David R. Modler is an artist/educator born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. He earned his Bachelor of Science and Master of Education in Art Education from Towson State University, and taught elementary art for fifteen years. David has since earned a Master of Fine Arts in Drawing and Painting from James Madison University (JMU) in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and now is the Art Education Director and an Assistant Professor at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia.