Autumn colors on Hampshire College campus During the week of October 19 to 23, 2015, I worked with over sixty Hampshire College students from the Innovations for Change: Problem-Solving for the Future and the Teaching Art to Children courses to create a collaborative collage. It measured four by eight feet, and adorned a wall of the Hampshire College Farm barn over the weekend of October 24 and 25–the culmination of the college’s Family and Friends week.

I am looking forward to working with students at Hampshire College in Massachusetts in October. As a visiting artist, I will work with students to draw and paint local plants and animals as part of the Sustainability course which is co-taught by professors in the sciences, and an artist. The focal point of our final product, a large collaborative painting, destined, I hope, for a new campus building, will be a tree on campus known

While I have done hundreds of residencies as an Artist-in-Residence with the New Mexico Arts Commission, VSA New Mexico and Florida and the Virginia Commission for the Arts, working with people of all ages and abilities, in institutions ranging from elementary schools to colleges to Navajo reservations, and even prisons on occasion, some of my most memorable residencies were collaborations with Linda Piper. Linda Piper, Tampa, 2014 Linda and I worked as Artists-in-Residence in New

In the fall of 2009 I worked, with the assistance of a local artist, Michelle Stone, on a project for the Greater Palm River Community Development Corporation whose mission is to build a better community by investing in children and families. Together with several adults and teens with whom we were to work, Michelle and I attended a performance of South African playwright Athol Fugard’s”My Children! My Africa!” at a Tampa theater. For many this was

I wrote this piece about the new documentary film Miriam Beerman: Expressing the Chaos, with the help of my assistant, Amanda Staunko, and the film maker, Jonathan Gruber. I met Miriam Beerman in the late 1990s when I was employed as an administrator at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, an artist retreat nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains where visual artists, writers, composers, and choreographers come to work without the interruptions