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West Wind Studio PO 383 Bradford, Vermont 05033 802-222-3389 cell/home Education: Northfield Mount Hermon School 1959-1963 Brown University 1963-1967 Rhode Island School of Design 1975-1978 BFA and MFA I am a member of the Oxbow Gallery in Northampton, Massachusetts and the AVA Gallery in Lebanon, New Hampshire.. I am on the board of Vermont North By Hand, a group of regional artists offering a studio tour every October. Also I participate in the statewide Vermont Craft Council Studio Tour on Memorial Day every year. In 2000 I received a painting fellowship and residency at the Fundacion Valparaiso in Mojacar, Spain. My drawings are featured in Bert Dodson’s new book titled “Keys to Drawing with the Imagination”,(2008, North Light Press). It is the sequel to his classic “Keys to Drawing”. Teaching and Administration: 2004- 2008 I was the administrator in charge of the Individual Instruction Program for The Music Department at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. This program involved keeping records and grades for 250 students taking instrumental lessons from 20 different instructors living in the northeast. 2002-2004 I was the high-school visual arts teacher at the American International School of Dhaka, Bangladesh, a K-12 private school of about 650 students. I taught Foundation Art with an emphasis on drawing and painting, Advanced Art and AP Art. I also taught digital photography and digital video. 1994-2002 I was the Art Department Chair at Charles Wright Academy in Tacoma, Washington. There were six visual arts teachers in our department and during my tenure we built the 2 million dollar Brown Center for the Visual Arts. I taught painting and drawing and photography as well as furniture design and construction and directed the exhibits program at the Brown Center. 1975-1978 As a graduate student at Rhode Island School of Design I was granted a teaching fellowship. 1971-1974 I was a member of the Art Department at the New Hampton School in New Hampton, New Hampshire where I created and ran a photography program. During this time I completely renovated an old house in Lyme, New Hampshire and began learning woodwork and building skills. Other Experience and Interests: I am a painter and have regular exhibitions of my work at professional galleries in the northeast. I also sing and play acoustic blues and bossa nova on the guitar and sing in 4 languages. My first CD- Mama Don’t Worry, was released in 1999. A new one- Blues from Bangladesh - was released in 2004, and another, Shades of Blue, with harmonica ace Keith Friedland, in 2007. I have been performing professionally for over twenty years in venues from New York, to Seattle, to New England, Spain and Bangladesh. I play squash and golf and enjoy the rural life in Vermont, close to the land. 1985-1994 I started and ran a woodworking business in Neversink, New York. We designed and made fine quality furniture and cabinets for such clients a Lawrence Rockefeller Jr., Louis Auchincloss, David Halberstam, Judd Hirsch and Amanda Burden. The Auchincloss house was featured in Architectural Digest. 1985-1988 I taught at the Joan and Lee Wulff Fly Fishing School on the Beaverkill River in Lew Beach, New York. 1985-1986 I taught Art at New Hope, a residence of mentally disabled adults, in South Fallsburg, New York 1980-1985 I was the Exhibits Designer at Baker Library at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire and also a photographer for the college. 1980 I designed, edited, and produced the coffee-table book, Harry Callahan:Color for Matrix Publications in Providence, Rhode Island. This book won the U.S. Graphic Arts Association award for Best Illustrated Book of 1980. 1979 After graduating from Rhode Island School of Design I lived in France and continued painting and studying painting. 1967-1971 I had a professional career as a photojournalist and was affiliated with Magnum Photos in NYC. I had many magazine assignments between 1967 and 1971 and was the still photographer on two feature films. In 1970I studied with Ansel Adams in Yosemite National Park. 1963-1967 At Brown University I was in the English Honors Program and was very active in the theater. I worked in summer stock for two summers and appeared in TV soap operas and commercials as an actor. I also studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse with Sanford Meisner in New York City. I worked summers as a production assistant on Love of Life, one of the soap operas on CBS created by my father, Roy Winsor of Roy Winsor Productions Inc.
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