Background
Donald Lee Neal was born on August 4, 1948, in Aurora, Missouri, United States.
University of Minnesota
Donald Lee Neal was born on August 4, 1948, in Aurora, Missouri, United States.
Neal received a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering degree (1971) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (1973) from the University of Minnesota, Duluth. Later he studied at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, where he earned a Master of Arts (1975) and a Master of Fine Arts (1978).
Donald Neal has taught history of photography at Minneapolis Community College, Minnesota, since 1979. He was an instructor and senior photographer at the University of Minnesota from 1975 to 1979, and a graduate teaching assistant at the University of New Mexico in 1975. Donald Neal received an artist's grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board in 1976.