NewYork Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, MFA Program in Painting 2013-2015

Empire State College, Bachelor of Science, concentration in Visual Arts 1984

A Second Chance At Life Foundation, Inc.Certificate for Substance Abuse Specific topics for the Addiction Counselor, 350 education and training hours 2011

Founder of The Southeast Queens, Drawing and Painting Atelier, 2005-2015
Students ages  8 years to 12 years old enjoyed a 2 hour class; 13yrs thru 12th grade, and our very special adult enjoyed a 3 hour class. Our Mission was committed to giving a significant artistic foundation to students regardless of age. Students were introduced to the language of drawing, color, mediums and composition. The Studio was committed to working from direct observation using the traditional genres: still life, landscape and the figure. Students were also encouraged to provide mentorship to their peers in the Studio community.

Pre-College drawing instructor, Fashion Institute of Technology, taught Pre-2007, 2010, 2011

Instructor at the Creative Center at University Settlement, NYC, February 2016
The creative Center is a program dedicated to bring the creative arts to people with cancer, chronic illness and through-out all stages of life

Created the image “The African Burial Ground” mixed media acrylic and collage, 40” x30’’ 1992; The artwork would be used to rally grass-roots support and would eventually become a focal point, when it was installed and unveiled at the Howard University “Ties That Bind” event honoring the arrival of the African Burial Ground skeletal remains from the NYC site in November 1993. The next ten years I traveled throughout NYC along with Amal A. Muhammad lecturing on the significance and importance of preserving the burial site that ‘s estimated to be the final resting place of over 20,000 burials that represent the connection between, Our African ancestors and the African Diaspora descendants of today.

The African Burial Ground in NYC Memory, Spirituality and Space-  Andrea E. Frohne, Syracuse University Press 2015, David R. Gayle, The African Burial Ground, 1992 (fig. 41) pgs. 230-246