Selected Awards
2009 Lincoln Academy Award, Springfield, Illinois <link>
2009 Faculty Enrichment Grant, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois
2009 Faculty Enrichment Grant, Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2003 Philbrook Museum of Art, museum purchase,
Tulsa, Oklahoma
2002 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Grant, State
of Illinois, Springfield, Illinois
1993, '91, '89 ”West Art and
the Law”, purchase, West Publishing, St. Paul, Minnesota
1987 “Illinois
'87, Small Painting Exhibition”, purchase, Western Illinois University,
Macomb, Illinois
1984 “Columbus Art League Exhibition”,
award Concourse Gallery Upper Arlington, Ohio
1983 Ford Foundation
Grant, Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio Graduate Teaching Associate,
Ohio State
University Columbus, Ohio
1982 “National Prints and
Drawing '82”, award, Westchester State College, Westchester,
Pennsylvania
1982 Graduate Teaching Associate,
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Public Collections
Union League Club, Chicago, Illinois
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, Illinois
Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Fidelity, Charlotte, North Carolina
Republican Governors Association, Washington, D.C.
Allston & Bird,
Washington, D.C.
Corboy, Demetrio, and Clifford, Chicago, Illinois
Poco
Petroleum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Burnett, Duckworth, and Palmer, Calgary,
Alberta, Canada
Evans, Martin, and Wilson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Metropolitian
Life Insurance Company, New York, New York
American Telephone and Telegraph
Company, Chicago, Illinois
Prudential Insurance Company, Newark, New
Jersey
Arthur Anderson and Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Federal Home
Loan Mortgage Company, Chicago, Illinois
G.D. Searle Company, Westchester,
New York
Schiff, Gorman, and Krkljes, New York, New York
Western Illinois
University, Macomb, Illinois
University of Illinois, Illini Union, Urbana,
Illinois
Jupiter Corporation, Chicago, Illinois
Atlantic Richfield Corporation,
Chicago, Illinois
Education
M.F.A. Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio June 1984
B.F.A.
University of Illinois Urbana, Illinois May 1981
Teaching Experience
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Adjunct Associate Professor, Chicago,
Illinois, Professor, September 2005-present, courses:
Advanced Typography and Introduction to Visual Communications
Illinois
Institute of Art, Professor, Chicago, Illinois, January 1986-present, courses: 2-D,
and 3-D Foundation Design, Color, Typography, Corporate Identity, and
Portfolio
Ohio State University, Department of Art, Columbus, Ohio, January
1983- June 1984, courses: Art 290 & 190, Drawing, painting, 2-D,
3-D design, color, creative process
Ohio State University, Department
of Art, Columbus, Ohio, Graduate Teaching Associate, September 1982 January
1983, assisted and taught, 2-D Design, Drawing
Tutorials
North Shore Art League, Winnetka, Illinois, Drawing & Problems of Representation, January 1986-April 1986 19th Century Hudson River School Perspectives- drawing and painting, Columbus, Ohio, June 1985- August 1985,
Lectures
Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, “Mysterious Island," March 5, 2010
Union League Club, Chicago, Illinois, “The Lincoln Project," June 17, 2009
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum, Springfield, Illinois, “The Lincoln Project," February 6, 2009
Merwin and Wakeley Galleries, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois, “American Inheritance," November, 13, 2007
University of Wisconsin,Eau Claire, “Cross Cultural Perspective of Visual Communication, presentation topic: Native America: Truth and Imagery”, April 20-21, 2007
Perimeter
Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, “Improvisation”, February 2,
2006 Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, “A Search for Heroes,
Lincoln and the Illinois Landscape”, March 29, & April 3, 2003
Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, “Between Heaven and Earth”,
December 7, 2000 Newberry Library, Map Society, Chicago, Illinois, “Tlon,
Uqbar, Orbis Tertius: Taking Measure Across Chicago”, March 18,
1999
Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago, Illinois, Faculty Training Workshop,
teaching strategies, July 10, 1997
Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago,
Illinois, Quantitative Mathematics course, March 11, 1997
Peter Miller
Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, “Landscape and Memory”, October
11 & 18, 1996
Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, “Mythopoeia,
An American Portrait”, August 1, 1996
Northwestern University,
Evanston, Illinois, Advanced Painting course, February 22, 1994
Deson-Saunders
Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, October 21, 1993
Deson-Saunders Gallery,
Chicago, Illinois, April 16 & 18, 1992
Objects Gallery, Chicago,
Illinois, April 19, 1988
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, Art 190, “Native & American
Topics”, April 16 & 18, 1984
Ohio State University, Columbus,
Ohio, CS 102, Religious Themes in Literature, “Native & American
Topics”, November 22, 1983