Ted was raised on a dairy farm in SE Pennsylvania and sketched the countryside around him. He graduated from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. in Art Education and worked for 7 years as a graphic designer in New York City. After completing the Foundation Year in Anthroposophical Studies at Emerson College, England he studied Speech Formation and German at the Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland, for 2 years. He completed a 3-year Painting Training, according to Rudolf Steiner's methods, with Beppe Assenza at the Goetheanum Painting School in 1976, (ERES Master of Fine Arts Equivalent) and was a teaching assistant in the school from 1975 to 1978. For 3 years he was employed as a painting therapist at Sonnhalde Schulheim Curative Home, Gempen, Switzerland. Then he directed the Arts Program, a year-long morning course in drawing and painting at Rudolf Steiner College in Fair Oaks, California from 1982 to 2003. He taught art at Davis Waldorf School from 2003 to 2005 and continues teaching at the Steiner College and around the country.

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