AboutMe
"I was born in Montreal, Quebec!" is what Mark routinely says when asked where he's from. Though he has fond memories of his childhood city, and all the other fantastic places he's lived, he now calls Toronto home.
He graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in art history, and continued his studies of iconography and symbolism in Seattle, at the University of Washington, where he earned his Master's.
Mark brought his strong writing and skill for documentation to the University of Washington's own Henry Art Gallery, where he worked closely with the curators of Education and Collections. During his time in the Pacific northwest, he also devoted some 'quality time' to working for a large fine furniture retailer, where he continued to learn about very beautiful objects first hand. He also published his MA thesis, Crucifying the Other: Images of the female martyr in nineteenth-century art, during this period.
The call of the Atlantic shore was strong in those days, and Mark was drawn to New York, where he worked with one of the world's leading galleries for modern and contemporary ceramic art, Garth Clark Gallery (now Clark + Delvecchio) where his contributions included everything from handling fragile art, and creating logistics for exhibitions and art transport, to technical writing, and content development.
Mark fine tuned his writing and communication skills through postgraduate work in Technical Communications. He has used these skills to inform, and persuade in many contexts: tech writing, social media, advertising. Currently, Mark works in an administrative capacity for the office of Applied Research and Innovation at Seneca College in Toronto, where he facilitates applied research, writes grants, and manages projects as part of a team devoted to making a difference.