I hold BA and MFA degrees in Sculpture from Antioch College and the University of Oregon. Over time, I acquired the skills that I use making kinetic sculpture and unique musical instruments. I trained as a cabinetmaker making custom hardwood furniture. I learned blacksmithing and reconstructed timber frame barns. For years my day job was as a steel fabricator working on structural steel, cranes, machinery and pressure vessels. I went back to school and eventually received a degree in mechanical engineering. With that degree, I spent the next twenty years on design and development of color printers at Tektronix and Xerox. Early retirement made it possible form me to work full time on sculpture and instrument building.

 

Sculptor & luthier, Portland, Oregon, 2006 to present

Mechanical engineer: design and development of color printers, for Tektronix and Xerox, Wilsonville, OR 1984-2006

BSME, Portland State University, Portland, OR, 1984

Steel fabricator and engineering student, Oregon, 1979-84

Blacksmithing and timber frame construction, Harrisville, NH,1975-78

Member, Sculptor’s Workshop, Summerville, MA, 1974

MFA, Sculpture, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 1973

BA, Sculpture, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH, 1971

Artist in residence, ACT Workshop, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, 1970