Background
Michael Patrick Crane was born in 1948 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.
Photographer teacher arts administrator
Michael Patrick Crane was born in 1948 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.
Crane received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1976.
The gallery director and lecturer at San Jose State University in California, Crane held the same positions at California State University, Sacramento, 1978-79. He produced the radio program "New Title" at station KXPR in Sacramento in 1978-79. Crane administered the Ch'go Fog Performance Gallery in Chicago in 1975-76 and co-directed the N.A.M.E. Gallery in Chicago (which he co-founded), 1973-74. From 1974 to 1979 he was an editor/publisher of RDP Publications in Chicago, St. Louis and San Diego.
He created books, conceptual pieces, and live performances, as well as "photo-visual poems incorporating serial imagery" and "landscapes and topographic maps."
In 1977 Crane won a research fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Studies in Contemporary Art in San Diego.