John Banasiak:
CLASS OF 1964
Ascension Grade SchoolClass of 1964
Harvey, IL
John's Story
After eight years at the Ascension Reformatory I went to the Thornton HS Boomer Depository with the majority of my other friends and inmates, where my Art teachers pushed me to apply to go on to the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Chicago instead of working on the line at Maramont Mufflers where I thought I was destined to work after graduation.. With a full scholarship to go I had a great time in Chicago, went to school at the University of Krakow, Poland between my BFA and MFA and taught Photography in the Art Department at New York State Oswego for a year before doing alternative process photo workshops a...Expand for more
t Auckland University and Canterbury University in New Zealand. In 1980 I took a position in the College of Fine Art at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion where I have been teaching ever since and am now heading into my 41st year there. I married Carol in 1989 and have two sons, Satchmo and Buster, We are in the process of planting our annual gardens of flowers and veggies thinking that we will have a great harvest though deep down we know that we are really just filling the back and side yards for the deer and racoon summer buffet. Hopefully they will leave us a couple of tomatoes. All the best to everyone.
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