Background Info
School Of Visual Arts – Fine Arts – NYC
Apprentice to Joseph Cornell – Flushing NY
Founder of the Artists Action Group – Binghamton NY
Set Design with Bill T Jones & Arnie Zane Dance Company
Profiled in WomanArt Magazine, The Paper, Springfield Union, Berkshire Eagle and more…
Gallery Owner – On Paper – Lenox MA
Instructor of Visual Arts, Creative Writing, Art History, Film, Music
Publisher/Editor – In The Arts
Founder/Owner – Gallery Without Walls – Stockbridge MA
Gallery Owner – Le Petit Musee
Founder – The Museum of Teen Art – Great Barrington MA
Founder – Affordable Art Vending Machines
Producer – Writers of The Berkshires & Beyond – CtsbTV – Lee MA
Founder – Le Petit Musee des Mots
Member/Co-Chair: Great Barrington Cultural Council
President – Board of Directors/The Berkshire Writers Room /Pittsfield MA
Founder – Artists & Writers Alliance Internationale
Member – BerkshireSings / Great Barrington MA
Member – Berkshire Ukulele Band / Great Barrington MA
Founder – Sunday Strummers Ukulele Ensemble / Great Barrington MA
Artist-in-residencies
Millay Colony for The Arts – Austerlitz NY (78)
Dorset Writers Colony – Dorset VT (96 – 07)
Cummington Community for The Arts – Cummington MA (86, 92, 93)
Real Art Ways – Hartford CT (88)
Palenville Interart Colony – Palenville NY (94)
Grants / awards
Northern Berkshire Cultural Council for Performance Art Pieces & In The Arts (86, 89)
Pittsfield Cultural Council for Performance Art Pieces & In The Arts (87, 88)
Great Barrington Cultural Council for Visiting Artist Program (95)
Berkshire Taconic Foundation for The Museum of Teen Art (00)
Puffin Foundation for Le Petit Musee de Mots Poetry Project (05)
Mass Cultural Council Finalist for New Theatre Works (04) & (07)
Puffin Foundation for a Public Poetry Project (07)
Partial list of venues of original Performance Pieces
Clark Art Institute – Williamstown MA
No.Bias – Bennington VT
Newartstudio – Housatonic MA
First Night – Pittsfield MA
Mobius – Boston MA
Front Street Gallery – Housatonic MA
Berkshire Public Theatre – Pittsfield MA
East West Fusion – Sharon CT
Center for The Arts – Northampton MA
Rockwell Museum – Stockbridge MA
Berkshire Artisans – Pittsfield MA
Jamestown Community College
Williams College – Williamstown MA
Berkshire Community College – Pittsfield MA
School of The Arts – Amherst MA
Candlelight Inn – Lenox MA
Camerata Conservatory – Hartford CT
North Adams State College
Bettes Life & Times – Williamstown MA
Warehouse Gallery – Lee MA
CW Post College – Brookville NY
Ward Nasse Gallery – NYC
Partial List of Where Work Has Been Exhibited
AAG Gallery
Albany Center Gallery
Arnot Art Museum
Arts Moderne
Erie Art Museum
Emporium
Gallery 304
Honey Sharp Gallery
Joyce Goldstein Gallery
Kathryn Markel Gallery
Le Petit Musee
Mill Fine Art
Norman Rockwell Museum (installation)
OK Harris Works of Art NYC (solo)
On Paper Gallery
Perth Amboy Gallery
Robinson Center
Spazi Fine Art
St. Francis Gallery
Sienna Art Institute
Time & Space Limited
Tokonoma Gallery
Wild Sage
Partial List of where Poems/Spoken Word Pieces/Flash Fiction Published In:
Imitation Fruit 2009
spokenwar 2009
Berkshire Review 2004, 2005
Chronogram 2009
Poets West 2008
physiognomy in letters 2009
Haiku Journal 2011
The Sound of Poetry Review 2011
The Haiku Foundation 2011
High Coop Journal 2011
marcopoloarts magazine 2011
Lyrical Passion Poetry 2012
Multiverses 2012
3 Line Poetry 2012
Poetry Quarterly 2012
Pyrokinection 2012
Poetry Quarterly 2012
Otis Nebula 2012
Inwood Indiana 2012
Napalm & Novacain 2012
Mindless Muse 2012
Snippets 2012
Haiku Journal 2012
marcopolo arts 2012
The Camel Saloon 2012
Epiphany 2012
Pulitzer Remix Project Participant 2013
The Camel Saloon 2013
Pyrokinection 2013
ITO EN North America New Haiku 2013
Epiphany 2013
Whispers in the Wind 2013
Sharpening of The Pencil 2013
The Band Poetry Company 2013
The Mindless Muse 2013
Chupa Cabra House 2013
Four and Twenty 2013
Insert Coin Here Anthology 2013
Silver Birch Press for the Noir Erasure Poetry Anthology 2013
Four and Twenty – 2013
Slab Literary Magazine 2014
Tendril 2014
50 Haikus 2014
Bare Back Magazine 2014
Camel Saloon 2014
The Fishman Review 2015
Junkyard Kool 2015
Camel Saloon 2015
Without Words Anthology 2018
and more…