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2011 Environmental/Adirondack Studies Residency
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RESIDENCY SPEAKERS 2009

Our guest speaker at the 2009 residency will be David Wheeler, MFA.
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David Wheeler



David is an artist/educator living in New York State. He has an M.F.A. from Tufts University (in affiliation with the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston) and a B.F.A. in art education from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. He studied additionally at the Skowhegan (Maine) School of Painting and Sculpture, the University of Alaska, and the Banff Centre School of Fine Arts in Alberta, Canada.

He has been a teacher and practicing artist for 25 years, instructing at colleges in New York and Massachusetts. He currently teaches art and design courses at the State University of New York's Empire State College; art and aesthetic theory for creative arts in therapy majors at Russell Sage College in Troy, NY; 3-D design and sculpture at the Sage College of Albany; and art history at the Pratt Institute Extension Center Campus at Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica, NY. Too, he is currently developing courses for the Shoal Marine Lab at Cornell University. As an artist-in-the-schools, he has worked in 28 Eskimo, Athabaskan, Aleut, Aleutik, Guichen, and Haida villages for the Alaska State Arts Council. He has written of this work and his Iceman Project (archaeology for middle school students) in Art Education, the journal of the National Art Teachers Association.

His life-long interest in natural history fuels his work as an artist, science illustrator and museum model maker. He has made life-sized dinosaur reproductions for the American Museum of Natural History in New York and the Osaka Museum of Natural History in Japan. He has made various other models for the Adirondack Museum, the University of Vermont, and the Museum of Afro-American History. His drawings help illustrate Benjamin DeBrie Taylor's Design Lessons from Nature. He is a member of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators and the National Marine Educators Association. He presents workshops in drawing and science illustration at museums, schools, colleges, and universities.

Exhibitions
  • The American Museum of Natural History
  • The Smithsonian Institution's Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD
  • The Palace of the King of Portugal
  • The New York State Museum, Albany, NY
  • The University of New England, Marine Science Education and Research Center, Biddeford, ME Denver Museum of Science and Nature
  • University of Kansas Museum of Natural History and Biodiversity Research Center
  • Corning School of Ocean Studies/Maine Maritime Academy
  • Virginia Marine Science Museum
  • Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Marine Ecosystem Research Labs

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