Stuart Gold studied at UC Davis with artists such as Wayne Thiebaud, Roland Peterson and Roy Deforest. In 1980, he received his masters degree from SF State University in Printmaking. In 1985, after making a living for a number of years as a traditional painter/printmaker, he discovered an interest in computer generated imagery and animation and subsequently became one of the first generation of artists/non-technical programmers to be actively involved in the production of computer animation and graphics for the video industry. Hired by Pacific Bell Corporate Television in 1986 to create graphics and animations for in-house and satellite programming, he went on to be one of two artists/animators creating work for Hewlett-Packard Media Services and finally in 1988 became head of computer graphics and animation for Tandem Computers and Tandem Television Network. In 1989, he started Shadow and Light Productions specializing in industrial and broadcast computer graphics, bio-medical animation, and the creation of Forensic Animation and multimedia. After years in the computer graphics field, he has come full circle, built himself a studio in the foothills south of Grass Valley California. When in the Peace corps at age 23, Stuart Gold decided to be an artist instead of a doctor. However, before he left the Peace Corps he found the last outbreak of small pox in the Kaffa province of Southwestern Ethiopia. His chapter on this adventure appears in the book, Eradicating Smallpox in Ethiopia.Gayle Peterson, LCSW, PhD was married to Stuart Gold for 30 years. She is a psychotherapist, author of several books on family and childbearing and has served on many websites as a family therapist. Her website won an award from the American Association Marriage and Family Therapy for benefit to families. Her work can be viewed at: www.askdrgayle.com
