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Project Tours

Since 2000, I've carried out an ongoing series of art tours on three geographic scales: national, regional, and - increasingly - local.

Averaging about one month per year on the road, I've so far made 140 stops in 38 states and done over 700 small-panel paintings of the varied American landscape.

If you are interested in being a host or arranging an Itinerant Artist Project tour, exhibit, or presentation in your neck of the woods, please contact me. Also check the web pages that discuss hosting and presentations.



Map of IAP stops


IAP TOUR STATISTICS:

miles traveled: approx 30,000
days on the road: 500+ (72 weeks)
total number of stops: 140+
states stopped in: 38
paintings completed on tour: 700+


Tour Itineraries, below, show where the Itinerant Artist Project has been so far.

Take the First Tour: An interactive map lets you explore the full catalog of artwork and journal entries from the initial cross-country art road trip.


Check out some of the project press, including an NBC Today Show feature, or the annotated tour portfolios.



Highway in Iowa

PAST TOUR ITINERARIES

IAP First Tour
March 31 - June 14, 2000

1 Washington DC: March 31-April 2
2 Frenchtown, MD: April 2- 4
3 Chapel Hill, NC II: April 4-6
4 Chapel Hill, NC I: April 7
5 Hot Springs*, NC: April 7-8
(*night spent in my car)
6 Knoxville, TN: April 8-9
7 Nashville, TN: April 9-10
8 Fayetteville, ARK: April 10-13
9 Denton, TX: April 13-14
10 Austin, TX I: April 14-16
11 Austin, TX II: April 16-18
12 Portal, AZ*: (Chiricahua Mtn. Natl Forest): April 18-19
(*night spent in my car)
13 Tucson, AZ: April 19-27
14 Phoenix, AZ: April 27-28
15 Hollywood, CA: April 28-29
16 Watsonville, CA: April 29 - May 2
17 San Francisco, CA: May 2-5
18 Placerville, CA: May 5-8
19 Mono Lake, CA: May 8-11
20 Las Vegas, NV: May 11-13
21 Green River, UT**: May 13-14
(**night spent in motel)
22 Denver, CO: May 14-15
23 Taos, NM: May 15-19
24 Salida, CO: May 19-23
25 Burlingame, KS: May 23-26
26 Decorah, IOWA: May 26-30
27 Stoughton, Wisconsin: May 30- June 2
28 Chicago, IL: June 2- 6
29 East Central IL: June 6-9
30 Ann Arbor, MI: June 9-12
31 Buffalo, NY: June 12-14
return to Rochester: June 14









































First New England Tour
November 4-22, 2000

1 Weston, VT : November 4-8
2 Portsmouth, NH (Newcastle) : November 8-12
3 Bethel, ME : November 14-18
4 Marthaís Vineyard, MA : November 18-21
5 Providence, RI : November 21-22



New England IAP Residency
January 3-16, 2001

Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, NH,
Artist in Residence




New England Tour #2
July 4-10, 2001

1 Litchfield, CT: July 4-7
2 Southfield, MA: July 7-10






New England Tour #3
September 18-October 5, 2001

1 Providence, RI : Sept. 18-19
2 Dover, NH: Sept. 19-21
3 Portsmouth, NH: Sept. 21-24
4 Southwest Harbor, ME: Sept. 24-28
5 Albany Township, ME: Sept. 28-30
6 Blue Mountain Lake, NY: October 1-5




Further Explorations
Location work and short residencies, 2002-2006
  • Western New York (NYSCA Grant) (2002-2003)
  • Western Massachusetts (2004)
  • Chesapeake Bay (2004)
  • Southern Arizona (2004-2005)
  • Nova Scotia, Canada (2006)



2006 IAP Tour
October 12-23, 2006

1 Kingston, NY: Oct. 12-16
2 Brant Lake, NY: Oct. 16-17
3 Hartland, VT : Oct. 17-20
4 Fishers Island, NY: Oct. 20-23


click here for trip report


2007 IAP Tour: Seattle to Rochester
September 18-November 1, 2007

1 Issaquah, WA : Sept. 18-19
2 Seattle, WA: Sept. 19-25
3 Sandpoint, ID: Sept. 25-28
4 Lolo, MT: Sept. 28- Oct. 1
5 Yellowstone Nat'l Park, WY: Oct. 1-2
6 Bozeman, MT: Oct. 2-5
7 Caldwell, ID: Oct. 5-8
8 Salt Lake City, UT: Oct. 8-10; 17-19
9 Cody, WY: Oct. 19-21
10 Sheridan, WY: Oct. 21-23
11 Rapid City, SD: Oct. 23-25*
12 Osseo, WI: Oct. 26-29
13 Chicago, IL: Oct. 29-30
12 Ann Arbor, MI: Oct. 30- Nov. 1

(*night of 25th spent in car, east of Badlands;
morning of 26th traded painting for breakfast at
Vinny's Diner, SE Minnesota, adding one more
state to my IAP list).


click here for trip report


Various Local or Regional Tours and Residencies:

St. Augustine, FL 2007

Rome, NY 2008

New England 2008

New England 2009

Monterey Bay Area 2009

Palo Alto and Napa Valley 2010

Rochester, NY 2010 (see: ROC-ART tour blog)

Brooklyn, NY 2011

Ithaca, NY 2011


Cross-Country #3 (the Anti-Tour)
October 2011

Memphis, TN
Norman, OK
La Junta, CO
Aspen, CO
Gray Mountain, AZ
Phoenix, AZ
Tucson, AZ
El Paso, TX

Great Lakes Tour #1
October-November 2012

Caledon, Ontario
Saginaw, MI
Detroit, MI
Cleveland, OH
Fairport Harbor, OH
Erie, PA


Delaware Shore, April 2013

Short New England Tour, July 2014

Landscape Lottery, Tucson AZ, November 2014


Tour 15
September 18 - December 5, 2015

Fairport Harbor, OH
Champaign-Urbana, IL
St. Louis, MO
Memphis, TN
Norman, OK
Albuquerque, NM
Rockville, UT
Salt Lake City, UT
Lee Vining, CA
Belmont, CA
Burlingame, CA
Santa Cruz, CA
Ojai, CA
Pasadena, CA
Huntington Beach, CA
Santa Monica, CA
Phoenix, AZ
Tucson, AZ
El Paso, TX


Vermont 2016

North Carolina 2017

Rochester Landscape Lottery 2018


(further updates and details coming. see also NEWS /FEATURES archives for various accounts)


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