DIRECTOR: BARRY TAGRIN

BARRY TAGRIN: Painter and Writer (Program Director): Masters Degree in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. His varied and substantial teaching career began with the establishment of the Greenwich Painters and Writers Workshop in San Francisco, and has included over the years faculty positions with Texas A&M University, the University of Texas at Austin, Rikkyo University in Japan and the University of Navarre in Pamplona, Spain.

He has exhibited his paintings worldwide, read and lectured internationally with the Fulbright Commission, and held classes and workshops in Poetry in venues as diverse as Japan, Malaysia, Czech Republic, Egypt and Mexico. His latest book of poems is entitled Collage of the Soul and is available now on Amazon.com