James Felter

James W Felter was born in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains in New York State in 1943.  He presented his first solo exhibition of oil paintings in 1961 and graduated from the University of South Florida in Tampa in 1964 (BA, Fine Arts - Painting).  Jas spent the following two years in Ecuador with the First Latin American Regional Arts and Crafts Program in the US Peace Corps.  Upon returning to North America he attended the University of Washington in Seattle for post-graduate work in painting and the graphic arts, as well as Anthropology and Archaeology.  In the Spring of 1968 he moved to Vancouver and in January of 1969 began a 16 year stint at Simon Fraser University where he taught visual communication, founded the Simon Fraser Art Gallery and established the University's collection of contemporary art.  Since his departure from Simon Fraser in 1985 Jas has continued to pursue his activities in the visual arts, both in curatorial work and in art production of paintings, collages and digital prints.  In 1995 he launched his 'homepage' on the internet as the Jas Cyberspace Museum (JCM). which is now one of the oldest and largest personal web site on the world wide web.  In 1998 JCM was invited to present an exhibition of works in its collection at ART-MANAGE '98 in Moscow.  JCM collaborated with ARTINFO in Moscow in 2002 to present the first simultaneous opening of internet exhibitions, entitled "Motherland/Fatherland".