SELECTED BIOGRAPHY RELATED TO JAPANESE ART AND CLOISONNE (see also, the LECTURES tab)                     

1960s Yale University, Bachelor and Doctoral degrees
1972   First trip to Japan, as black-belt member of American Tae Kwon Do (Korean karate) exhibition team
1990   Second trip to Japan
1992   Begin Japanese art collection
1993   Begin focus on Japanese cloisonné-enamels
1998   First research trip to Japan, followed by annual research trips, including oral history project (1998-present)
2002   First lectures on Japanese art -- see LECTURES tab
2003   Begin work on book
2003   Publication of "N. Nogawa Bronze Company and its Mark," in Daruma, The Magazine of Japanese Art.  For publications, see PUBLICATIONS tab
2004   Member of the Board, Japanese Art Society of America, Inc. (2004-2012) www.japaneseartsoc.org/
2010   Publication of The Art of Japanese Cloisonné Enamel: History, Techniques and Artists, 1600 to the Present
2011   Publication of Book Review of Japanese Cloisonné Enamels: The Steven W. Fisher Collection, by Robert Mintz, in Impressions 32, The Journal of the Japanese Art Society of America
2012   Wrote and edited cloisonné object entries in Deco Japan: Art & Culture 1920 - 1945 (Art Services International, Alexandria, 2012)   
2012-3   Examples from the Schneider Collection included in the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibitions "Designing Nature: The Rinpa Aesthetic in Japanese Art" (illustrated in the exhibition catalog) and "Birds in the Art of Japan" 
2016 Publication of "Wired, Worn and (W)rare: Enamel Netsuke--Cloisonné and Champlevé" in International Netsuke Society Journal