Clark Hulings and the Art of Work

James D. Balestrieri is the principal of Balestrieri Fine Arts, a consulting firm that specializes in research, writing, and marketing for museums, auctions, and private sales. After a teaching career that included a spell as a Lecturer in Drama at the University of Aberystwyth, Wales, Jim went on to become Director of J.N. Bartfield Galleries in New York, where he worked for twenty years. He wrote the Scottsdale Art Auction catalogues for fifteen years, and has seen some two hundred of his feature essays and reviews published in national arts publications. Jim earned a BA in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University, New York, USA, an MA in English from Marquette University, Wisconsin, USA, an MFA in Playwriting and Theater from Carnegie-Mellon University, Pennsylvania, USA and studied at the American Film Institute, LA. He resides with his family in Cedarburg, Wisconsin, where he currently teaches English at the Milwaukee Area Technical College, writes, produces, and publishes plays and short stories, and continues his work in the arts.