He received a BFA from the Ringling College of Art & Design and a BFA & MFA from the
University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He has served in the North Carolina Visiting
Artist Program as Artist-in-Residence at Blue Ridge Community College in Flat
Rock, NC and at Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro, NC and as Artist-in-
Residence in Camden, SC. In 2000 he served as Tennessee’s Millennium Artist-in-
Residence for “Artists & Communities: America Creates for the Millennium.”