ABOUT ME

As a Mexican American I dreamed of being an artist and professor while attending art school in the Midwest. I witnessed zero representation of minorities like me in secondary institutions. I also attended art school during an era when professors could belittle their students with verbal abuse, and I wanted to be part of the change.

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As an educator and photographer, I've traveled throughout North America and Europe exhibiting and lecturing on contemporary art. After twenty-five years of teaching, I wrote my first novel. I felt the same joy I had as a painter or while drawing. Writing was just another satisfying creative outlet of life as an artist. 

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​A HOBO'S TRACKS​​

Birth- Santa Ana, California

EDUCATION

​Graduate School- The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Postgraduate- Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond

PROFESSOR

Art Institute of Atlanta

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Washtenaw Community College

University of Tennessee, Chattanooga

Southern Arkansas University

University of Texas Pan-America

University of Michigan

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