Let us turn our faces toward the sun, like the little spaceprobe named Stardust who just terminated yesterday.  They gave it orders to spend its fuel, to burn itself out in a 2.3 minute fin du temps.  To blaze.  And it obeyed, one wants to say dutifully.

Now that it’s spent, the connection to earth lost, the little probe no longer controls the direction of its antennae. Its solar collectors will no longer be turned toward the sun.  Soon it will shut down forever. Or so they say.

Anxious for tales of the rose demanding its due, of pirates beating their chests with righteous indignation, we occasionally remember when we were all still living heroes and angels, the authors to our part in the play. 

Curriculum Vitae

1987-1989 Carnegie Mellon University, College of Fine Arts, Pittsburgh, PA, full-time student, studied with Ada Medina, Susanne Slavick, 

1998 Winter Session, Carnegie Mellon - visiting choreographer program, set design and cast member

1989-1990 New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, New York, NY, full-time student, studied with Graham Nickson, Joe Santori, and Mercedes Matter 

1989 New York Studio School- Juried Drawing Marathon- awarded 1st prize by Hilton Kramer, art critic for The New Criterion

1990 Winter Session, Juilliard School, New York, NY, Composers and Choreographers Forum, Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, set designer and painter

1990-1992 Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art, New York, NY, full-scholarship, studied with Frank Roma, William Bevington, David Diamond, and Dore Ashton

1993 “Arrested at the Turnstile”, 1-person show, Tahoma CA

1997-2000 Pictureband Graphics and Animation, freelance/partnership with Klara Glosova

1997-2001 Hutter-Brock & Co., Chico CA, Art Director

1999-2001 North x Northwest Chico Music Festival - DNA Productions, created posters and announcements

1999-2001 Blue Room Theater199, Chico, CA, set design and painting, posters and announcements

2001-2006 Design Services, El Cerrito, CA/New York, NY, freelance design 

2004-2010 Leonard Gervitz, New York, NY, private painting instruction

2005-2010 Art Student League of NY, New York, NY, classes in anatomy, drawing, painting 

2004-2014 Randa Accessories, Bloomfield, NJ,  VP of Design 

2007 "Shadow Puppets of Doom" Film by Michael McLaughlin, made props, graphics, puppets

2007-2008 NEPO House, Seattle WA, contributing artist

2014-2016 Ricardo Luggage, Seattle, WA, VP of design

2015 NEPO House, Seattle WA, contributing artist

2016-2020 Samsonite, Mansfield, MA, Sr. director of design and development

2017 RISD, Providence, RI, guest speaker-Design Week, Fashion Revolution 

2017 RISD, Providence, RI, guest lecturer-RISD Continuing Education, Product Development Program

2018 & 2019 RISD, Providence, RI, delivered classes on design thinking & UN Sustainable Development Goals

2019 Textile Exchange Conference, Vancouver, Canada, guest speaker, RPET Working Group 

2020-present Clairvoyance Glass Studio, custom leaded glass works, owner

2020-2023 Accelerating Circularity, Director, US Trials 

2020 Home Textiles Today, Sustainability Conference, guest speaker, voted “One to Watch “ 

2021 URI/RITIN, N. Kingston, RI, Sustainability Forum, guest speaker 

2023-present Reishyo Design & Sourcing

Publications: 

2019 Contributor "The Audacity", Sleeping Weazel Productions, winner of the 2019 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Production by a small theater

2020 Contributor "Circular Supply Chain Potential-US-EastCoast", Accelerating Circularity

2022 Contributor "Industry-Aligned Action Plan: Digital ID to Scale Circular Systems",EON in partnership with Accelerating Circularit and Eunomia https://www.eon.xyz/whitepapers-reports/scaling-circular-systems-with-digital-ids, 

2023 Contributor “My So-Called Trash: Evaluating the Recovery Potential of Textiles in New York City Residential Refuse” to REMADE Institute’s book "Technology Innovation for Circular Economy." The paper is based on research studying post-consumer textiles in NYC's municipal solid waste in collaboration with the NYC Department of Sanitation (DSNY), WM, and Sortile. 

Current Volunteer Work:

Bread and Puppet Theater, puppeteer

Alternative Transportation Committee, Norton MA, committee chair

Rotary International, Sharon, MA, incoming club president