1. Scott Michael Potter
1313 NW Vivion Rd, Kansas City, MO 64118; 816-255-2753; scottotterpotter@gmail.com
Publications
BOOKS
Tree of Love: Mythologies Interdigitating. 66 Pages.
Features original Scott M. Potter Oil Paintings, Photographs & Poetry, 2004
Nature Sings. 80 Pages.
Features original Scott M. Potter Photographs & Poetry, 2012
POEMS
IN
PRINT
FORM
Samplers: Student Art & Writings: Aquinas College, 1994, 1995, 2000, 2001
Sampler VI, 1994
“‘Daphne Transformed, Feeling Herself Laurel, Wishes You Become Wind’—Rilke.”
Page 10.
“DWM Blues II.” Page 21.
Sampler VII, 1995
“Boucher’s Backdrop.” Page 18.
“Babble.” Page 36.
Sampler Twelve, 2000
“Soul Eyes.” Page 25.
Sampler Thirteen, 2001
“Poetry.” Page 48.
The National Library of Poetry. Owings Mills, MD: Watermark P, 1998, 2000
“The Beauty Lies in Bleeding.” Page 83. Outstanding Poets of 1998. Ed. Richard
Schaub.
“Hiemal Despair.” Page 20. The Harmony of Silence. Ed. John C. Sullivan.
Betweens: Pacifica Graduate Institute Literary Review, 2003, 2004, 2005
Between, 2003
Dreams Escape. Page 2.
Between, 2004
Language of Leaves. Page 60.
Between, 2005
Sunshiner Shine On. Page 24-25.
Re-Membering Gaia in Memory, Moment and Work. Inside Back Cover.
Songs of Honour. New York: Noble House Publishers
Mythic-Moving. Page 3. 2006
Taj Mahal Review: Cyberwit’s International Journal Devoted to Arts, Literature,
Poetry and Culture. Vol. 8. Number 2. December 2009; Vol. 9. Number 1. June 2010
ISSN 0972-6004
Perfect Length. Page 161. Allahabad, India: Cyberwit.net. 2009
Dreaming Again. Page 161. Allahabad, India: Cyberwit.net. 2009
Tolkienku. Page 161. Allahabad, India: Cyberwit.net. 2009

2. Gaia Tributes. Page 161. Allahabad, India: Cyberwit.net. 2009
Thus Throws Zeus. Page 161. Allahabad, India: Cyberwit.net. 2009
Zeus’s Spear Meets Thor’s Hammer. Page 161. Allahabad, India:
Cyberwit.net. 2009
Thor’s Lingering Murmur. Page 161. Allahabad, India: Cyberwit.net. 2009
Baldur’s Nightmare. Page 161. Allahabad, India: Cyberwit.net. 2009
Demeter Seeks Persephone. Page 161. Allahabad, India: Cyberwit.net. 2009
Flower Echoes. Page 166-67. Allahabad, India: Cyberwit.net. 2010
Spirit Dance. Page 192. Allahabad, India: Cyberwit.net. 2010
Warrior. Page 192. Allahabad, India: Cyberwit.net. 2010
ONLINE
Mythic Artist.
“Exhaling Plath,” “I am a Tree,” and “An Ocean Sojourne.”
http://www.mythicartist.org/artists/profiles/scottpotter.html, 2004
EastVillagePoetry.com.
“Tolkienku,” “Heart-Filled Waves,” “Waiting Blues,” and “A Mythic Land.”
http://www.eastvillagepoetry.com/OldPages/SMPotter.htm, 2004
The International Library of Poetry: Poetry.com 1998-2004
*Listed under the first Potter, Scott entry: “But Beauty Vanishes; Beauty Passes;
However Rare It Be: DeLaMare,” “Great Art,” “Hiemal Despair,” “How Long We
Sit,” “I Resist the Current Paradigm,” “I Resist the Current Paradigm II,” “Inside
the Silence,” “Jerémainy Potter,” “Language of Leaves,” “Melancholy Whispers,”
“Natural Rotary,” “Oh Beautiful Sun That We May Be One,” “Only the Lonely
Know,” “Pop, Nat, and Favors,” “Snow and Sparrows,” “The Tragedy of Chance
Encounter,” “This Place Now,” “Too Swift, River Consciousness,” “Your Shame Is
Not Mine, Nor Mine Yours;”
*Listed under the first Potter, Scott Michael entry: “Abiku,” “No Costuming
Necessary,” “So True a Fool is Love that in Your Will…,” “The Beauty Lies in
Bleeding;”
*Listed under the second Potter, Scott Michael entry: “African Portal,” “Pequod Down!
Poseidon Issues…;”
*Listed under the third Potter, Scott Michael entry: “Exhaling Plath,” “Inside the
Silence,” and “The Beauty is in Bleeding: An Alchemical Transformation.”
http://www.poetry.com/Publications/search.asp
IMAGES
IN
PRINT
FORM
Betweens: Pacifica Graduate Institute Literary Review, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
Between, 2003
Warrior. Front Cover.
Between, 2004
Arch Portal. Front Cover.
Pacifica Morning Fog. Page 22.
Greenman. Inside Back Cover.
Between, 2005
Alchemartist. Page 8.
Cosmic Tree Meets Kabbalah. Page 25.

3. Re-Membering Gaia. Inside Back Cover.
Between, 2006
Lord Underworld. Front Cover.
Taj Mahal Review: Cyberwit’s International Journal Devoted to Arts, Literature,
Poetry and Culture. Vol. 9. Number 1. June 2010, ISSN 0972-6004
Spirit Dance. Page 192. Allahabad, India: Cyberwit.net, June 2010.
Warrior. Page 192. Allahabad, India: Cyberwit.net, June 2010.
ONLINE
Mythic Artist (http://www.mythicartist.org)
three trees photo 64. 2004
three trees photo 9974. 2004
ESSAYS
and
ARTICLES
“Daphne.” Mythology: A CD-ROM Encyclopedia; Vol. 1: Greek and Roman. Ed. Ginette Paris.
MultimediaMultimedia.com, 2000
“Artemis as Embodied in the Ents.” Archetypal Images in Cinema. Ed. Ginette Paris.
http://www.online.pacifica.edu/cinema/member/login, 2004
Exhibitions,
Artwork,
Research
and
Writing
Exhibitions
Art
for
the
Blind
and
not
so
Blind MI 1994 Aquinas College
• Organized, directed, set up, and advertised one-man clay sculpture show; held at the Art
and Music Center in the main gallery space for a week; all 65 of these sculptures are now
in private collections in MI, OH, CA, WA, IN, WI and MN
Artist
Booth
Rental
in
Eastown
Coffee
&
Arts
Festival MI 1994
• Displayed and sold ceramic sculptures from “Art for the Blind and Not So Blind”
exhibition
Annual
Student
Art
Show MI 1995 Aquinas College
• Designed mailer for show; photo and drawing juried in to multimedia student art show;
held at the Art and Music Center in the main gallery space for a month; photo in private
collection in MI, drawing in CA
Artist
of
the
Month
in
Crescent
Harbor
Art
Gallery
CA 2006
• Seven photographs, two oil paintings, and book of images and poems in June showing
Photographer
in
Juried
Art
Show
Crescent
Harbor
Art
Gallery
CA 2006
• A photograph juried into September show: Waving Ra
Photographer
and
Poet
in
4-­‐Artist
Crescent
City
Artists
Exhibition OR 2006
• Invited to hang 4 photos and 4 poems as part of multimedia exhibition at Chetco
Community Public Library, during Second Saturday Art Walk in Brookings, OR; several
paintings and poem pairs now in private collections in CA and OR
Photographer
in
Biscuit
Gallery,
Gold
Beach
Books
OR 2007
• Wild Rivers Coast Photography Show in Gold Beach, OR—Three photographs accepted
into May-June show: Royal Verbena; Reflections in the Lap of Nature; and, Indigo
Henry’s Beach Sunset II
Oil
Painter
in
Second
Saturday
Art
Walk
OR 2007

4. • Invited to hang 3 large oil paintings as part of multimedia exhibition and concert at Brian
Scott Gallery, during Second Saturday Art Walk in Brookings, OR; Daphne; Tree-
Transformative; and, Narcissus-Us Re-Transforming; oil paintings now in private
collections in CA, MI, and MO
Photographer
in
Group
Exhibition
CA 2007
• A photograph juried into August show: Climbing Dancing Tree, private collection in MI
Photographer
in
Group
Exhibition
CA 2008
• Invited to hang 6 photos as part of multimedia exhibition at The Gallery of Arts and
Culture, Redwoodian Helix Series 1-6 were hung, all of these are now in private
collections in CA, OR, IN, MI, KS, and MO
Oil
Painter
in
Group
Exhibition
CA 2010
• Invited to hang one image, Apollo Waiting, an oil painting, as part of the September 24
through October 29, Art in Public Places, Del Norte County Courthouse, The Arts Salon I
Art as Business Program Multimedia Exhibition
Art
of
Scott
Michael
Potter
in
Essential
Bean MI 2011
• Organized, directed, set up, and advertised one-man solo exhibition for a month; oil
painting and photos now in private collections in MI
Photographer
in
Wall
of
Honor,
Garden
Village MO 2014
• Photographed 11 Veterans for inclusion in Wall of Honor at Retirement Community;
reframed all existing photos, biographical information and design elements
Visual
Art
OIL
PAINTINGS
Bridgewater Place Reflecting. 16x20.
Downtown
building
and
Grand
River
J.W. Marriott Illumination. 16x20.
Downtown
building
and
Grand
River
Blue Bridge Abstraction. 16x20.
Downtown
wedding
photo
bridge
spans
Grand
River
Narcissus-Us Re-Transforming.
69x70.
Tree
&
Being
by
Water;
collaborative
Surreal Seascape.
20x30.
Sea
in
surreal
representation;
meditative
World Tree Abstracted.
48x48.
Global
World
Tree
becomingness;
meditative
Infinite Butterfly.
14x18.
Infinity
as
a
butterfly;
meditative
Tree-Transformative.
68x68.
Being
and
tree
are
entwined;
meditative
Plato’s Form of Tree.
20x30.
World
Tree
in
process
of
becomingness;
meditative
Unification Tree.
24x36.
Life,
Knowledge
&
Cross
W.
Trees
as
one;
meditative
Baucis & Philemon.
24x36.
Greek
Couple
as
Transformation
Trees;
meditative
Yggdrasil.
24x36.
Nordic
World
Tree;
meditative
Kabbalchem Tree.
20x30.
Kabbalah
&
Alchemy
World
Trees
as
one;
meditative
Bodhi Tree.
24x36.
Buddhist
World
Tree
in
process
of
becomingness;
meditative
Aphrodite Gestating.
24x48.
Aphrodite
impregnated
with
Eros;
meditative
Apollo Waiting.
20x30.
Apollo
is
in
process
of
becomingness;
meditative
Goddess Becoming.
20x30.
Goddess
is
in
process
of
becomingness;
meditative
Daphne.
52x52.
Daphne
is
in
process
of
escape
or
imprisonment
in
tree;
meditative
Daphne Becoming.
24x36.
Daphne
is
in
process
of
becomingness;
meditative
Nerve Being.
24x32.
Abstract
being
as
nerve
centers
Basket Buddha.
16x20.
Buddha
head
still
life
Nautilus.
16x20.
Microbiological
impression
Atlas Shrugs.
35.75x72.
Sculptural
embodying

5. OIL
PASTELS
Daphne Trilogy. Triptych.
2-­‐18x24,
1-­‐28x40.
Daphne
is
freed
from
the
tree
in
stages
Fall U.P. 8.5x10.75.
Autumnal
foliage
upper
Lake
Michigan
coastline;
plein
air
MIXED
MEDIA
Daphne.
Spray
Insulation
Foam
&
Canvas.
5’x7’.
Daphne
coming
out
of
the
tree
Igneus.
Sidewalk
Piece/Paper
Mache/Plaster/Acrylic.
3’x2’.
Igneus
Bust
Outdoor
Mandalas.
Nature/Found
Art.
Various
sizes
solo
and
with
groups
adults/children
COMPUTER
GRAPHICS Graphically
Enhanced
Digital
Photos
Ravendala.
World
Tree
Protector
Entity
Watching.
Deity
Looking
Upon
World
Alchemartist.
Alchemist
meets
Dragon
Greenwoman.
Powerful
Forest
Entity
Lochness.
Vibrant
Water
Entity
Poseidon Rising.
Powerful
Water
Entity
Tantalus.
Powerfully
Eerie
Cave
Entity
Protoplasm.
Original
Matter
Animal Spirits.
Primordial
Creatures
She-He Said.
Surrealist
Archetype
Forest Demon.
Symbolic
Demon
Archetype
Fairy 1.
Fairy
Archetype
Hawkman.
Metamorphosis/Hawk/Human
Spirit Faces.
Numen
Withal
Warrior 2.
From
Underworld
Written
Word
POEMS
Entities of the World.
200+
poetical
pills:
global
entities
classified
like
Macks,
plus
Psyche
group
Soul Card Poetry.
Series
of
poems
based
on
Soul
Cards
of
Deborah-­‐Koff
Chapman
Mythic Poems.
A
Cave’s
Worth
Pondering,
A
Grown
Tree,
A
Muse
is
Amusing,
African
Portal,
African
Song,
An
Eternity
in
Yesterday,
Apollo’s
Delivery,
Caste(ing)
Wiccan
Love,
Daphne
series,
Draupadi,
Earth
Retaliates,
Epimetheus,
Eros,
Ether
as
Spirit,
Gods,
Gods,
Titans
&
Humans,
Greenman,
Halcyon
Glade
without
a
Chariot,
Hiemal
Despair,
I
Once
Loved
to
Hear
the
Sirens,
I
was
Sevia,
Igneus,
Inside
the
Silence,
Laud
the
Poetry,
Liminality,
Liquid
Earth,
Liquid
Sky,
Lotus
Journey,
Maya:
the
creative
illusion,
Momentary
Fugue,
Myth’ll
Mythn’t
Myth’s,
Mytheme
or
Polymytheme,
Natural
Rotary,
No
Gibberish
too
Gibbery,
Ocean
Galaxies,
Ode
to
Sappho,
Opening
Portals
to
the
Hidden,
Peace
Wades
Strife,
Succubus,
Pequod
Down,
Poesis
Imparted,
Psyche
Centering,
Rip
in
the
Hollow,
Salute
the
Sacrifice
of
Pan,
Soul
Eyes,
Telesphoros,
The
Blue
Pearl,
The
Tryst
of
Psyche
and
Apollo,
Tree
Spirit
Flowers,
Tree
Talk,
Trees,
Truffula
Trees,
We
Are
Earth,
Air,
Water,
Fire,
Ether,
among
others
PAPERS
Attending Aquinas College, Masters of Management, 2001
“An
Outline
of
Beliefs
and
Thoughts,
as
Religious
Synthesis
Based
in
Faith.”
“The
Faith
of
Islam—Submission
to
God.”
Business
Ethics
(MG
570)

6. Attending Pacifica Graduate Institute, Mythological Studies MA/Ph.D., 2002-05
2002
Fall
Quarter
“A
Beginner
Mythologist’s
Initial
Definition
of
Myth.”
Approaches
to
the
Study
of
Myth
(MS
620)
“Transformative
and
Archetypal
Lotus.”
Mythology
and
Personal
Transformation
(MS
520)
“Mahabharata
as
Self-­‐Mastery
Perpetuating
War.”
Asian
Religious
Traditions
I
(MS
503)
2003
Winter
Quarter
“Daphne
&
Alchemical
Transformation.”
History
of
Depth
Psychology
(MS
510)
“Psychologizing
Cinderella.”
Folklore
&
Fairytales
(MS
602)
“Daphne.”
Greek
and
Roman
Mythology
I
(MS
505)
Spring
Quarter
“Receiving
Imparted
Poesis.”
Approaches
to
Dream
(MS
521)
“Artful
Individuation
Today.”
Jungian
Depth
Psychology
(MS
511)
“Death
as
Savior
in
Journey.”
&
“Ishmael’s
Coffin
Salvation.”
Epic
Imagination
(MS
604)
Summer
Quarter
“White
Roots
of
Peace
Meets
Yggdrasil:
[…].”
Native
Mythologies
of
the
Americas
(MS
522)
Fall
Quarter
“Soul
Persephone
&
Soul
Demeter
Move.”
Greek
&
Roman
Mythologies
II
(MS
705)
“Within
the
Approach
of
Out
or
In:
[…].”
African
and
African
Diaspora
Mythologies
(MS
506)
“Image
Imagining
Imagination.”,
“Shadow
and
Luminescent
Darkness.”,
&
“Thinking
Linguistically.”
Post-­‐Jungian
&
Archetypal
Theory
(MS
611)
2004
Winter
Quarter
“Mythological
Relevance
of
Trees
in
Buddhism.”
&
“On
the
Need
for
New
Paradigms.”
Buddhist
Traditions
(MS
605)
“Trees
in
the
Middle
Ages.”
European
Sacred
Traditions
(MS
502)
“Art,
Mythology
&
Nature:
A
Union
of
Poesis.”
&
“Nature’s
Tenor:
Trees
as
Vehicle.”
Cultural
Mythologies
I:
Joseph
Campbell
(MS
514)
Spring
Quarter
“Scientific-­‐Psycho-­‐Mythological
Trees
and
Water.”
Psyche
and
Nature
(MS
615)
“Hunting
Trees.”
Hunting
&
Agricultural
Mythologies
(MS
725)
“KabbAlchemTree.”
Esoteric
Traditions
(MS
607)
Summer
Quarter
“Artemis
as
Embodied
in
the
Ents.”
Archetypal
Image
in
Cinema
(MS
626)
“Joseph
Campbell,
C.G.
Jung
and
Alchemy.”
&
“Deforesting
Tree
&
Soul.”
Integrative
Studies
(MS
630);
Part
I:
Mythology
and
Religious
Traditions—Part
II:
Depth
Psychology,
Literature
and
Culture
Fall
Quarter
“Icons
Do
Not
Corral
the
Sacred
or
Numinous:
On
the
Necessity
of
an
Understanding
of
the
Interrelationship
Between
Aesthesis
and
Poesis.”
Cultural
Mythologies
II
(MS
614)
“‘Crossing’
the
Tree
of
Life.”
Mythologies
of
the
Monotheistic
Traditions
(MS
701)

7. “A
Transformational
Journey
Through
Dante’s
Trees.”
&
“Dante
Trees
into
Paradiso.”
Mythopoetic
Images
(MS
727)
2005
Winter
Quarter
“Losing
Religiosity
in
a
Haystack
of
Mythology.”
“God-­‐Imaged
Self.”
A
New
Myth
of
God
(MS
711)
“Seeing
Treeing
Osiris.”
Egyptian
Mythology
(MS
714)
“Keen
Insights.”
Religious
Studies
Approaches
to
Mythology
(MS
720)
Spring
Quarter
“The
As-­‐sidrat
al-­‐muntaha:
The
Ultimate
Lotus
Tree.”
Islamic
Traditions
(MS
608)
“Ra
or
Re
it’s
the
Same
to
Me:
Self.”
Cultural
Myth
III:
Egyptian
Mythology
(MS
714)
“From
Birthing
to
Sublimating
Trees
in
Buddhism.”
Buddhist
Traditions
II
(MS
724)
Summer
Quarter
“Seeing
Into
Self
Through
Numinosity
in
a
Life.”
Myths
of
the
Self:
Memoir
&
Autobiography
(MS
726)
RITUALS
“Condolence Ceremony.” October 9, 2003
“Marriage Ceremony.” April 9, 2004
INTERNET
Mythic Artist. http://www.mythicartist.org/artists/profiles/scottpotter.html: poetry
East Village Poetry. http://www.eastvillagepoetry.com/OldPages/SMPotter.htm: poetry
Poetry.com. http://www.poetry.com: poetry in many listings under Potter, Scott & Potter, Scott
Michael
between. http://www.thebetween.org: front cover images, co-editor 2004-5
Flickr. http://flickr.com/photos/56099871@N00/: digital images, both graphic and photographic
Picasa. https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/myphotos: Artistic Tour 2011—National Parks
Service Parks
Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=678292664&sk=photos: Artistic
Tour 2011—National Parks Service Parks; Del Norte County images; Sequoia de
O’ images; West Michigan images; Artwork images
BLOGSPOTS
http://www.mythologicalmeanderings.blogspot.com: Mythological poetry, images, papers and
rambles
http://sequoia-de-o.blogspot.com/: collaborative verse poetry, photographs, and a wedding ritual
http://threetrees.blogspot.com/: an ongoing series of photographs of three backyard trees
WEBSITES
http://www.jwadkins.com: JW Adkins Artist website, 2003
http://www.potterpoetry.tripod.com: photography and poetry, website deleted due to inactivity, 2001
Degree,
Training
and
Certification
• Bachelors of Visual Arts Administration MI 1987-1995 Aquinas
College

8. The major concentration was on Western art history, though certainly other art
concerns and art forms and geographical art were addressed; I focused my
studies on nonprofits; this is a dual bachelor degree, with Art Administration and
Business Administration coupled with a Studio Art Minor
• Garden Oasis Organizer MI 1993-1997
Otter Terrace Gardens was a garden oasis situated on the “front lawn” and in the
“backyard” of my 2-story duplex within Eastown, an artsy enclave in Grand
Rapids, MI. The “backyard” area featured herbs and perennials, along with male
and female kiwi along the fence line. I grew the herbs and most of the perennials
planted over the winter inside with grow lights, seeds and trays. In the “front
lawn” I removed the sod and lawn and added topsoil circular mounds on both
sides of the front porch entry. Each mound featured a sculptural element, of my
own creating, as well as a butterfly bush. The tops of the mounds were planted
with color coordinated spring bulbs and perennials and ground cover were
planted for striking effect over the rest. I purposively planted two internationally-
protected-species dawn redwoods flanking a tulip tree in the “lawn” between the
sidewalk and the street. The idea was that these protected trees would eventually
become a community-wide-bonding experience/community-aware-
involved/project because they would begin to encroach upon sidewalk and street
once they got old enough. I also envisioned these trees being the impetus to
convince the city to start the necessary project in this area for underground wires
versus telephone poles. Unfortunately, the new homebuyers moved the dawn
redwoods to a family member’s 13-acre property so they would have more room.
The tulip tree now rises taller than most of the old oaks on the block.
• Studio Art Minor MI 1994-1995 Aquinas College
Concentrated studies in ceramics and clay sculpture led to a one-man clay
sculpture show, Art for the Blind and not so Blind; some oil paintings painted
now in private collections; some photographs now in private collections; all of the
clay sculptures in private collections as they were sold to public attending an
outdoor festival of the arts where I rented a booth
• Master of Management MI 1999-2001 Aquinas College
Concentrated cornerstone course and much of the rest of open assignments on
art, for-profit and nonprofit, from legalities, such as copyrights, patents and
trademarks, to writing a 75-page business plan for an online and brick and
mortar art organization that is a hybrid for-profit and nonprofit community and
art mecca for all parties interested in art and artists, from distributors to
collectors, from artists to appreciators, from suppliers to agents, from galleries to
museums
• Garden Oasis Organizer MI 2000-2002
Portman Gardens was a garden oasis situated within a Condominium Association
on a side lawn area that required permission and buy-in from the Association
Board. Once approval was gained, I carefully pulled up the sod in the planned
area where a limestone walled enclosure in an elongated paramecium shape
would be built. The clay and dirt surface on a slope, had to be leveled for the wall
base, and then gradually the leftovers from a limestone porch demolition were
pieced together to form a solid interlinking wall that reached about eight inches
high off the ground at its level height to about a foot off the ground at the lowest

9. point of the slope. Topsoil was added inside the wall along with mulch and then
the plantings of color coordinated and deer-resistant (fritillary) bulbs, perennials,
and a shrub, were complemented by Jackmani clematis in the center climbing a
tripod of seven-foot metal trellises. Large-flowering hibiscus were added to
augment the rhododendron alongside the entryway. Association members would
stop by daily on their walks to “smell the roses”. Four years after relocating to
Santa Barbara, the Association replaced Portman Gardens with sod and a bush.
• Master of Mythology/Psychology CA 2003-2005 Pacifica G.I.
Focused studies on World Tree Mythology and first Concept Paper involved a
Studio Art component, which included five oil paintings of World Trees, poetry
about them, and photographic representations of alleged tree types in the myths
• Garden Oasis Organizer CA 2005-2010
Sequoia de O’ is a garden oasis situated on one-acre of deforested redwood
country in Fort Dick, CA, a suburb of Crescent City, where I was the principal
gardener, landscaper, drip system maintainer, gardens maintainer, planter of
1200 trees and 1800 flowering bushes and shrubs and 10,000 bulbs and
perennials, as well as some annuals periodically; I also supervised large-scale
projects such as the installation of two different two-pond systems with
waterfalls, one involving a crane and mammoth boulders, both with circulating
water, and one two-pond system featuring a lap pool-pond 35-feet long by 14-feet
wide and 6.5-feet deep connected by a channel flowing under a 20-feet long
arcing wooden bridge to a 12-feet diameter, 4-feet deep spiral pond straddled by
a 21-feet tall aluminum tripod supporting a 14-feet long wind chime, all fed by
and circulated by a waterfall streaming down from a 12-feet tall redwood stump
that cascaded down into a pool and flowed through a streambed under an 8-feet
arcing wooden bridge to spill into the 35-feet wide pool-pond, water pumps
fueled the pushing water in both systems and operated at the bottoms of a
concrete cylinder and pond; 14 different harmonious wind chimes from Music of
the Spheres created a musical symphony during breezes and gusts; many special
features were built on location, unique structures, such as an arborgola, an
octagonal ceremonial “house”; drip system was run throughout the garden areas;
electrical was also run underground to put up night lighting; seating areas were
designed and planned with couches and chairs and tables in specific garden
themes, such as a bamboo grove, a palm grove, a rhododendron grove, a camellia
grove, a fern and tree fern grove, and at the Stonehenge fire pit encircled by
mammoth granite quarried boulders; this garden oasis was accessible any season
because of the 77-tons of the interconnecting winding flagstone pathways and
arbor tunnels with fragrant flowering vines and kiwi, and some of it was even
wheelchair accessible; Garretta Lamore painted a watercolor of one of the ponds,
which Lise Hamilton now has at the home
• Workshop Art Leader CA/OR 2008/2009
Gateway Education, Summer Day Camp for kids, I was the outdoor and found art
teacher for the camp of between 30-50 kids; taught them sculptural elements,
aesthetics and poesthetics, focusing on mandalas, at different locations on Mill
Creek, Smith River, and Winchuck River
• Camp Photographer CA 2009

10. Gateway Education, Summer Day Camp for kids, I was the camp photographer
for the camp of between 30-50 kids; photographing in different locations
throughout Del Norte County, CA
• Maquette Museum CA 2009
Organized, directed, collected maquettes from mural artists in CA and OR, set up,
wrote explanation materials and bios based on feedback from artists, created
labels, hung, this Redwoods Mural Society’s mural maquette museum space at an
Edward Jones Investment empty office space in downtown Crescent City, CA;
organized opening reception at which I gave a talk and food and beverages were
served; the museum became a regular stop on the monthly Art Walks
• Program Certificate CA 2010
The Arts Salon I, Art as Business Program— Program Certificate earned in
Crescent City, CA, on September 24, 2010, and it covered the following
coursework: Galleries & Art Directors; Legal Issues; Marketing; Accounting,
Bookkeeping, Recordkeeping, Taxes; Successful Marketing and Selling at Fairs
and Events; Portfolio, Web Development, Web Hosting, Internet Marketing,
Social Media; Five SBDC Business Basics Workshops, CBA counseling sessions;
invited participant with oil painting “Apollo Waiting” in Multimedia Exhibition,
Art in Public Places, Del Norte County Courthouse, September 24-October 29
• Garden Club Chairperson MO 2014
Organized Garden Club at Garden Village, a retirement community in Kansas
City, MO, and assigned Residents raised garden beds considering their handicap
status and gardening abilities; arranged for speakers and wrote and presented
material for monthly club meetings; power-washed and painted raised garden
beds built by Boyscouts; watered and weeded raised garden beds for most of the
Residents as they were unable to consistently; personally purchased and planted
color coordinated bulbs, perennials and shrubs in four raised garden beds that
were unclaimed, and one large plant for the solarium inside, which numerous
plants I also watered and maintained regularly as Residents were unable to do
this consistently; photographed raised garden beds for the planned article for the
monthly newsletter/calendar
• Wall of Honor Photographer MO 2014
Photographed Veterans for the Wall of Honor at Garden Village, a retirement
community in Kansas City, MO; professionally edited photos, ordered prints,
matted and framed them; redesigned framing and matting and presentation of
wall itself; redirected track lighting for optimal lighting coverage; replaced
embellished emailed story about Taps with version by the foremost expert