WRITINGS

2005 “Bonsai,” Chelsea, NYC, “The Monkey Head” (forthcoming). Included in Chicago Noir; An Anthology
1999 “The Second Man On The Moon,” Fiction, NYC;
1987 “Vacillation” (fiction) - Kansas Quarterly.
1985 “Scenes From an Illustrated History of The World”- text of performance in High Performance Magazine, L.A.. Essay of Teaching Performance
1984 “Scenes From An Illustrated History of The World” (performance text and drawings of performance) Whitewalls Magazine, Chicago.
1983 Essay, in High Performance, L.A.
1981 Stories included in the book, “Hotel” - an anthology of short stories, Tanam Press, NYC.
1980 “Drifter”- The New Yorker.

SELECTED PERFORMANCES

2003 The Central Black Hole of The Universe, Chicago Cultural Center
2002 Interviewing the Dead, Rhinoceros Theater Festival, Chicago Ragman , The Lunar Cabaret, Chicago
2001 Looking at Chagall, The Lunar Cabaret, Chicago.
1997 The Cat, The Canary, The Spoon, and His Intoxicating Friend -The Blue Rider Theater, Chicago.
1996 Looking For Franz Kafka - Duke University, Institute of The Arts, Durham, NC; University of Iowa; Blue Rider Theater, Chicago.
1995 In The Sky Above Prague - Blue Rider Theater, Chicago.
1993 God’s Brain - Dixson Place, NYC. Looking For Paradise - Pauline Olivaros Studio, Kingston, NY.
1992 Looking For Paradise & God’s Brain - Syracuse University, Duke University Institute of The Arts (Sponsored by N.P.N.) Looking For Paradise - Kansas City Art Institute. The Jungle Book Revisited - performed for National College Art Association conference in Chicago.
1991 The Patrons of Ancestors and Sustenance -Center For Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland and Lublin, Poland.
1990 Two People Came Over - Columbia College Dance Center (Sponsored by grant from NEA Interarts).
1988 Reconstructing The Temple From Memory - LACE, Los Angeles (sponsored by a grant from N.P.N.)
1987 Fictions & “A Man Is Sitting”- State of Illinois Building auditorium (main event for Performance Chicago.) God’s Brain -Chicago Cultural Center auditorium.
1986 Reconstructing The Temple From Memory - Organic Theater, Chicago & University of Wisconsin, Madison and Green Bay.
1985 An Explanation For Comets - MoMing, Chicago. Night Sky With Stars Over
The New City of Munich Maryland Institute of The Arts, Baltimore, also at
Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago.
1984 We Are America’s People - Film-In-The-City, St. Paul, MN. The Teachings of John Brown in Florida - Franklin Furnace, NYC, and at The W.P.A. Washington, DC. We Are Americas People - Pyramid Club, NYC. Scenes From An Illustrated History - University of Denver & The Joslyn Museum.
1981 Scenes From An Illustrated History of The World - Israel Museum, Telaviv Museum. The Alternative Museum, NYC, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England, Hull College, Hull, England. University of Colorado, Boulder.
1979 Short Plays For A Man On The Moon - WPA, Washington, DC, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, The Teachings of John Brown in Florida, The Franklin Furnace, NYC.
1978 Short Plays For A Man On The Moon, MOMA, NYC. I began making performances in 1974 in Edinburgh, Scotland, performing “Wattle & Dabble,” in the Forest Hill Performance Space as part of The Fringe.

WORKS FOR RADIO

1978-80 “The Audio Encyclopedia of Personal Knowledge” project: aired on local NPR stations and on All Things Considered. Text of broadcast anthologized in Susan Stambergs’s The Best Of A.T.C.
1980 “The Audio Encyloperia,” Israel Radiom Jeruselem.
1981 “The Audio Encyclopedia” project; Hull, England. Sponsored and broadcast of BBC Radio 4 and replayed as that’s weeks “Pick of The Week.”

THE VISUAL ARTS

It has been some years since I have made “visual art,” and over those years I have excluded mention of them from my resume. As best I can recollect, and not in chronologic order, are places where I have exhibited paintings, drawings, photography or objects. I exclude dates because at best they would be approximations.
Rosa Esman Gallery, NYC
Cavalino Gallery, Venice, Italy
Richard Feigen Gallery, Chicago
The Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England
The Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburg, Scotland
The Art Institute of Chicago
MoMing, Chicago
University of Kansas, Lawrence
Kansas City Art Institute
University of Iowa, Iowa City
University of Kentucky, Lexington
Cranbrook Academy, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
The Ferends Museum, Hull England
The Franklin Furnace, NYC
The Chicago Cultural Center
N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
University of Colorodo, Boulder
American Cultural Center, Jeruselem
The Alternative Museum, NYC
(Many of my paintings and drawings are in private and public collections)

FELLOWSHIPS

N.E.A. -1990, 1987, 1980.
Illinois Arts Council -2000, 1998, 1991,1988, 1987, 1986

SCHOOLING

O’Keeffe Grammar School, Chicago
Hyde Park High School, Chicago
BS in Economics, Drake University, 1961
Certificate in Medical Illustration, University of Illinois College of Medicine, 1964
MA in Painting, University of Iowa, 1967

TEACHING

Instructor in Painting, University of Iowa, 1969-1971
Professor, Kansas City Art Institute, 1972-1982
Professor, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, 1983 to the present