Artist, Independent Filmmaker Photographer, Educator, Media Consultant
MFA The School of the Art Institute of Chicago 1984
MA. ED. Loyola University of Chicago 1980
BA Roosevelt University
Chicago Community Access Network TV. CAN TV. Certified Independent
Producer 1986-current.
The Illinois Institute of Art – Chicago. Professor – Adjunct digital media
photography 1999-2015
Awards recognition
To act – interact – react is the sequence of life and experiencing the moment. In my photography, as in my videos, in the art I make – the moments in time are captured, compressed and reinvented for the emotional impact. In editing and adding the special effects, emphasis is placed on the viewer to observe a new way of thinking about the issues.
As an artist, I believe it necessary to be ready –
Be ready –
You are now ready – for the experience outside your current frame of reference. Nancy Bechtol
Street artist. activist/defender of free speech, Chris Drew, sold art for $1 to protest the Chicago Peddler’s License since Art is Speech. Charges were changed for audio-recording his own arrest and police, to Class One Felony Eavesdropping with 4-15 years in prison – an historic case. Illinois Eavesdropping Law was ruled unconstitutional! Chris would say,”The fight is never over.” A true story.
USAF veteran intelligence officer reporting on the Russian invasion of Ukraine I am a former Captain in the United States Air Force currently in Ukraine to report on the front lines on the Eastern Front. I am being sponsored by LtCol Rip Rawlings . I previously served in the Afghanistan war and the Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008. Outside of the military I worked for International Rescue Committee in Syrian Refugee camps in Lebanon, Iraq, and Jordan.
“Kuchma‘s bodyguard leaked the tapes where he gave the command to destroy my father. This was also when they kidnapped and decapitated the journalist Georgiy Gongadze in 2000 to silence him. My dad was sentenced to ten years… read
