Shawnee Mission East High School, Prairie Village, Kansas, graduated 1974

Kansas City Art Institute, 1974-75, Foundations program taught by Michael Meyers

Pima College, Tucson, Arizona, 1977-79, Associate of Arts degree in Cultural Anthropology

New York Art Students League, (Summer) 1979, drawing and sculpture courses

Johnson Atelier, now in Mercerville, New Jersey. 1979-80. A technical work/study apprenticeship teaching all aspects of; the history of, and modern, state-of-the-art, lost wax investment (and sand cast) art-bronze casting techniques.
Participated in the casting of monumental works of are by the following artists:
Georgia O'Keefe, George Segal, Isaac Witkin, Seward Johnson, Andrew Pitynsky

Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, 1980-81, (Ceramics taught by Don Bendel)