TED KATZ studied painting at The Art Students’ League in New York, The Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris, and Harvard University, from which he earned a doctorate. For ten years, he served as Chief of the Division of Education at The Philadelphia Museum of Art and has directed programs for numerous national arts organizations, including The National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities and The Smithsonian Institution. The paintings of Ted Katz are represented in university, museum, and private collections in the United States and have been widely exhibited in the U.S. and Europe. He has recently written two collections of short stories, The Studio Within and When the Rice Ripens, concerned with creativity and becoming.