PHOTOGRAPHS BY GENE YOUNG
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ABOUT GENE YOUNG
Gene started seriously pursuing photography on family vacations during the 1970s. His work has been exhibited at numerous juried art shows around the Twin Cities. Gene specializes in floral and international travel photography. His love for travel has taken him to Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, the Caribbean, twenty times to Western Europe, and to Israel and the Middle East. Gene visited Kenya for a month in 1989, and has traveled in Russia and the Baltic States. In April 2000 he spent eight days in Cuba.
In 1997 Gene first visited China and subsequently spent five weeks exploring Vietnam, Cambodia, Bali and Thailand. In 2001 Gene returned to China for six weeks, visiting remote spots such as semi-tropical Yunnan province, near the Burmese border, and the ancient Silk Road cities of Muslim Xinjiang province, only 150 miles from the Afghani border. In 2008 Gene spent five weeks in South America, visiting spectacular parks in the Chilean Andes, the wildlife of Patagonia and the Falkland Islands, Buenos Aires and Iguassu Falls, Bahia and Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.
His favorite American subjects are the coast of Maine and national parks in the western U.S.
Gene has been presenting his travel slide shows for over twenty years to school, community and professional groups. He also offers multi-media programs for secondary school students on music, art and theater history. He is also a serious stamp collector and serves as president of the Twin City Philatelic Society.
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Multi-media presentations on music, art and theatre history
Photographic prints for sale
Dr. Eugene Young was born and raised in New York City, where he graduated from the High School of Music and Art, the prototype for the movie Fame. He holds a B.A. in music and history from The City College and a masters degree in musicology and opera from Indiana University. After a ten-year career as a music teacher and theater director in New York schools, during which he mounted full-length productions of fifteen musicals and dozens of revues, he went on to complete a doctorate in curriculum and administration at Columbia University Teachers College. In 1973 he and his family moved to Minnesota so Gene could take a position as a middle school principal with the Mounds View Public Schools. He retired in January 1997.
Dr. Young is well-known in the field of middle-level education, having served on many state and national committees. He is an author of Paths to Success, the Minnesota state plan for middle-level education. Gene has served as president of the Minnesota Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development; his biography appears in three national Who’s Who publications. He was one of the earliest proponents for a state arts high school, and taught a humanities class for gifted middle school students for twenty years.