I was born in Newark, NJ in 1948, and grew up in various towns in New Jersey, New York, and finally Richmond, Virginia, where I graduated from high school.  Although I had been taking art lessons since the second grade, I ended up majoring in English at Franconia College, Franconia, NH (BA, 1970).  As part of my undergraduate studies, I studied at the School for Foreigners at the University of Florence […]