He taught elementary school in New York City for twenty-three years. A gallery exhibit of his work hung at the prestigious Roger Tory Peterson Institute in Jamestown, NY in the summer of 1999. The exhibit opened in April 2001 and will hang for one year. More than 100 photo-illustrated feature articles have appeared in a wide variety of publications worldwide. And he is a popular lecturer, having presented more than 250 slide programs during the past 15 years.
Art now photographs, travels, speaks, and teaches extensively in North America.