Don Kneessi is and has been a Visual Artist his entire life. He has a passion for creating images, from charcoal black and white drawings, oil paintings, intaglio etchings, alternative processes, and experimental color photography. He is an award winning photojournalist for his magazine cover photography to have won the honor of best in show for his portraiture. He has been a professor teaching such topics as Photographic Lighting Techniques, Color and Color Awareness, Photojournalism, Black and White Photography, and Alternative Photographic Processes. Not only has he taught these topics he has also been the author and creator of the course material.