About me
BIO BELOW WRITTEN BY PROFESSOR EMERITUS DAVID ELIAS, CULLED FROM COMMENTS BY DEANS, COLLEAGUES AND STUDENTS :
Professor Bagnolo is a Cultural Anthropologist, Architectural designer, painter, writer, novelist, and theologian. As a child prodigy, abed with polio for almost two years, with a...
BIO BELOW WRITTEN BY PROFESSOR EMERITUS DAVID ELIAS, CULLED FROM COMMENTS BY DEANS, COLLEAGUES AND STUDENTS :
Professor Bagnolo is a Cultural Anthropologist, Architectural designer, painter, writer, novelist, and theologian. As a child prodigy, abed with polio for almost two years, with an off the charts IQ, reading at the graduate level by 5th grade, offered an opportunity to skip three grades at age 8/9, his parents allowed only a one grade skip, lest he graduated primary school at age 10, high school at age 14 and college at age 18. Such a leap forward would have been fine for a Wunderkind, but not so much for a boy either socially or athletically. Despite the Paralytic polio, he became a fine athlete in basketball, flag football, softball, baseball, Volleyball, Tennis and Badminton, though he had to have his ankles taped until age 16 so weakened were they by the polio. He was offered Major League contracts in baseball, always turned down by his parents, ending always by his mother telling scouts; “He is going to be a Professor, Doctor, or Architect, not a baseball player…â€
He was a recipient of an Art Institute scholarship at age 11, Ford Foundation Fellowships in Anthropology, Architecture and Painting and a merit scholarship in art at CSU, and was appointed a Graduate Research Assistant position in college with occasional lecture privileges in physical and cultural Anthropology/anatomy.
He holds a triple bachelor's degree in Painting and Drawing, Anthropology, Architectural Design Advertising. MA's in Cultural Anthropology, Painting and more. He majored in Architecture at the University of Illinois Chicago Navy Pier, Architecture and Art at Wright College, Art and Advertising at The American Academy of Art, and Anthropology, Architectural Exhibition Design and Painting at CSU and Goddard Graduate shool
He was mentored by the great, world renowned, Lothar Witteborg Chief of the Department of Exhibition Design at Chicago’s Filed Museum of Natural History, where he did research with full access to every department at the museum. He studied painting with Wm. Mosby, Vandenbrock Water Color with the peerless Irv Shapio, and figure painting by Salvatore Salla.
He did a double Master’s Degree at Goddard College, in Cultural Anthropology and Art.
After being tenured he taught: Architecture, anthropology, Theology, advertising, painting and drawing, entrepreneuring and Creative Profit Making. He produced a star-studded Music festival, had a radio talk show in Chicago, and a cable TV show in the suburbs. Now, retired from Teaching, he paints, writes, and pursues other ventures.
He was recently inducted into The American Academy of Art Chicago Hall of Fame: http://www.aaart.edu/
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Thanks for visiting, Peter. Congratulations on the exhibition! Sounds nerve-wracking, but exciting. Best wishes on your success.