David grew up in rural Middle Tennessee and received a BA in music from Duke University in 1967.  He served in the Peace Corps in Colombia for two years.
 
David attended graduate school at the University of North Carolina and Cornell University in music composition. His music has been performed throughout the East including a commercially recorded performance of his "Reflections on a Park Bench" in Carnegie Hall in 1974.   

David began painting in watercolor at the age of 50.  He has taken workshops with Arnie Westerman and Frank Webb.  David now owns and operates The Picture House, a frame shop/gallery/studio located in Cortland, NY,  where he paints and teaches in addition to framing.  He also serves as the Executive Director of the Cultural Council of Cortland County.

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Affiliations

• Cortland Art League

• Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, Signature Member

• Palette Club of Bethlehem (past member)
  
  
• Ithaca Art Trail
  
  

Awards

• 1997 Purchase Award, First National Bank of Dryden, Centennial Exhibit
  

• 1^st Prize in Watercolor, 2004 Groton, NY, Art Exhibit
  
  
• Mary Garrison Memorial Prize for Watercolor, 2004, 13^th Annual Regional Juried Exhibition, The Cooperstown Art Association
  
  
• Steve McKray Memorial Award, 2005, National Watercolor Oklahoma Exhibit 2005

• Many awards in watercolor and drawing, 1996-2007, Cortland Art League annual membership exhibits

• 3^rd Place Award, H2O Color 2006 online juried exhibit, www.artromgallery.com

 

Regional, National and International Juried Exhibits

• Palette Club of Bethlehem

• Memphis Art Show on the River National Juried Competition

• Cooperstown Art Association

• Fingerlakes Exhibit at the University of Rochester Memorial Museum

• Bethlehem Fine Arts Commission and Palette Club of Bethlehem,  Paint Out in the Bethlehem Steel Mills, 2004

• Allied Artists of America, NYC National Juried Exhibit, November, 2004

• Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, International Juried Exhibition, 2004, 2005

The American Juried Art Salon (online), 2006, 2007


Rhode Island Watercolor Juried Exhibit, 2007


2007 Watercolor USA National Juried Exhibit, Springield Art Museum 

Selected Solo Exhibits

• Blue Frog Coffee House, Cortland, NY

• Alliance Bank, Cortland , NY

• Cortland Free Library, Cortland, NY

• Peck’s Furniture, Cortland, NY

• Homer Free Library, Homer, NY

• Groton Public Library, Groton, NY

• Alternatives Federal Credit Union Lobby, Ithaca, NY

• Pinstriped Pokadots Galleries, Cortland , NY

• Collegetown Bagels, Ithaca, NY

• Fabio’s Restaurant, Cortland, NY
  
  

Teaching Experience

• 1996-1998 Watercolor Classes at SUNY Cortland Center for Lifelong Learning

• 1999-2001 Watercolor class at Cortland BOCES

1999 Five part lecture series on 19^th and 20^th Century American Watercolorists at the Blue Frog Coffeehouse

• 2000-present    Weekly Watercolor classes at The Picture House

• 2006 Watercolor Classes at the Center for the Arts in Homer, NY
  
  
• 2006 One day Workshop Instructor, " Time Management for Artists," Cortland, NY

• 2006-present    Instructor, Groton Painting Class