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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Instructor, Santa Fe Community College, Santa Fe, NM, 2000-2004
• Instructor, Thomas Jefferson Community Center, Arlington, VA, 1996-1999
• Instructor, Genoa School of Arts and Crafts, Genoa, NY, 1991-1992
• Temporary Assistant Professor, College of Design, Iowa State University, 1987-1991.
• Teacher (Part-time), Wheeler School, Providence, RI, 1985
• Teaching Assistant, Rhode Island School of Design, 1984-1985

COLLEGE COURSES TAUGHT

• Two-dimensional Foundations

  • Drawing, elements and principles of design and art appreciation.

• Three-dimensional Foundations

  • Modeling, sculpting, elements and principles of design and visualization.

• Beginning through Advanced Furniture Design

  • Drawing, mechanical drawing, design basics, idea generation, visual self-expression ergonomics and furniture history.

• Business of Woodworking and Art

  • Tax structures, bookkeeping, basic economics, hiring employees, costing, advertising, marketing, press releases, press kits, working with clients, stores and galleries and how to write a business plan.

• Beginning through Advanced Furniture Construction

  • Wood properties, hand tool use, safe and proper machine tool use, joinery (both hand-cut and machine made), and the use of alternative materials such as stone, metal and glass. Also all types of finishing and surface treatment.

• Beginning through Advanced Wood Turning

  • Spindle turning, faceplate turning, design aesthetics and sculpting with the lathe.

• Veneering, Bending and Laminating

  • Construction of bent panels, bent laminations, steam bending, basic veneering, inlay veneering and the manufacture and use of band saw-veneers.

PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS

“Veneering Class”, Prairie Rose Woodworking Studio, Indianola, IA. This two-day workshop taught students with veneering experience how to construct a book match, a four-way and an eight-way match as well as the techniques of inlay and hammer veneering.

“Bending Wood”, Des Moines Woodworkers Club, Des Moines, IA, April, 2007. This demonstration presented wood bending techniques including steam bending, bent lamination and forming plywood using vacuum press.

“Marketing for Woodworking”, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 2007. Seminar for I.S.U. career days gave students tools for learning about the woodworking market and marketing their work.

“Veneering With a Master Craftsman”, The Woodsmith Store, Urbandale, IA, 2006 and 2007. These seminars sought to take the mystery out of veneering by showing audience members who possess a few basic tools how to get started with veneering by making a basic project. More complex processes where also presented to illustrate the many possibilities of veneering.

“Artist Presentation” Furniture Society Annual Conference, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, July 2005. This presentation included a demonstration of the hammer veneering process, veneer inlay and a slide presentation of my work.

“Marketing for Furniture Makers”, Delivered at the Furniture Society Annual Conference, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, June, 2004. This was a hands-on workshop for makers who wished to get the word out about their work. Topics covered included press releases, press kits, mailing lists, advertising and how to get free publicity.

“Developing a Portfolio”, Delivered at the Furniture Society Annual Conference, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, June, 2004. This workshop covered several different types of portfolios and what materials each should contain. Topics covered included types of portfolios, resumes, cover letters, images, and how to find and approach galleries, stores and potential clients.

“How Studio Furniture Pushes the Envelope Between Function and Art”, Delivered at the “Small Wood 2002; Community & Economic Development Opportunities in Small Tree Utilization” conference. This conference was sponsored by the USDA Forest Service and took place in Albuquerque, NM in 2002. This presentation began with a brief history of hand-made furniture in the United States and continued with an examination various recent trends in furniture design, then concluded with an introduction of the work of many studio furniture makers that were working currently at that time.

“Guest Artist/Critic”, The University of Miami, Ohio, 2002. Presentations included history of furniture design, my work over 25 years and concluded with a critique of student work.