Dan is a gifted teacher as well as an artist.  He loves to share knowledge and enrich lives.  Although he taught in Alaska for a year, most of his teaching career was in Michigan. In 1965 & 1966 Dan studied commercial art at Ferris State University.  In 1968 he studied art at Lansing Community College.  With a major in history and a minor in art, he graduated from Central Michigan University in 1971 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Secondary Education.  He then earned his masters in history in 1979 from Eastern Michigan University. Dan taught social studies at the Wyandotte Public Schools in Wyandotte, Michigan from 1972 to 1977 and at King Cove City Schools in Alaska to students in grades 9 through 12 from 1977 through 1978.  He also taught history, elementary arts and high school art history at the Gross Ile Township Schools from 1980 to 1997. At the Crawford AuSable Schools in 1998 he taught special education classes.

Dan on Cooking Cooking and art have things in common.  Most of us like food, and some of us like to cook.  Dan enjoys cooking man style dishes  and relates some of the techniques to his art. Dan on Art & Etching Etching has been a large part of Dan's work and he shares some of that background with us. Dan on Teaching Dan relates to his fellow students and talks about his experience and the art of teaching.