![]() Kakegawa, Japan: Eugene/ Kakegawa Sister City Association annual delegation activities included ceremonial presentation gift of Padgett woodblock print “Tokaido series: Makino Iron Factory, Kakegawa” to the Mayor of Kakegawa City, opportunities to display prints, give public slide presentation, regional travel to further document the historic Tokaido, homestays with Japanese families, ten days 1996. Watercolor painting on location, photography, sightseeing with family. Great Britain (England, Scotland), Normandy, France: taught Oregon community college students, at the University of London, for the Oregon Consortium of Community Colleges for International Study day trips to Stonehenge and Salisbury, Brighton, Henry Moore’s estate, private weekend travel to Dover, Bristol, Winsor, Scotland, two and a half months Spring term 2004 additional three weeks’ travel to Paris, Normandy to visit areas where Monet painted, Monet’s estate at Giverny, Southern France and the French Alps. ![]() Photography and research for woodblock prints, professional contacts three weeks 2006. Traveled to Kyoto to meet with Richard Steiner, founder/President of the Kyoto International Woodprint Association, then to Toyoma & Takaoka to visit friends, day trips to Kanazawa, Takayama. Italy: Venice, Ravenna, Faenza, Florence, Rome, Tivoli, Maratea, Sorrento, Capri, Pompeii and Herculaneum, Naples three weeks exploring by car with family, visiting historic sites, museums, sightseeing, watercolor painting and photography, 2009.īig Island of Hawaii: watercolor painting on location, photography, professional contacts, sightseeing with family, sixteen days, 2008.Ĭentral Japan: Karuizawa, Yokohama, Nikko, Matsumoto, Obuse - traveled/ documented historic highways (Tokaido thru Hodogaya, Kanagawa, private walking tour with Patrick Carey author of book Rediscovering the Old Tokaido: In the Footsteps of Hiroshige), by train to sections of the Nakasendo / Kisokaido highway (Karuizawa to Nagoya)- traveled to Nikko to see the great shrines to the Tokugawa Shogunate, to Obuse, the town where Hokusai lived out his last years. After delegation visit to Omachi, I traveled independently through Central Japan, photographically documenting Japan’s historic highway, the Kisokaido., as represented in the famous series of woodblock prints by Hiroshige and Eisen, the “Sixty-nine Stages of the Kisokaido”, 2009. 1984,1983.ĪRT TRAVEL ABROAD: Kuaii, Hawaii: watercolor painting and photography on location, sightweeing with family, one week 2014Ĭentral Japan: member of delegation of nine artists representing Mendocino, California to Sister City, Miasa/ Omachi participation (woodblock prints) in art exhibit of Mendocino artists’ work in Omachi, five-day homestay with Japanese family including sightseeing travel in area with group. ![]() These two educational visits to Japan were focal points of study, within a two years’ leave of absence from employment at Rogue Community College, to pursue sabbatical experience as a full-time professional artist. Day trip to the ancient capital of Kamakura 1983. Japanese woodblock printmaking -one month intensive study at the Yoshida Hanga Academy, Tokyo, Japan (1983), during which time I studied under Toshi Yoshida, his son Tsukasa, and the printers working in the studio. SABBATICAL STUDIES : Japan's Tokaido-two months bicycle camping in Japan along the famous highway between Tokyo (formerly Edo) and Kyoto, documenting (photography) historic sites depicted in the "53 Stations of the Tokaido" print series of Ando Hiroshige (1832) and the 20th Century artist Jun’Ichiro Sekino 1984. Workshops with Dan Weldon (Solarplate intaglio printmaking), Barbara Mason (Solarplate intaglio printmaking), Keith Howard (Imag-On non-toxic intaglio printmaking), Michael Edge (bronze patination), Welton Rotz (Italian marble carving), Akira Kurosaki (Japanese woodblock printmaking), Oregon School of Design (architecture & city renewal, team study of Portland’s “Northwest Triangle”, later known as “the Pearl”, culminating in proposals to property owners with recommendations for urban development), Nelson Sandgren (watercolor painting), Victor Morejohn (sculpture), Ted Goerschner (oil painting), Millard Sheets (watercolor painting), Robert McClain (Japanese woodblock printmaking), international bronze casting conferences /workshops (Albuquerque, Chicago, Boulder, Kalamazoo, Lawrence), Penland School of Crafts (bronze casting of sculpture: assistantship to John Acorn F.A.-majored in sculpture), 1965-‘69 Clemson University (architecture), 1963-‘65 Grants Pass, Oregon 97527 phone: Florida State University (B.F.A., M.
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