Terry Sullivan

Prior to his reinvolvment with art, Terry was a beatnick, hippie, family man, owner of a property maintenance company in Lake Tahoe, Ca. and of a large ceramics tile company in Orange County, CA.

In 1983, at the age of 43, Terry returned to college at Pasadena City College. Beginning with ceramics classes, his interests quickly broadened to sculpture and enameling. He continued working in these mediums for the next 12 years. During this time, Terry became interested in Geology, Marine Biology, Botany, and Anthropology and his studies in these fields greatly influenced his art work throughout this period.

During this time, Terry founded the PCC sculpture club, was president of the Geology Club and served as the voting student representative to the curriculum committee for both the Art Dept. and Science Dept. He was also among the refounding members of the Sierra Club San Gabriel Committee, serving as the conservation chair and committee representative to the Los Angeles Sierra Club Chapter.

In 1993, Terry began work on an arts collective on family property in San Marcos, CA. In 1997, Terry moved his family to the San Marcos area to work full time realizing his dream of building an arts center which provided artists a place to work toward furthering their careers. Thus began the Nottingham Center for the Arts.

While Terry still maintains a sculpture studio at the arts center, he is also persuing interests in fine furniture making in the wood shop at Nottingham along with woodworking classes at Palomar College.  Since 1999 Terry has been an avid skydiver and is a member of Skydivers Over Sixty (SOS).