I have always had an interest in all things art. I enjoy working with my hands. I grew up in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago and was lucky enough to go to school in districts that valued the arts. I went to Northern Illinois University and majored in Art Education with an intense concentration in studio art and a minor in art history. After two years of teaching high school art for the Victorian Department of Education in Melbourne Australia, I returned to the suburbs of Chicago and taught a broad spectrum of art subjectmatter for another thirty five years along with...more