Jon Peterson, Founder
w3art, the award-winning online service for fine artists, is the creation of artist Jon Peterson of Los Angeles, who founded the site in 1995.
Jon has a bachelors degree in Aeronautical engineering and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Otis/Parson School of Fine Arts. He has been a practicing artist for 25 years and has exhibited his works all over the U.S.
As an active participant in the emergence of the Los Angeles art scene, Jon has helped provide exposure for thousands of artists. In the evolution of the Downtown Artists District, he has also developed many factory conversions as live/work facilities for hundreds of artists. Peterson has served on the boards of several non-profit arts organizations, including Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Inner City Arts, and the Los Angeles River Arts and Business Association (LARABA).
A founder of the Downtown Arts Development Association (DADA), Peterson served as President of DADA from 1993- 96. Just as the purpose of DADA is to promote and sell the works of fine artists in Los Angeles, w3art was created to provide exposure for the works of all artists worldwide, using the power of the World Wide Web.
Jon lives in Los Angeles with his wife Tanarat and son Raymond.
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Michael Wright, Senior Advisor
Michael Wright is a painter working in both traditional and electronic mediums. He has exhibited digital works at the Kellogg University Art Gallery, California State Polytechnic University, the @ Cafe, New York City, the Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles, the Municipal Gallery in Hollywood, the Riverside Community College Gallery, the University Gallery, California State University at Chico, the Downey Museum of Art, Downey Calif., the Sam Francis Gallery in Santa Monica, Fine Arts Gallery, California State University Los Angeles, On Line Gallery CyberArts International, Pasadena, Cal., The Site Gallery, Los Angeles and Downtown Lives in Los Angeles. He currently has digital works on tour as part of the 9th National Computer Art Invitational of Eastern Washington State University.
Michael's work appears currently in a new book "The Computer in the Visual Arts" by Anne Morgan Spalter of Brown University, published by Addison Wesley . The book "is a seminal contribution in how computers are used in art and design, integrating theory, examples, concepts underlying all the major types of graphics software, explaining the principles and practices that artists, designers, illustrators, and photographers simply must understand to take full advantage of this dynamic, visual medium. The Computer in the Visual Arts1 gives the whole picture; pioneer artists, technical principles, artistic choices, creative uses and misuses, all with the freshness of the hands-on practitioner." His digital works are also published in Linda Jacobs' book Cyberarts: Exploring Art & Technology, Wired, Micro Publishing News and Computer Graphics & Applications. He and his work have been featured on Agent X, Television Tokyo and Patricia Shields on Art in New York.
Wright is currently an adjunct associate professor in the Digital Media Program at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. Wright has instructed for the Institute for Teaching and Learning, California State University Long Beach. He is the recipient of the Otis Award of Excellence in Arts Education and has also been a Guest Artist in Communication Studies at California State University at Los Angeles introducing video and the computer. He was Guest Artist at California State University Summer Arts, Computer workshop for Artists and designers, Humbolt State University, Arcata, Calif. He formally served on the Siggraph Education Committee and the Siggraph Traveling Exhibition Committee. Wright also instructs on a regular basis for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts.
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