About the Author

Jon Meyer graduated from the University of Vermont, where he studied poetry with Ghita Pickoff Orth, art with Ed Owre, and learned of Avataric advents. He then pursued grad studies at Rutgers (MFA) and Pratt Institute (MID). His writing has appeared in The Village Voice, ARTnews, ARTS, New Art Examiner, Visions Quarterly, CRITS, Q, Dialog, Art New England, and other publications. As Department Chair, at University of Maryland/ Towson U, Jon Meyer led a small team producing a film about one of his students, Dan Keplinger. This film, King Gimp won the Oscar at the 2000 academy awards and appeared on HBO numerous times thereafter.

He has had his art work in a number of international touring exhibitions, including “Outward Bound: American Art At The Brink Of The 21st Century.” This group of artists representing the US, included Rauschenberg, Dine, Lichtenstein, Flack, Ringgold, Grooms, Fish, Close, and Christo, sponsored by the Mobil Foundation. Meyer has given public lectures and workshops across the US, Europe, and Asia.

His work has been exhibited in over 60 solo and group exhibitions (including 18 museum exhibitions) and has his work in 20 museum and public collections in North America, Asia, Europe, and Africa. He has received 12 research grants/ sponsored projects, including a National Endowment for the Arts grant. Meyer has served in administrative capacities in academe (department chair, dean, chief development officer). He was previously Vice President of the Independent Publishers of New England (IPNE). Currently, he is Vice President of the League of Vermont Writers.

His love for Vermont’s mountain peaks and seasons has inspired him since he was a boy. These helped him discover the inner reaches of Vermont and beyond. The thunderous silence of Vermont woods in winter is especially uplifting. He has been writing poetry for over 40 years, and lives in Vermont with his wife Deborah.