Medium: Vintage Paper

Size: 30″ x 40″

Year: 2009

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   $ 1200

-Tutored in sculpture by Marshall Fredricks, sculptor, in mid 1960s
-BFA, Fine Arts and Interior Architecture, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.
-Studied with Detroit notables, such as John Hillberry, Architect and Alden Smith, sculptor,
Robert Wilbert and Pat Quinlan, Painters.
-Historic, Preservation Wayne project, Detroit, Mi. An early program towards preserving historical buildings in Detroit’s inner city.
Detroit based artist, affiliated with the early ‘Cass Corridor’ school of art in the early 1970s.
-Co founder of ‘The Artist Guild of Detroit’, 1972, an experimental coop gallery featuring the early urban contemporary art scene in Detroit, MI.
-Received Beautification Award from city of Detroit for urban design project.
-Member of Detroit Scarab Club, arts league 1973.
-University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, graduate studies, 1976.
-Minnesota Museum of Art , Award recipient for Drawings USA exhibition.
-Studies at Project Arcosanti in Arizona with focus on alternative living design.
-Studies in decorative arts, Florence and Rome, Italy.

Consultant/Artist/designer for several development firms;
-Pine Knob Music Theater and Country Club, Clarkston, Mi.
-The Hotel Group, Southfield, Mi
-Margoulis mall development, W. Bloomfield, Mi
-Oakland County Development, Project Main Street, MI, rural town and village development and consultation.
-Early design development of the commercially successful City of Royal Oak, Michigan.
-Clarkston Community Center and Cultural Arts Program director and vice president.
-Pontiac and Independence Township Vocational/Technical centers renovation
-Deguilio Kitchens,Birmingham, Mi., consultant and applied arts for high end residential market.

Select Design Projects:
Mark Ridleys Comedy Castle Royal Oak, Mi …City beautification award
Lotus Imports, Royal Oak, MI…….City beautification award
Arianna Gallery, Royal Oak, Mi……City beautification award
CK Diggs, Rochester Hills, Mi
East/West Futon, Royal Oak Mi
French Gourmet, Ferndale, Mi
Stamping Grounds, Royal Oak, Mi
Falcon club AKA motor lounge, Hamtramick, Mi
Star Bakery, Huntington woods, Mi
The Shirt Box, W Bloomfield, MI
Postique film studios, Corporate offices, Detroit Mi
Pearl City, Rochester, Mi
Capelli Spa, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Iroquios club, Bloomfield Hills, Mi
Charlies Restaurants, six restaurant locations in Detroit area
Miramar, W. Bloomfield hills,Mi
Manuels, W. Bloomfield Hills,Mi
Medallions, W. Bloomfield Hills, Mi
Paramount Hotel, Dallas, Texas
St. Regis Hotel, Detroit, Mi.
Ocean Inn, Palm Beach, Fla
Beach Club, Marco Island, Fla
Ramada Inn, Baltimore, Md.
The Hotel Group corporate offices. Newport Beach, Ca.
Project developer for Bitterbush estates, Clarkston ,Mi. an exclusive 300 acre residential development

25 year career in exclusive residential Design and applied arts throughout the country