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(This page is still under construction)
I teach Introductory and Intermediate painting, and Advanced Studio. I came to art self-taught, and I look at "art teaching" as a somewhat misnamed business. Rather than "teach art," I think we teachers can provide the things hard to provide yourself when you are a student, a structured approach to the handling of materials and eventually concepts, historical reference, and an example of someone who is amazed everyday by what painting can be. The rock bottom experience of art making is seeing, thinking and feeling, most of the time that order. The discipline of these practices can be taught; the "art" depends on the student.
My MA is in classics from Stanford University, and my MFA is in Painting from Indiana University. There is a mix of philosophy and literature thrown in and these influences find their way into the classroom. I've been teaching at Mount Holyoke College since 1976, show regularly in New York City at First Street Gallery and elsewhere, and I think that art, in some form, ought to be deep at the heart of all our education.