As a continuation of my lifelong work inthe fusion of art and advocating for thehomeless and otherwise marginalizedpopulations of our society, I now am designing/implementing/running ART WORKS CONTINUUMART WORKS CONTINUUM is a high level finearts studio, set up on a model ofan MFA Studio Arts program butserving artists (all humans, whetherexperienced advanced artists or whomeveris interested) who are or have been homelessor living with other challenging conditions,or their lives being marginalized by society.Hence this could be characterized by being, for example,transgender or any of the LGBT spectrum,or living with HIV or coming out of Corrections,or living with a Mental Diagnosis ranging fromDepression to Schizophrenia.My background:Lifetime experience in the arts and helping profession.40+ years background in photography, oil painting,writing, and outreach work. Authoritative resourceregarding Los Angeles' Skid Row.

Designed and implemented high level studio arts program serving the Homeless in Los Angeles' intense Skid Row Sector, the highest concentration of homeless persons in the United States.The program won Frederick Weisman Grants and an Annenberg Family Grant funding a major exhibition at Pharmaka Gallery, L.A., 2008

Focused on the rediscovery of art accomplishedin California, late 19th and early 20th Century,specifically California Impressionism, California Modernism,California Female Painters.