Boston, Massachusetts; January 9, 1946

Ashland College; Ashland, Ohio; B.S. 1970
Arizona State University; Tempe, Arizona; M.F.A. 1972
Turley Forge; Santa Fe, New Mexico; Certificate 1987

Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges, 1969
Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Arizona State University ,1971-1972
Nominated for the Governors Award for the Arts, 1987

Studio Artist; Sculpture, Metalsmithing, Bladesmithing 1972 - present

Adjunct Professor, Jewelry; Spokane falls Community College, Spokane, WA

Selection Panel, Arizona Commission on the Arts, Governors Art Award, 1992

Juror; Coconino Center for the Arts, Regeonal Exhibition, Fall 1992

Selection Panel; Artist in Residence Project, Sierra Vista Public Schools, Sierra Vista, Arizona 1991

Panel Member; "The Economic Impact of Arts Events on the Community" South West Arts Conference, Scottsdale, Arizona 1992

Selection Panel Member; Dunlap Avenue Tree Guard Project; Phoenix Arts Commission 1990

Selection Panel Member; Traveling Exhibition Program Arizona Commission on the Arts 1990

Guest Curator, Diverse Directions a Southwest fiber and metals invitational exhibition; Pima Community College, Tucson, Arizona 1989

Judge; World Championship Barbeque Cooking Contest, Memphis International Festival, Memphis, Tennessee 1988

Artist in Residence; Appalachian Center for Crafts, Smithville, Tennessee spring 1988

Professor of Art; Arizona Western College, Yuma , Arizona; Jewelry, 2D Design, Beginning Drawing, Life Drawing, Metalsmithing,Photography and Pit Barbeque 1978-1987

Instructor (part time); Arizona Western College, Yuma, Arizona Sculpture, Jewelry, Drawing 1972-1978

Director; Yuma Symposia Nos. 1-18; Associate Director; Nos. 19-22: 1980 - present The Yuma Symposium is a series of workshops and lectures by artists from across the United States, Mexico and Canada that takes place in Yuma each February.

The following artists have been featured: Helen Shirk, J. Fred Woell, Linda Watson Abbott, Jim Cotter, Lane Coulter, Marcia Lewis, Al Gilmore, Mac McCall, Billie Jean Theide ,Linda Threadgill, Amy Conger, David Davidson, John Hays, Carol Kumata, Pedro Meyer, Victoria Rivers, Linda Ross, Rod Tsukashima, Fred Fenster, Brent Kington,Gary Knoffke, Rachelle Thiewes, Jiggs Pierson, Robert Piepenburg, Dan Martinez, Anders Knutsson, Jack Riely, Fritz Scholder, David Graham, Bob Dawson,Les Lawrence, Bennett Bean, Jim Romberg, Sara Waters, James Watkins, Sharon Church, Leslie Leupp, Jan Brooks-Loyd, Rowina Morales, Dale Wedig, Dorothy Fratt, Joe Doyle, Linda Connor, Jim Stone, Lawrence McFarland, Tom Eckert, Larry Hunter, Rudy Autio, Don Bendel, Joan Hayakawa, Bob Shay, Pat Flynn, Lynne Hull, Rebekah Laskin, Kate Wagle, Jim Wallace, Wendy Maruyama, Jane Gregorius, ColleenHayward, Sam Wilson, Elain O'Neil, Todd Walker, Garry Knox Bennett, Richard Latrobe-Bateman, Bruce Breckenridge Philip Cornelius, Tom Kerrigan, Byron Temple, Phil Baldwin, Joe Cornett, Randy Long, John Marshall, Frank Turley, Lisa Allen, David Cummings, Joan Hall, Marck Klett, Alan Pitcairn, John Cedarquist, Alphonse Mattia, Roseanne Somerson, Robin Hopper, Dick Lehman ,Cynthia Ripley, Julie Connell, Layne Goldsmith, Lee Malerich ,Janet Taylor, Steve Bondi, Tom Joyce, Susan Kingsley, Claire Sanford, Mary Ann Bonjorni, Beatrice Mady, Randy Milhoan, Hap Sakwa, Paul Sasso, Gary Greenberg, Pete Scott, Richard Shaw, Jean Caciedo, Joyce Scott, Clare Verstegen, Thelma Coles, Rico Eastman, Bob Ebendorf, Sandy Zilker, Jamie Bennett, Peter Dean, Rudy Turk, Martha Starwn, Elizabeth Turk, Frank Herrera, Jamie Abbott, Mark Sfirri, Gail Fredell Smith, David Furman, Randy Schmidt, Michael Davis, Betsy Douglas, Karen Pierce, Nancy Lee, Paulette Werger, Philip Fike, Catherine Nash, Paul Roehl, Lisa Lewenz, Bill Burke, Bob Trotman, Randy Schull.

Pima College, Tucson, Arizona, "Knifemaking" 2001
Arrowmont School, Gatlinberg, Tennessee 1992
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts; Deer Isle, Maine 1990
State University of New York at New Paltz 1990
University of Wisconsin; Milwaukee 1989
Pima Community College; Tucson, Arizona 1989
San Francisco State University; San Francisco, California
California College of Arts and Crafts; Oakland, California 1988
Cabrillo College; Aptos, California 1988
Long Beach State University; Long Beach, California 1987
Northern Arizona University; Flagstaff, Arizona 1985
Long Beach City College; Long Beach, California 1985
National College of Goldsmithing; Lahti, Finland 1984
California State University; Sacramento, California 1983
University of Arizona; Tucson, Arizona 1982
Pima Community College; Tucson, Arizona 1979
Arizona Western College; Yuma, Arizona 1971

Arizona Commission on the Arts; Special Projects Grants 1977, 1978,1979
National Endowment for the Arts; Workshop Grants 1974, 75,76
National Endowment for the Arts; Artist in Residence Grant 1972,1973

I have written nine special project grants to the Arizona Commission on the Arts for the Yuma Symposium. All were funded.

City of Phoenix; Phoenix Gran Prix Trophy 1990 - 1993
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Yuma, Arizona 1988
State of Arizona; First Governors' Award for the Arts, Medallion 1980

Pieces that Serve; American Craft Museum; New York, New York 2001 Rare to Well Done; National Ornamental Metal Museum; Memphis, Tennessee 2000

Sun Valley Craft Show; Sun Valley, Idaho 2000 Award, "Best of Metalwork" 2000

The Knife, The Fork, The Spoon: Serving Pieces; SOFA; Yaw Gallery,NY,NY 1999

The American Art Knife; National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis,TN, 1992

Silver Jubilee; John Michael Kohler Center, Kohler, WI 1992

Philadelphia Craft Show; Philadelphia Museum of Art 1991

National Metals Invitational; Galeria Mesa, Mesa, AZ 1990

The Ordinary and the Extraordinary; Tempe Art Center,Tempe, AZ 1990

Smithsonian Craft Show; Smithsonian Institution,Washington, D.C. 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1994; Jurors Choice Award, 1988; Honorable Mention 1990; Award of Excelence 1992

American Craft at The Armory; New York, New York 1990, 1992

The Art of Craft; Harcus Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts 1989

Culinary Art; Del Mano Gallery, Pasadena, California 1988

Non -Traditional Western Art; Anne Bousquett, Ken Holder, Peter Jagoda, Dan Kiacz, Mark Klett, Virginia Van Horn; Virginia Beach Art Center, Virginia Beach, Virginia 1987

Collectors Knives; National Ornamental Metal Museum; Memphis, Tennessee 1987

Arizona Metals Invitational; Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, Arizona 1986

American Bladesmiths; Brookfield Craft Center

Brookfield, Connecticut 1986

The Great West Metal Show; Hans Appenzeller, Arlene Fisch, Chris Smith, Peter Jagoda

Jay Kidwell; Flagstaff, Arizona 1985

Saddle Up; National Ornamental Metal Museum Memphis, Tennessee 1984

Jewelry and Unique Objects; Fine Arts Center of Tempe Tempe, Arizona 1984

Bowling Green National Metal Invitational; Bowling Green State University, BowlingGreen, Ohio 1984

The Cutting Edge; Merrin Gallery, New York, New York 1984

Second International Jewelry Competition; Ornament Magazine

Honorable Mention 1984

Jewelry USA; American Craft Museum, New York, New York 1984

This exhibition toured to the following museums: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Richmond, Virginia Craft and Folk Art Museum; Los Angeles, California Bellevue Museum; Bellevue, Washington Chicago Public Library; Chicago, Illinois Oakland Museum of Art; Oakland, California Hunter Museum of Art; Chattanooga, Tennessee, Bass Museum of Art; Miami Beach, Florida Newport Art Museum; Newport, Rhode Island San Jose Museum of Art; San Jose, California

14 Arizona Metalsmiths; Scottsdale Center for the Arts Scottsdale, Arizona 1983 Heavy Metals; Murry State University, Murry, Kentucky 1983

4th National Jewelry and Small Sculpture Exhibition; Weber State University; Ogden, Utah 1981

Metalsmith '81;

University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas 1981

Copper 2; University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona 1980

Mixed Metaphors; Tucson Museum of Art Tucson, Arizona 1978

Yuma Artists in Residence;

Oregon Arts Council Touring exhibition 1978-1979 12th Southwestern Invitational;

Yuma Art Center Yuma, Arizona 1978 Purchase Award Arizona Biennial;

Tucson Museum of Art Tucson, Arizona 1977 Award Arizona

Instant Projects; R. Baker and B. London Polaroid Corporation, 1987 work illustrated Port Folio Magazine;

Linda McGreavy Review, "Non-Traditional Western Art", January 20, 1987

The Virginia-Pilot and Ledger-Star;Alex Bontemps Review, "Non-Traditional Western Art", January 8, 1987

Custom Knifemaking; Tim McCreight Stackpole Books, 1987 work illustrated Lapidary Journal;

January 2000, Marcia Detwiler Scupin, "Metals Magnet" Museum of California Magazine;

Oakland Museum of Art Review, "Jewelry USA", November/December 1986 Metalsmith;

Betsy Douglas Review, "The Great West Metal Show", Summer 1985

American Craft; Jessie McNab Review "Jewelry USA", January 1985

Ornament; International Jewelry Awards Review, work illustrated, Fall 1984 Diamond News 7 South African Jeweller;

Myra Sagov Review, "Jewelry USA", January 1984 Scottsdale Daily Progress;

Victoria Beaudin Review, "Jewelry and Unique Objects", December 1984 The Toledo Blade;

Review, "Bowling Green National Metal Invitational", October 15, 1984 Metalsmith; Marcia Lewis Review, "The Cutting Edge", Fall 1984 Metalsmith; Linda Norden Review, "Jewelry USA", Fall 1984 Newsday; "Jewelry of the Avant-garde", Sheryl Fitzgerald Review, "Jewelry USA", July 5, 1984 New York Times; "Contemporary Jewelry as Art", Anne-Marie Schrio, Review "Jewelry USA", May 25, 1984 WOR TV; New York, New York Evening News, work illustrated, May 30, 1984 Metalsmith; Joe Young Review, "Arizona Metal", Fall 1983 Scottsdale Daily Progress; Joe Young "There's Craft in Metalworking", March 1983 Artweek; Verna Posever "Art of Structure", December 1978 Phoenix Gazette; Marlin Miller "Inner Man Seen In Sculpture", June 1971 Craft Horizon; Cecil N. McCann Review "Objects USA", June 1971 work illustrated

Arizona State University Museum of Art, Tempe, Arizona
National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, Tennessee
Mr. Ronald Abramson, Washington, D.C.
Mr. Oppi Untracht, Porvoo, Finland
Mr. Bennett Bean, Blairstown, NJ
Mr. Marvin Lipofski, Oakland, CA
Mr. Michael Bondanza, New York, NY
Mr. & Mrs. Paul D. Parkman, Kensington, MD
Mr. J. Fred Woell, New Paltz, NY
Ms. Linda Threadgill, East Troy, WI
Ms. Jan Brooks, Santa Fe, NM
Mr. Larry McMurtry, Washington, D.C.
Mr. Sam Maloof

Society of North American Goldsmiths; Board of Directors 1989 -'93; President Elect 1990-'91; President,1991-'92
American Craft Council
Artist Blacksmiths Association of North America