Education: 1971 MFA-University of California, Davis
1962-1965 Pasadena College, Pasadena, CA
1967 BA-University of California, Davis
1970 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, MN

Teaching: 1971- Professor of Fine Arts-Painting, University of Colorado, Boulder
1969-70 Teaching Assistant, University of California, Davis

Selected Awards
1979 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
University of Colorado Faculty Fellowship
American Academy of Arts and Letters, Hassam Fund Purchase Award 
1985 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
1986 Ucross Foundation Residency
1988 University of Colorado Faculty Fellowship
West Publishing: "Art and the Law" Purchase Award
1993 West Publishing: "Art and the Law" Purchase Award
1995 Colorado Council on the Arts CO Visions Recognition Award
National Endowment for the Arts Grant
1996 West Publishing: “Art and the Law” Purchase Award
2002 University of Colorado Faculty Fellowship

Statement: "Rightly of wrongly, I have always held a working assumption that art and nature are inextricably bound and must have sprung from parallel convulsions. The one begat the other, the other begat the one and both predate the chicken and the egg.'
I was born in western Idaho in the great outback that it is our conciet to call "the west". This is no garden but like too many others, I love it. I love the whoe dry, forbidding, bewildering and hauntingly beautiful place. However, I have a lovers quarrel with it, or rather with what we have made of it. The way we treat the land can be read as a barometer ofor our character and it is so void of trees and humidity here that little is hidden. When we err, it glares and what we see, looking honestly, is as likely to sober us as it is to dazzle us. Beauty and honesty are uneasy bedfellows. Still, I an trying to make honest pictures that are also beautiful because this is still the landscape of hope."--Chuck Forsman

prints by Chuck Forsman