My studies at NAU were in the following fields: the fine arts, art history, typography, and design/visual communications. Instructed by notable teachers including Tom Knight, Bruce Horn, and the late Richard Beasley. Other art studies included ceramics, sculpture, intaglio (Printmaking), commercial illustration, life drawing, painting, art history, typography and graphic design (visual communications). Additional studies included anthropology, paleontology, philosophy, psychology, zoology, history, and more.