Rekindling that Creative Spirit!

Its been relaxing and rewarding weekend. I was a proud Dad this past Friday night at the reception for the Adopt an Artist exhibit sponsored by the Arts Council. Andei has 3 color “Holga” photographs hanging in the show. It was enjoyable for me to watch her in the limelight and hear all the positive [...]

Pray for an Epiphany in the American People

President Obama – AHHHHHHH!!!! Tomorrow is election day and I for one am going to be extremely glad when the damn drama and endless onslaught of political e-mails, commercials and campaigning is over. It seems like this thing has been going on forever and now election day is just about upon us. I know in [...]

Distance Learning Workshop at WCC

I’m presenting a workshop on the various uses of Blogging, Youtube and Itunes in online instruction. I will be blogging this presentation as I go this afternoon. I’ll  also take a few photos and post them as the workshop progresses. This is first in a series of workshops I’ll be giving on this topic in [...]

Learning to SEE as an ArTist and Image Maker

I teach my Photographic Portfolio class every summer and always find myself preaching to my students about developing a personal style in photography and giving them some strategies for developing and nurturing their creative “personal” vision. I also enjoy that I get to go out photographing with them on photographic field trips. One thing that [...]

Book Project is Back on Track!

The Spring semester is quickly coming to a close and in-between getting my final exams ready (among a deluge of other things) I actually carved out some time this weekend to work on my book project. Yes…that book project I was so excited about a few months ago. As usual it stalled due to the [...]

Thoughts on Teaching Art Appreciation and History

I’ve been teaching art appreciation and art history for over twenty years and I must admit I never get tired of the material. Art has so much incredible emotional and intellectual depth to it – the desire to communicate is an integral part of the human condition since those first prehistoric people began expressing themselves [...]

Digital Photography Workshop – After Thoughts

I presented another Digital Photography Workshop in Jacksonville NC yesterday. This time I gave a more advanced presentation to a small group of local photographers. It was a nice surprise to see one of my former Photography graduates Dean Remington show up for my talk. He sure has come a long way with his photography. [...]