Outdoor Sign created for the International Military CISM matches, hosted by the United States Army Marksmanship Unit, Fort Benning, Georgia by artist Tom Whipple
Woodrow Thomas Whipple is an American artist, educator, author, and chef.
Background
Ethnicity:
Father was of English/France Descent and Mother was Russian.
Woodrow Thomas was born on 5 June in 1944 in Brattleboro, Vermont, United States. The son of Howard Woodrow Whipple and Anna Mastaler Whipple.
Education
1. Two years, Columbus College, Columbus Georgia - Associate Degree in Art
2. Two years, Columbus School of Art, Columbus Georgia - Fine Arts Degree
3. Two years, The Famous Artist School, Westport, Connecticut - Commercial Arts Degree
4. Continuing Education, The School of Art Institution of Chicago, Chicago Illinois - Commercial Art
5. Dynamic Graphics, Peoria Illinois - Continuing Education Credits for Commercial and Multi-Media presentations
6. Twenty years varies Department of Defense training programs related to Art, MultiMedia, Supervisor, and Human Resources (TDY (Temporary duty yonder) – temporary duty assignment sent to different civilian schools for additional learning depending on special requirements).
1965 - 1971 US Army, 11th Special Force Group (Airborne), 1st Special Forces
1971 - 1974 - Department of Defense, GS-3 Illustrator, 3rd Army Printing Plant, Fort Benning, Georgia, United States.
1974 - 1978 - Gallery Owner, Art Instructor, Artist, Le Gallery, Columbus, Georgia, United States.
1978 - 1995 - Department of Defense - GS-6 Illustrator, 3rd Army Training Aids, Large Arts, Fort Benning, Georgia, United States.
1978 - 1995 - Department of Defense - GS-7 Illustrator, United States Army Marksmanship Unit, Fort Benning, Georgia, United States.
1978 - 1995 - Department of Defense - GS-9 & 11, Visual Information Specialist, Publications Department, Fort Benning, Georgia, United States.
1995 - 1999 - Art Instructor, Art Consultant, Graphic Designer, Artist, Columbus, Georgia, United States.
1999 - 2015 - Supervisor/Instructor, Digital Design & Communication Class, Education Department Head, Georgia Department of Corrections, Pulaski State Prison, Hawkinsville, Georgia, United States.
2015 - Present - Adjunct Instructor, Design & Media Production Specialist Program, Central Georgia Technical College, Warner Robins, GA and Pulaski State Prison, Hawkinsville, Georgia, United States.
2000 - Present - Owner, Founder BackYard Woody's, LLC, Bonaire, Georgia, United States.
Author (illustrator): Wing Ding Party Book. Painting, Gunboat Chattahoochee (Purchase award for Georgia Bicentenial Top 10 Georgia Artist, 1975), Savannah Pier (Purchase award for permanet exhibition collection in the Bradley Museum of Art, 1975), exhibit, CISM XXIV Internation Shooting Championships Norway (Outstanding Contibution, 1985).
Membership
Georgia Correctional Education Association
The Society for Georgia Archaeology
Lower Chattahoochee Archeology
Middle Georgia Culinary Association
American Culinary Federation
2005 - 2006
Sports Car Club of America
1966 - 1967
United States Power Squadron
1987 - 1988
Columbus Artist Guild
Interests
Fine art, photography, cooking, travel.
Connections
Woodrow married to Tina Sue Huggins on 31 December in 1992 (divorced on 24 April in 1996); Married to Evelyn Crowley on 9 May in 1967 (divorced on 29 June in 1988); They have a child Lori Michelle Pate.