THREE GENERATIONS OF ARTISTS

Patrick is Professor of Philosophy of Education at Texas A&M University and a summer lecturer at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.  He also teaches in Santiago de Chile occasionally where the intense landscapes of the Andes, Patagonia, and Chilean coast shape his aesthetic sensibilities. In 2019 her received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Educational Research Association. He is a former President of the Arts-Based Educational Research Association and the author of the internationally translated Curriculum Development in the Postmodern Era (Routledge, 2013). Philosophical and cultural metaphors permeate his canvases.

Joshua Slattery has been interested in art from a young age. He graduated from John B. Connally High in Pflugerville, and he played hockey at the Chaparral Ice Rink. Patrick and Joshua lived in Cleveland, Ohio, in the 1990s. Patrick served as a docent at the Cleveland Museum of Art; Joshua played hockey in Oberlin, Elyria, and Shaker Heights. Joshua works in oil, acrylic, and found objects on canvas and brings the energy and finesse of hockey to his work. Patrick and Joshua are both strongly influenced by Georgia O'Keeffe. You can read more about our connections to O'Keeffe's paintings in Abiquiu, New Mexico, in my artist statement.