976.

Awards

Ford Foundation Grant (NYC, 1976). First Place Award, John Muir International Film and Video Festival (1982). Cine Golden Eagle (1987). Artist Trust GAP Grant (1990). NEA Special Projects Grant (artist in residence, New City Theater, 1993-1994 season). King County Arts Commission Special Projects Grant (1997). US government / BLM Challenge Cost-Share Grant (2001). King County Arts Commission Special Projects Grant (2002).

Multi-media Installations, Projects, and Public Lectures 1987-2002

2001-2002:
Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center. "Tokonoma / Lucida: July" and "Totem / Lucida" transilluminated, digitally realized, Lambda Duratrans artworks as well as a selection of digitally-enhanced giclée prints from large-format photographic landscapes. Included a lecture and question/answer session about the theoretical underpinnings of my single-channel, 24-minute, broadcast-quality program "The Vanishing Shrub-Steppe" ("Video Tokonoma: June") which was presented utilizing large-screen video projection.

Lectures and large screen video presentation of the video program included question/answer sessions focused on its creation and raison d'être. Presented at Central Washington University (2001 and 2002), Shrub-Steppe and Sandhill Crane festivals (Wenatchee, Ellensburg and Othello), and Yakima Valley Audubon Society.

Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival. Presentation of the "Video Tokonoma: June".

1997:
King County Library. The painting "Tokonoma / Lucida (April)" including hundreds of digitally-enhanced details of the painting plus field recordings formed the basis of this two-channel video program. All video and audio field footage was recorded utilizing broadcast-quality gear on locations in wilderness areas of Washington. Funded by a King County Arts Commission Special Projects Grant, this program is in the King County Library system. It represents a small portion of the Tokonoma project which I commenced in 1990.

1990-1995:
Multi-media Projects as Artist-in-Residence, New City Theater and Arts Center. During the 1993-1994 season, I created a new multi-media presentation each month incorporating my paintings, digital artworks and animations, video productions and photographs in a variety of formats. These were exhibited in the lobby/café space during the day and during evening performances (prior to and after each play as well as during intermissions).

I created the video component for many plays, cabaret performances and funding efforts. These included the 1992 world premiere production of An Interest in Strangers. Utilizing a large-screen video monitor, real-time and recorded video imagery, the play examined the presentation and manipulation of "reality" and current events by the television medium. In addition a video archive documenting the visits of important artists (Richard Foreman, Maria Irene Fornes, Theater X, etc.) was also created. Some of this work (e.g. Eddie Goes to Poetry City, Part I) resides in the performance arts library at Lincoln Center, NYC.

1987:
Multi-media Producer / Director / Editor. I collaborated with theater director David Schweitzer, Theatre X and New City Theater in the multi-media production of A History of Sexuality, which toured the United States and Europe. The entire second act exists as an independent entity which I produced, recorded and edited in the broadcast-quality video medium. 29 additional tapes were edited into theatrical video support for the first and third acts. The play was reviewed by important theater publications including American Theater magazine.

Public Art Commissions 1972-1975

Commissioned by Western Washington State College (Bellingham). 42-foot x 18-foot hand-painted mural. Based on one of many modular design systems I had developed, the project also included 36 silk-screened, hanging banners and room dividers. I executed all painting and stencil cutting.

Commissioned by Evergreen State College (Olympia). 60-foot x 10-foot hand-painted mural plus 10 silk-screened room dividers. (Again my modular design system with all work performed by me.)

Commissioned by Master Resources Council, Int'l / Colman Building (Seattle). Silk-screened stained tiles (again using my modular design system) were mounted into a 12-foot x 7-foot mural. Installation by the Kelly-Goodwin Company.

Commissioned by Two, Incorporated (Seattle). One 25-foot x 11-foot mural and one 10-foot x 10-foot mural, both based on my modular design system and hand-painted by myself.

Single-channel Video Art Productions 1982-2002

Titles include Sage Dance, Hollowness, CHO-ON-JI, Switcher Master, Future Primitive, Aborigines at the Shopping Mall, Tozen: Traditional Zen Pottery, Original Crescent City Jazz Band, A Cambodian Dance Festival, Tokugan-ji, Let Us Now Praise Famous Hummingbirds, Sage Country, World Saxophone Quartet, David Murray with Andrew Cyrille, The Vanishing Shrub-Steppe. (The World Sax and David Murray projects were created in collaboration with the Earshot Jazz Festival.)

Percussionist / Composer / Performance Artist 1977-1985

Nobodaddy in the Underworld with poet Steven Weinberg and keyboard artist Paul Dusenbury in Seattle, Joseph Papp's Public Theater with Andrew Cyrille and Friends in New York, The Magic Show with The Mutuel Jazz Ensemble in New York, various loft venues around New York city.

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