Dave Wagner started his career by getting cartoons published when he was sixteen years old at a local paper in Sacramento. Soon after, he headed off to Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and earned a BS in graphic design. He began work as a designer and painter for Douglas Bouman & Associates, a fine art and mural company. Highlights from that time include a twelve piece series of paintings featured at the Stratosphere Casino in Las Vegas, and being part of a five man team of artists sent to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to paint murals on the ceiling of a Four Seasons hotel owned by the Royal Family of Saud.

Dave then worked as a designer for SMASHED Inc., a party promotions company in Barcelona, Spain. Dave had a very good time in Spain. Later, after a year of teaching art and geography at an inner city high school in Sacramento, Dave received a BFA from the California College of the Arts (CCA).

Dave Wagner moved to New York to attend the New York Academy of Art, with a concentration in painting. Now he is the art professor at Northeastern Junior College. He is looking to work and collaborate with people who take art seriously, but are fun. No drama, just image-making.

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