micpowell
Profile
Growing up in rural Connecticut Valley, I very quickly gravitated toward Drawing & Painting especially after winning regional art contests as early as age 11. My career choice became thus somewhat obvious, so after high school I began study formally at Paire School of Art where my greater interests centered on Fine Arts backed up with bread and butter courses in Technical Illustration & Drafting.
Frustrated by being called an Elitist and suffering the shock of plagiarism. after a time and short on funds I left school to join Action Vista, and do my part for the Great Society, in those liberal years. Thus immediately following a double term to resolve my angst I returned to my education but this time majoring in Multi Media Photography at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, pledged to a social commitment specializing in Photo-Journalism & Social Documentary.
After my studies and in light of this country’s declined interest in social reform, I joined the usual throngs of starving artists doing other work for income but at the same time studying Western Chancery from an etymological or evolutionary point of view, rather than the notion of being expressive or creative associated with the modern school of calligraphy. This too proved not the ideal approach to the quest for income, often enough led to controversy, but eventually I did gained the attention of regional scribal societies, and first honors at juried exhibits for the Smithsonian National Postal Museum.
To this day I still find myself doing odd jobs from teaching Chess & Go to managing internet cafes, none the less I refresh myself by hiking the metro area in search of every photographic adventure I can find. This to continue an exploration of myself and the world around me. Hope that you can enjoy the muse.
Groups
micpowell is a member of # 1 ARTISTS OF REDBUBBLE , Complex Simplicity of Art, Fall in the North-East USA, ! 100% !, "All parks", "Mornings & Evenings -- Sunbeams & Storms" 1 photo per 24 hrs; 3 drawings or paintings per 24 hrs, "Real" Life Photography (2 per day), * New Jersey Scenery, 5D Mark II, A Photographer's Craft , A Place To Call Home, After Dark, Americas ~ Rural, Urban, Wild, Free, Anger Management, Anything and Everything FUN, Architectural Details, Architectural Photography, Architecture and cityscapes, At the edge, Behind the Mask, Black and White Photography, Bridges, Canon DSLR (One Image Per Day & A Canon Camera Must Be In The Description Before It's Accepted), Cee's Fun Artsy Friends, Cityscapes and City Skylines ~ ALL THINGS "CITY" , Colour Me Vibrant Red!, Contemporary Architecture, Dawn and Dusk Light, Day Hikes , Descriptions, DSLR Users Only - 1/24 - Camera & Lens In Description Please., EncausticNow!, Everyday Life, Fireworks, For the love of Canon - 2 Images per day with type of Canon camera used, Fountains, Wrought Iron & Gates etc., Freedom to Shine, Glitter!, Going Coastal (2 art per day), HALLOWEEN, Humour Captured, Italy and all Things Italian , Japanfluence, Jersey City, Just Fun, Landscape Photography, Light and Reflection 1/24, Light In The Darkness, Neon Heaven, New Jersey - What's Your Exit?, New York City, Night Photography, People and Portraiture Photography, Photo-Zen, Photographers of Redbubble (2 per 24hr, Camera info added before it will be accepted!!), Photography Challenge Group, Purple Passion Gallery. 2 per day , Reflections in Building Windows 2 per day, Religious Art & Photography, Safe Haven, Sepia Only, Sets of Two, Skyscrapers, Solo Exhibition, Soul reflections, Statues and Such, Street Photography and Photojournalism, Sunrise, Sunset, Tease Me Baby!, The Birds, The Urban Environment, The World, Theme Parks Around the World, Unique Buildings Of The World, United States, Vibrant and Vivid Color, Voices for Animals, Which Way - walkways, pathways, stairways, and roadways and Woman Appreciation.
