1979 Wind Challenge Artist
Rick was trained as an educator, a craftsman and an artist. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Education and a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture. He also studied stone carving in Pietrasanta, Italy. As an advocate for the arts, Rick initiated the establishment of the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts in 1978. Rick is a founding member of the international artists consortium, SYNE and has exhibited in Sweden, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, and the USA. He was chosen to travel to China as an official Delaware Ambassador of the Arts in 1998. Rick is an instructor at the Carving Studio in Vermont has been an invited artist to several sculpture symposiums. In 2009 he received the Christi Award for Outstanding Achievement as an Artist and was awarded the Masters Fellowship Grant in Visual Arts from the Delaware Division of the Arts in 2011.
