Art Education
1982, A.A.S., Summa cum Laude, in Fashion Illustration, The Fashion Institute of Technology, www.fitnyc.edu.
1982-1984, The National Academy of Design, www.nationalacademy.org, studied painting with Nelson Shanks and his mentor Henry Hensche, and was class monitor for Serge Hollerbach and Daniel Dickerson at the Academy
1982-1984, The Art Students League, www.theartstudentsleague.org , studied painting with Isaac Soyer, Richard Goetz, Charles Pfahl and John Howard Sanden among others
1985, The Chautauqua Institution, www.ciweb.org/school-of-art , studied watercolour
2003-2004, The Art Students League , studied sculpture with Seiji Saito and Lorrie Goulet.
2007, Mold-making in Paris with master mouleur Sebastien Nobile
2011, Carving and working with the pointing machine with Enrico Galeotti in Pietrasanta, Italy
2012, Open Stone Symposium, The Carving Studio and Sculpture Center, West Rutland, Vt.