“Although I began in science, I soon returned to my first loves of art, music, and poetry. Since then, I’ve made a life of creating images in words and music.”
Art
“The brush draws the line and gives us a word to hold to…”
Photo by Katherine Henry
As a Designer, Illustrator, and Art Director Harry’s work has appeared around the world. His clients have included Dolly Parton, Austin City Limits, The United Nations, The Space Shuttle, and Spain’s 500th anniversary Columbus Fleet. His own work ranges from automatic drawings to realism and expressionism. His personal projects range from printed and handmade books and instruments to video, television and design for the web.
Music
“Of all the disciplines I’ve explored, music is the purest vent.”
As a solo musician he regularly played an arsenal of acoustic guitars at festivals and benefits, each tuned for a different style of playing. He has performed with “Legend of Bluegrass” Tom Morgan and been nominated for the Nashville Musicians Registry. His own music has been featured on television, radio, and the web, appeared on soundtracks, and he has been a featured performer on public television and the news.
As an author of over 20 CDs of music and spoken word collections Harry is a multi-instrumentalist who plays 6 and 12-string Steel string and Classical Guitars in two dozen tunings: Flat pick, Finger style, Classical, Slack Key, Hawaiian Lap steel, Bottleneck, Celtic and Baritone Guitar, and Dobro, Banjo, Ukulele, Mandolin, Bass, Keyboards, the Japanese Shakuhachi Flute, Hand Drums, Trap Set, Percussion, Harmonica, and the musical Saw.
Poetry
“I often drift into trance on revisiting the work. When done well, I believe it works on the level of dreams.”
Harry’s poetry, essays, drawings and graphic illustrations have been published in the US and abroad in journals, books, and anthologies as well as included in academic conferences on the subject of haiku, and haiga, the illustrated form.
Harry has been a featured speaker at Poetry Gatherings, and his spoken word and original music works have been featured on radio, podcasts, and websites.
In the early eighties Harry served as managing editor for Pleiades, a poetry magazine still in publication today.
“Snow on Water”, his twenty year project of words, imagery, and music, can now be viewed on the web for free, and be seen in performance spaces, Art Centers and galleries.
He and his wife Katherine Henry were fine art printmakers in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Together they have created Black Barn Arts camps and classes, Atelier Annex studios, gallery, and an online artisan collection, representation, and sales, and Arcadia Park Designs products.
Harry and Katherine are founding members of ArtUp! a community-based organization to promote and encourage art as a destination in Vermont. They have also served as Visual Arts faculty at Center for Creative Arts magnet school in Chattanooga, Tennessee, named the best in the nation in 2010. They both contributed to pioneering and building the massive studios of John Henry at 1100 E. 16th Street, where they helped build some of the largest sculptures in the world in steel and aluminum. They were also among the original visionaries of Sculpture Fields at Montague Park, a venue of public art and culture now open for viewing there.
He is currently preparing for print a series of books on relationship with the sacred landscape featuring original text, artwork, and photography. Collection includes 1250 pages with over 600 original Photographs, Paintings, and Drawings.
Harry and Katherine have been instructors and advocates for the arts in municipal, public, and private education systems.
Other Activities, Posts, and Websites. Copy and Paste addresses for links.
1963 Bermuda Triangle http://www.snowonwater.com/?p=3768
1967 Mountain Lion http://www.snowonwater.com/?p=3820
1975 Meteor http://www.snowonwater.com/?p=3196
1976 The Bridge http://www.snowonwater.com/?p=5725
1979 Bachelor of Science, Biology, Chemistry, Agriculture
1985 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Commercial Art
1994 River Incident, San Marcos River, Texas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3JxtNHO8Nc
2002 Wáshitá Battlefield, Custer County, Oklahoma https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv5RS2SwcGo
2003 Calanais Stone Circle, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland http://www.snowonwater.com/?p=3541
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1979 Apprentice, Al-Marah Arabians, Tucson, Arizona http://www.snowonwater.com/?p=3486
1982 Missouri Department of Conservation, Forestry and Wildlife Divisions
1983 Managing Editor “Pleiades” https://pleiadesmag.com/
1984 Alternative Photography http://www.snowonwater.com/?p=5155
1985 Certified Nurse’s Aide
1985 Adkins Printing, with Linotype hot lead typesetter
1987 River City Reunion, Beat Generation 5-Day gathering featuring Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Frankie Edie Kerouac Parker, Timothy Leary, Andrei Codrescu et al, Lawrence, Kansas http://www.snowonwater.com/?p=4397
1996 American Crew, Niña, Spain’s 500th Anniversary Columbus Fleet, Corpus Christi, Texas http://www.snowonwater.com/?p=3488
1996 Research Assistant, Oceanic Expeditions, Pacaya-Samiriya Preserve, Population Survey of Pink River Dolphin, Amazon Basin, Peru http://www.snowonwater.com/?p=3490
1996 Access Television, Weekly Live Music Cablecast, Virtual Noise, Austin, Texas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KIUYxjkt1w
1998 Temple of Maximón, Dia de Los Muertos, Hurricane Mitch, Guatemala http://www.snowonwater.com/?p=3492
1999 Walked Away as Designer, Illustrator, Photographer, Art Director
2000 Fine Art Printmaker, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2000 Solo Guitar Program “Music by Harry Hudson” SFPTV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNJIEdKeDi8
2002 Begin 10-Year Walking Meditation in Civil War Battlefields and on the Cherokee Trail of Tears, Chattanooga, Tennessee http://www.snowonwater.com/?p=3494
2002 Apprentice to Tom Morgan, IBM Hall of Fame “Legend of Bluegrass”, Dayton Mountain, Tennessee http://www.snowonwater.com/?p=3830 https://www.mtsu.edu/popmusic/findingaids/pdfaids/TomMorgan.pdf
2002 Begin Haiku-a-Day-for-a-Year exchange through the mail with Michelle Tennison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBjQv8KaMok
2002 Solo Guitarist: Bob Douglas Fiddle Festival, benefit for Audubon Acres, Southern Belle Riverboat, Hamilton County Fair, Cricket Pavilion, Music on the River, Curly Fox Fiddle Festival, Creative Arts Guild, WDEF CBS News Interview, Chattanooga Times Free Press Arts and Entertainment, Memorial Hospital Music Therapy Program
2003 Teaching Guitar Classes; Parks and Recreation, Creative Arts Guild, Dalton, Georgia, Workshops; Center for Creative Arts, Interactive Exhibitions; Various Venues of Chattanooga, Tennessee
2003 Married, Glenelg, Scotland to Katherine Henry, Photographer, Sculptor, Designer, https://www.arcadiaparkdesigns.com/
2003 Begin publishing in Haiku Journals Modern Haiku, Hermitage essays, haiku, and haiga. 40 haiku in print. http://www.snowonwater.com/?p=2978
2003 Studio Manager, John Henry Sculptor, Chattanooga, Tennessee worked on “Tatlin’s Sentinel”, “Fulcrum”, “Jaguar”, “Zach’s Tower” http://www.snowonwater.com/?p=4710
2003 Adjunct Faculty, Center for Creative Arts, Chattanooga, Tennessee http://www.snowonwater.com/?p=5066
2004 Student Work from Center for Creative Arts went on exhibit in Mayor Bob Corker Office Conference Room, Art in Public Places program, Allied Arts of Greater Chattanooga.
2005 Submitted Drawings for Proposal of Sculpture Fields in Montague Park to Mayor Ron Littlefield, Chattanooga, Tennessee https://www.sculpturefields.org/
2006 Haiga in book “Imagine si Text en Haiga” by Ion Codrescu
2006 Nominated to Nashville Musician’s Registry by Keith Stalcup, Guitarist: Mary Chapin Carpenter, Statler Brothers, Jerry Lee Lewis https://www.linkedin.com/in/keith-stalcup-579b8717a
2006 Center for Creative Arts Kennedy Center Award https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chattanooga_High_School_Center_for_Creative_Arts
2006 Visual Arts Visiting Artists and Field Trips: John Henry, Sculptor, Hartmut Stielow, Sculptor, Jan Meyer-Rogge, Sculptor, Chakia Booker, Sculptor, Jim Collins, Sculptor, Lucinda Linderman, Sculptor, Isaac Duncan III, Sculptor, Bethe Deakin, Interior Designer, Brian Tune, Architect, Waldo Vinces, Painter, Joe Damash, Clothing Designer, Tom Morgan, Luthier, Bruce Weiss, Designer, Dr. Michael Shapiro, High Museum of Art, Adera Causey Hunter Museum of Art, Bill Johnson, Art History, Mark Bradley-Shoup, Painter, Gallerist, Allied Arts of Chattanooga
2006 Fall Homecoming Museum of Appalachia, Norris Tennessee with Tom Morgan, also present Doc Watson, Ralph Stanley, Jeanette Carter https://www.museumofappalachia.org/tennessee-fall-homecoming-comes-to-an-end/
2009 Co-founded Black Barn Arts Homeschool Art Program, Vermont
2009 6-Day practice in Sacred Sites in Vermont and New Hampshire with Zacciah Blackburn, https://thecenteroflight.net/
2010 Center for Creative Arts named one of the top schools in the Nation https://cca.hcde.org/about_us/awards_recognition
2011 Haiku Ceramics http://www.snowonwater.com/?portfolio=ceramics
2012 Complete 10-year Walking Meditation, 4250 poems, 7,500 miles walked, Two Hundred Thousand mantras, Windsor County, Vermont
2012 “Hayden’s Dream” presentation, installation, music “Destiny of Place” at Vermont Institute of Contemporary Art (Vtica) http://www.snowonwater.com/?p=4029
2013 Radio Interview, Brush and Drum CD release, Haiku and Music, “Earbisque”, WOOL FM Bellows Falls, Vermont https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go8XkRrN9qg
2013 SoundCloud Channel “Snow on Water” 21 Tracks of music and spoken word samples https://soundcloud.com/snow-on-water
2014 Haiku Animation “Small Things” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS6ZxVbs2GE
2014 YouTube Channel “Snow on Water” 36 Videos, Guitar, Haiku, Poetry playlists https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8UHWYszbvKT252XV4SApmQ/videos
2014 SnowonWater.com website released featuring work from the 10-year Walking Meditation, over 100 screens of content
2014 Installation of Music, Poetry, Video at Deering Estate, Miami, Florida “In Deep” Exhibition http://www.snowonwater.com/?portfolio=installations
2015 Begin work on book “The Rose” Spirit Images in the Sacred Landscape as Aleskkya 144 pages, Essays, Text, and 100 original photographs of spirit images in sacred spaces
2017 Copyright and Proof “The Rose” Spirit Images in the Sacred Landscape as Aleskkya ISBN 978-0-6920-85556-0 with Introduction by Katherine Henry
2019 BrushandDrum.com website released featuring work in Sacred Sites, 36 screens of content
2019 Volunteer, Vermont Institute of Natural Science (VINS) working with Eagles, Hawks, Owls, Falcons, Ravens, Vultures in Quechee, Vermont http://www.snowonwater.com/?p=5970
2019 Podcast Interview, “Sacred Landscapes“, Nature Revisited, Episode 13, Part I Interview, and Part II Readings and Music from Snow on Water https://soundcloud.com/snow-on-water/sets/podcasts
2020 Featured Presenter at Wild Graces Poetry Gathering, 90 minute presentation: “Haiku as a Path to the Sacred” Haiku, Haiga, Haibun, Blind Questions and Answers, Books, Ceramics, Photography, Graphics, Music, Deerfield, New Hampshire http://www.wildgraces.com/Haiku-Gathering.html
2020 Create “Snow on Water Podcast“, 13 hours of spoken word and original music in 15 Chapters. Unpublished.
2021 Prepare proofs of Eight Books in “The Offering” series on Relationship in the Sacred Landscape http://brushanddrum.com/books : Snow on Water, The Barest Rain, The Root, The Seed, The Garden, The Vine, The Leaf, and The Rose. Collection includes 1250 pages with 610 original Photographs, Paintings, and Drawings.
2021 Preparing proofs of books: Letters to My Father; A Memoir, The Root; The Talking Stones, and The Pencil is on Fire and Still Writing; Collected Art and Design
2021 Anthologized, Wild Graces Anthology of Haiku
2022 Featured Presenter, Great Gossamer 3-Day Event and Exhibition, University of Central Missouri, 2 Hour Lecture, “Finding Eden: Awakening to Sacred Landscape” as Aleskkya.
2022 Exhibitor, University of Central Missouri,”The Knight” photographic print. Published in GG2022 Great Gossamer Exhibition of 2022 Exhibition Catalog as Aleskkya, November 2022
2023 Presentation and Exhibition, Atelier Annex Fine Art Gallery, ”The Gifts of the Magi” photographs and readings from “The Rose” and “The Root” from The Offering series of Books by Aleskkya, December 2023