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Bill Thierfelder is the creative force behind Making Wings.
Winner of the 2008 Joseph Burger Humanitarian Award (Dowling College, Oakdale, NY), Bill is an artist, photographer, writer, lecturer, and motivational speaker who currently lives in Bayport, Long Island.
>> As an artist, Bill Thierfelder has a commitment to the art and craft of drawing, employing various media, including crayon, pencil, graphite, inks, digital photos, and oil pastels. His work has been shown at galleries on Long Island and, since 2007, at Monkdogz Urban Art in Chelsea (Manhattan).
MONKDOGZ FEATURED ARTIST WEBSITE: http://www.monkdogz.com/chelseagallery/artistart/Thierfelder/artist_thierfelder.htm
BAREBRUSH FEATURED ARTIST WEBSITE: http://www.barebrush.com/featured.php?artist_id=109
>> As a writer, Thierfelder publishes under the name T. Richard Williams. His poetry and short stories have been published in such diverse venues as Wild Violet, Aphelion, Shadeworks, Petroglyph, American Poets and Poetry, and Lucid Stone. Two collections of verse, How the Dinosaurs Devoured the Humans and The Letter S, and a volume of short stories titled Ten are currently available at Amazon.com.
LINKS TO WRITING: http://www.makingwings.net/writing.html
>> As a social activist, he founded THE FOOD ANGELS PROJECT to raise funds for Long Island AIDS organizations:
http://www.newsli.com/2007/12/12/angels-from-dowling-college-make-a-difference-for-world-aids-day/
>> Dr. Bill also lectures regularly on a variety of arts and humanities topics at local libraries and at conferences. As a motivational speaker, he introduces people to the concept of deliberate living. http://www.makingwings.net/makingwings/deliberateliving.html
>> He is also a member of and donor to The Jessup Society at The American Museum of Natural History and the Encore Society at The Metropolitan Opera. In addition, Dr. Bill supports a wide range of charitable organizations, especially those devoted to preserving Earth's environment and to supporting children-at-risk around the world.
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