Lester Dore:  

Life After I graduated I spent a summer working on a pipeline construction job my Dad, who worked then for Williams Brothers, got me into. I started at TU.I did well enough my freshman year, passing all my courses but wishing I could major in art. In my sophomore year, I did, but dropped out in the second semester and moved in with the local beatniks in a house across the street from the campus. This was the beginning of a career in seeking what the lurid blurb on the cover of "On the Road" called "a search for Experience and Sensation". 25 years later, after numerous adventures in Chicago, San Francisco, Europe, North Africa, a long stint at homesteading in rural Wisconsin, and responsibilities to an ex-wife and three children, I returned to academia to complete my degree work. I earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1991 with an emphasis in printmaking. Since then, however, I have worked mostly as a graphic artist, and am currently employed by the UW Madison School of N...Expand for more