I was born in Phoenix Arizona in 1966.  My father was from Brooklyn New York and my mother was from a small farm in Kansas. My childhood was spent in shorts, selling junk I made in front of our house, drawing spaceships, creating clubs I would coerce my friends to join, and melting crayons on the sidewalk.

High school was spent avoiding getting beaten up and avoiding home.  I went to college at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth for a year, and then finished my degree in studio art at Biola University in Los Angeles.  Out of college I worked as a grade school art teacher and was also the assistant curator for the Los Angeles’ city art collection.  I got my MFA at Washington State University in Pullman, and in 1993 I was hired by Grand Canyon University in Phoenix to teach art and chair the department.  I was there for nine years.  In July of 2003, I moved back to the wet and lovely Northwest to take a position within the art faculty at George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon.  I have been here since, teaching students how to make things, living in community and walking to work.

In 1997 I was initiated into men's work and have found myself facilitating and leading men's experiencial work and weekends since.  I have facilitated and been a leader of over fifty experiential men's and women's weekends, including being one of the founders of Deep Water Men, a non-profit community in Oregon.  The power of friendship, brotherhood, and what it is to be a man in the 21st century are vital parts of my life and work.

I have had over twenty-five solo exhibitions from Washington D.C. to Southern California, have participated in over sixty invitational, juried, and group exhibitions, and have done a number of artist residencies from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, to the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland.  I am a tenured faculty member at George Fox University and have taught full time for over 25 years.   I write, blog, have a comedic podcast, and have spoken to groups of twenty to over a thousand folks.

Art for me is an integral part of the human experience and continues to be a place to be authentic and share hope, and the irony and blessings of life in all its beauty and mess.