ABOUT

Dave Huth is a teacher, storyteller, picture maker, and whistler of jaunty tunes. He works as a professor of visual communication and media arts in western New York State.

 

That's me.

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I've built a creative professional practice all about communicating truths found in the natural world. I'm a born collaborator and boundary-crosser, obsessed with finding effective ways to combine conservation photography, science communication, digital media, graphic design, and raw enthusiasm to draw people into deep thinking and feeling about ecology and human life. 

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I live and work with my family and many other critters in a diverse, working-class city neighborhood – a very short distance from the last recovering forests stewarded by countless generations of the Onöndowa’ga people. Their powerful persistence within the sovereign Haudenosaunee Confederacy makes everything I love about this land possible.

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My undergraduate degree is in art and sociology. Following college I worked in journalism as Staff Artist at The York Daily Record (PA). There I received a real-world crash course in the complicated tasks of communicating important information to many diverse people. 

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Later, I pursued my passion for design in the commercial world of academic marketing and public relations. Then it was time for more schooling. I wanted to be a college professor. 

 

I earned my MFA in Computer Graphics Design from Rochester Institute of Technology (NY). After a short stint as an adjunct instructor, I joined the communication department full-time at Houghton University. Here I develop Liberal Arts curricula and work collaboratively with students and faculty from across many disciplines.