Episode 3: David Modler

David R. Modler is an artist, researcher, and professor originally from Baltimore, Maryland. He earned his Bachelor of Science and Master of Education in Art Education from Towson State University and his Master of Fine Arts in painting from James Madison University. He currently works as an Associate Professor of Art in the Department of Contemporary Art at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia.David creates mixed media work and assembles the work into site-responsive installations, and the visual journal is a key component of his work. As an off-shoot of his journal work and as a way to explore creative collaborations, he has teamed up with good friend Samuel Peck to create the tet[R]ad: Draw and Play Here project where they facilitate one-on-one journal exchanges.