Submitted by Julie Silverman on June 27, 2010 - 6:34am.
I found Dave three and a half years ago through the Vermont Arts Council website while I was searching for talented arts and designers to work with me on a traveling exhibition that combined science and art in new ways. Dave’s extraordinarily diverse body of work jumped off the screen. From designing rock gyms and creating architectural models to sewing his own tents and design/building green furniture, I saw a perfect for ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center at the Leahy Center for Lake Champlain’s exhibit design and fabrication needs but what I found was so much more.
I found an amazingly talented, seemly eternally patience, calm, enthusiastic, professional, creative, thoughtful, detail oriented, listener, collaborator, organized, funny, dedicated, easy to work with, problem solver, and a colleague that not only understood the needs of project and client but really embraced and was passionate about the environment. His passion for the outdoors and environment was so deeply embedded in his DNA that I didn’t have to explain ECHO’s environmental stewardship mission and how it guides our design and building choices, Dave lived it and was with us all along the way. I was so looking forward to our post-race July meeting to get our next project started together.
Dave’s absence will leave a very big hole in our hearts and in the creative world. My heart goes out to Lexi, Linnaea, and the rest of Dave’s family. Please know that Dave’s spirit lives on in everything that he built and the people he touched though every adventure.
A tragic loss of the true Renaissance man
I found Dave three and a half years ago through the Vermont Arts Council website while I was searching for talented arts and designers to work with me on a traveling exhibition that combined science and art in new ways. Dave’s extraordinarily diverse body of work jumped off the screen. From designing rock gyms and creating architectural models to sewing his own tents and design/building green furniture, I saw a perfect for ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center at the Leahy Center for Lake Champlain’s exhibit design and fabrication needs but what I found was so much more.
I found an amazingly talented, seemly eternally patience, calm, enthusiastic, professional, creative, thoughtful, detail oriented, listener, collaborator, organized, funny, dedicated, easy to work with, problem solver, and a colleague that not only understood the needs of project and client but really embraced and was passionate about the environment. His passion for the outdoors and environment was so deeply embedded in his DNA that I didn’t have to explain ECHO’s environmental stewardship mission and how it guides our design and building choices, Dave lived it and was with us all along the way. I was so looking forward to our post-race July meeting to get our next project started together.
Dave’s absence will leave a very big hole in our hearts and in the creative world. My heart goes out to Lexi, Linnaea, and the rest of Dave’s family. Please know that Dave’s spirit lives on in everything that he built and the people he touched though every adventure.
With deepest sympathy,
Julie