FORMAL EDUCATION
Master of Arts Degree, Creative Writing and Interarts, McGregor School of Antioch Univ., Yellow Springs, OH, 1991-93. Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology, (Minor in Art and Philosophy), Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, 1970-72. Undergraduate, Major in Art and Philosophy, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL.. Graduate Poetry Workshop with David Kirby, Guy McKenzie Poetry Chair, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 1987. Adult Education Master's Degree Program (Sixty-two Hours): Ohio State University (Forty-seven Hours), Columbus, OH, 1978-80 and University of Georgia (Fifteen Hours), Athens, GA, 1978. |
FELLOWSHIPS AND RESIDENCIESAssociate Artist at The Atlantic Center for the Arts, Master Artists: Visual Artists Pat Steir and Eve Ascheim, New Smyrna Beach, FL, 1998. Associate Artist at The Atlantic Center for the Arts, Master Artists: Poet Diane Ackerman and Visual Artist Carolee Schneemann, New Smyrna Beach, FL, 1988. Associate Artist at The Atlantic Center for the Arts, Master Artists: Poet Ron Bayes and Visual Artist Terry Allen, New Smyrna Beach, FL, 1987. Associate Artist at The Atlantic Center for the Arts, Master Artist: Poet Maxine Kumin, New Smyrna Beach, FL, 1984. |
ILLUSTRATED TALKS AND READINGS
Below are included a few of the lectures I’ve given through Create!, the Arts Council, Crescent City Library, and the City of Palatka (Our Town NEA grant).
Future talk in February: Contemporary Black Sculptors including Yinka Shonibare (England), Martin Puryear (USA), Barbara Chase-Riboud (France), El Anatsui (Ghana), Kara Walker (USA), and Mary Sibande (South Africa) to be held at Putnam County Library, Palatka, FL, forth-coming in February, 2016. Poetry Walks: Co-led with Charlotte M. Porter a sunrise poetry walk for the Bartram Conference. St. Johns Riverfront Park, stopping to read from Coleridge, Wordsworth, Bartram, Harriet Beecher Stowe and others, Palatka, FL, October, 18, 2015. Libraries: Gave talk on Special Collections for example illuminated manuscripts, maps, and architecture: Library of Congress, E. Gene Smith Library, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, University Groningen, British Library, Peabody Library, Morgan Library, Beinecke Library, Harold Washington, and others. Crescent City Library, Crescent City, FL, November, 12, 2014. Art in Public Places II: Sculpture Parks: Storm King, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Gibbs Farm, Central Park, Hirshoren Museum, Botero Plaza with work by Mel Chin, Sophie Ryder, Beverly Pepper, Yinka Shonibare. Promoting Community Awareness for the Our Town: Art Works, National Endowment for the Arts initiative, Larimer Arts Center, Palatka, FL, December 7, 2013. African-American Sculpture: First Half of the 20th Century with special emphasis on Harlem Renaissance Sculptors: Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, Sargent Claude Johnson, Richmond Barthé, Selma Burke, Augusta Fells Savage, Elizabeth Catlett, Crescent City Library, Crescent City, FL. April14, 2012. Art in Public Places I: Contemporary Sculpture: Louise Bourgeois, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, David Nash, Anish Kapoor, Alison Saar, Jaume Plensa and Maya Lin. Promoting Community Awareness for Our Town: Art Works, National Endowment for the Arts initiative, Larimer Arts Center, Palatka, FL, December 8, 2012. Eco Arts: Five Approaches (Appreciators, Meditators, Recyclers, Activists, and Crafters). Included work by Hoefnagel, Ruysch, Monet, Turner, Butcher, Steir, Smithson, Goldsworthy, Lin, Gaudi, Nevelson, Chamberlain, Sze, Beuys, Coe, Anatsui and others, sponsored by Create! and Arts Council of Greater Palatka. Larimer Arts Center, Palatka, FL, December 4, 2010. Wet Talks: Part of Margaret Tolbert’s Aquiferious Project. Read excerpts from my long-poem “How to Talk to A River” (a string of morphemes and purls), Thomas Center, Gainesville, FL, January 6, 2016. Poetry Reading with Selections from my West View Walks. Moving throughout the historic cemetery stopping at places that evoked memoir-poems, Palatka, FL, April 26, 2014. |