April 8th and 9th 2016- The ECDC show
at the Best Western in St. Michaels MD. Don't miss out on a great time. Bar-B-Cue Saturday afternoon.
May 7th 2016- I'll be
attending the Hdg decoy show for the day Saturday. Hope to have a good time in a classic decoy town.
Sept. 24th-25th 2016 I will be set up on the
park beach for the 34th annual Tuckerton Decoy show. One of the best shows in the country and a great time for all ages!
Oct.12th
+19th 2014- I will be teaching an Advanced carving class at the Tuckerton Seaport. This years class wil be a carvers
choice of a Wigeon Hen or Drake. You can find out more information by visiting the Seaport's Website on my
links page.
Nov. 11th and 12th 2014- I will be at the Easton
Waterfowl festival Tailgate Swap. A nice time to get a crack at collectable decoys before the weekend! A very popular event
with carvers and collectors alike.
NEWS+ARTICLES
Feb 2005- Best of show Honors at annual Toms
River Decoy Show.
Sept 2005 - New Jersey Decoy collectors featured
"Alive" carver at Fall kick off meeting.
Jan 2006 - Drake Wood Duck choosen for the
2006 NJ Waterfowl Stamp. Stamp released August 2006. See NJ duck stamp page for more information.
Feb 2006- Had fun Judging the Delaware
River birds at the Toms River show !
Sept 2006- Article written by Allen
Linkchorst covering some of my work, featured in "Decoy Magazine" ( May-June
2006 cover date) Click link below to read the article.
Sept 23+24 2006- Enjoyed judging the
Green-wings at this years Tuckerton show!
Dec 2006- Green-Wing Teal pair on display in
the Marshelder Gun Club at the Tuckerton Seaport. Wood Duck pair on display as part of the Duck Stamp exhibit in the
Main Seaport Museum.
January 2007- One of my Curly-neck Black
ducks featured in Rod Taylor's "Fresh from The Bench " series in "Hunting and Fishing collectables " magazine.
May 2007- Crow sculpture featured in the May-June 2007 "Hunting
and Fishing collectables" magazine.
May 2007- Profiled in "Decoy Magazine's" story
about the Tuckerton Seaport.
Sept-2007- Enjoyed being one of the judges
for this years Delaware river contest at Tuckerton!
Sept-Oct 2007- My Huck Caines
inspired Drake mallard featured in Fresh From the bench series in "Hunting and Fishing Collectables" magazine.Click link below to read the article.
Oct 7th + 14th 2007- I enjoyed teaching the
advanced carving class at the Tuckerton Seaport. It was focused on techniques and processes used in carving one of my
favorites, the pintail drake.
January 2008- Best of Show honors at
the 2008 Toms River-Ocean County Art and Decoy show.
Spring 2008- I was honored to participate
in the National Endowment for the Arts "Artist in Residence" program. I worked in conjunction with the Tuckerton
Seaport in this project making a drake Wood Duck that is now part of the Seaports permanant collection.
June 2008- A Black Duck featured in Ron
Koch's article "Another View on Decoy Collecting" in Hunting and Fishing Collectibles Magazine.
January 2009-
I was honored to be selected as the "Featured Artist" at the 25th annual Toms River art and decoy Show.
May-June 2009- My story of "DUCKY" published
in
"Hunting and Fishing Collectibles" magazine. Click link below to read "DUCKY".
October 2009- "World class collection
is Just Ducky"
July-August 2010- The story of my Spring Turkey
hunt using my own Turkey hen decoy featured in the "Turkey Talk" Department of "Hunting & Fishing Collectibles Magazine"
You can read the article by clicking this link.
September 25th 2010- Select
peices will be available at New Jersey Audubon's "Sluice Creek Gallery" Located on the premises of the Cape May Bird Observatory
in Goshen NJ. You can contact Gallery Director, Sue Zipper @ 1-609-861-0700 for more details.
May 26th 2011- http://sjfolklife.blogspot.com/
Reasearcher Tom Carrol's Blog about Southern New Jersey folk life and his
visit gunning with Sean Sutton and myself. Some nice pics here.
July 2011- A pair of my Green-wing teal and some
of my photography featured in Decoy Magazine article by Dick Gove on " New Jersey Teal" You can read the
article below.
September 2011- The story about the creation of my trophy Weakfish carving
featured in "Hunting & Fishing Collectibles Magazine" You can read the story by clicking on the link below.
February 2012- One of my Hooded merganser decoys and
a friends Lab pup pictured in "Gun Dog magazine." You can see the picture by clicking the link below.
April 2012- Barnegat Bay chapter of Delta Waterfowler's
"Carver Of The Year" For 2012.
August 2014- Pleased to be working with the Ward
Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts in "Carving out Future Decoy Makers" Project. I will be guiding six
local carvers in making a decoy for the Ward Museum Show in October.
February 2015-
A pair of my black ducks Featured in the cover photo of Of " A Primitive Place" magazine. The issue covered the
top 10 collectibles for 2015.
