Trained as a printmaker, and long employed as a professional puppeteer, Michael Richardson’s diverse career as a professional artist in the United States shows a consistent pattern of celebrating traditional art mediums such as intaglio printmaking , shadow puppetry, and most recently kalamkari design, even as his works communicate contemporary themes. His love of the narrative is displayed primarily through drawing , as his career has embraced a variety of visual art forms . Michael has been teaching students from the day he left art school in Baltimore Maryland in 1980, until his present position as adjunct professor for the University of Southern Mississippi.