Mark Van Stone- BA in Physics, gamma-ray astronomy tech, then a calligrapher, carver, and paleographer; now professor of Art History. - Lifelong autodidact, clay-animator, netsuke carver in Japan. Guggenheim Fellow, Ph.D. in Maya Hieroglyphs (UT-Austin). - In 1997 Michael Coe invited him to co-author & illustrate Reading the Maya Glyphs. Mark recently updated and completely rewrote RMG with linguist and epigrapher Barbara MacLeod. It will be published in Spanish and in German later this year. - Other titles: 2012: Science and Prophecy of the Ancient Maya (2010); Maya Mold Made, with Paul Johnson (2022) - A Guggenheim Fellowship took Van Stone around the world in 1988-90, studying manuscripts and inscriptions of many nations, from Medieval Europe to the hieroglyphs of Egypt and Central America. - His unique approach to understanding any craft: practicing it. There is something one learns by actually *making* an artwork that one can learn no other way. Mark's unique combination of scientific training, passion for beauty and calligraphic expertise has bestowed profound insight into all these diverse traditions. Read More Read Less