Over long distance drinks one night our web designer John Turi and I were trying to decide what our next column offering would be. A little baked and sentimental, we kept coming back to the idea that there are a few artists out there responsible for either teaching us or teaching our teachers or teaching our teacher’s teachers; women and men that have spent their lives not only producing astonishing and ground-breaking art, but sharing what they know with those interested in learning. We thought of a lot of folks, like Professor Stephen Minot at UCR for instance, but John & I spent a lot of our formative years living in Long Beach, California so there was only one Emeritus Professor we thought of first and foremost: Gerald Locklin.