Consulting Statement

A consultant is only as effective as their breadth and depth of pertinent knowledge, their quickness to understand the expressed and unexpressed needs and resources of their client, and the ability to present their clients with acceptable and doable advice on how to get from the present situation to the desired one. I can do that.


Forty years creating art, teaching art, preparing and supervising art teachers and art therapists, writing and lecturing about art and its education, evaluating art and art education programs, chairing and being on boards of art institutions across the country and in half a dozen countries, to schools, museums and a variety of other community based arts institutions, has provided me with a broad field of first hand knowledge of best and not best theory and practice. It is not too much to claim that I can tell strong art and art education programs from weak ones. I can tell the same about the faculty and institutional resources. I can explain why this is so and what to do about it.

I understand the positions of teachers and administrators and students and funders and evaluators and artists and concerned citizens because I have been all of these for the best part of forty years. If I don't know what needs to be known, I know who does and how to get it. I know how to speak effectively with artists and teachers and administrators and concerned citizens because I have had to do so in one way or another every day these last forty years- and I keep getting invitations to do so.


As a consultant I can provide the following services;