About Dave 

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

​Everything about my world is about storytelling. It's how I practice my career (I'm a teacher), it's how I communicate what I feel (I'm an artist), it's how I understand who I am (I process every experience by talking about it).  I'm a collaborator and boundary-crosser, obsessed with finding effective ways to combine photography, communication theory, digital media, graphic design, and raw enthusiasm to draw people into deep thinking and feeling about the ecology of human life. 

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My undergraduate degree is in art and sociology. Following college I worked in journalism at one of the last surviving family owned newspapers in America. 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 marketing and public relations. Then it was time for more schooling. I wanted to be a college professor. 

For 19 years I've developed Liberal Arts curricula and worked collaboratively with students and faculty from across many disciplines.

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I live and work in a diverse, working-class city neighborhood – across 3 interstate highways from the last recovering forests stewarded by countless generations of the Onöndowa’ga people. Their persistence within the sovereign Haudenosaunee Confederacy makes everything I love about this land possible.