Don is a life-long member of the Cortland community.  He received a BA from SUNY Cortland and holds an MA, a.b.d., from Case Western Reserve University.  Currently, Don works at Cortland County Mental Health as an Intensive Case Manager. Don came to the arts later in his life and has studied with Russel Spillman, John Jessiman and Alan Mooney.  His work is an effort to represent classical Eastern techniques within contemporary life. The formal presentation of stone, the ceramic vessel or bonsai is appreciated as a remembrance – a reminding factor, in the serious struggle to become . . .