The Arts

At the University of Baltimore, while teaching psychology, Mr. Bray established the film department teaching courses in Filmmaking as an Art Medium.  He then founded the Baltimore Experimental Film Society to encourage young filmmakers, which helped launch the career of John Waters by organizing the showing of his first three films, and Steve Yeager, who won the prize at Sundance in 1998 for his documentary Divine Trash. After studying painting at the Schuler School of Fine Arts, photography at the Maryland Institute College of Art, and film at the Orson Welles Cinema School in Cambridge, MA and at Charles University in Prague, Mr. Bray completed Harvard University’s Institute in Arts Administration.  He was the first executive director of the Rehoboth Art League’s art school and galleries in Delaware, pioneering exhibits in banks and commercial locations.  He was the first executive director of the Rome Area Council for the Arts and served as the president of the Georgia Assembly of Community Arts Agencies.

Writing

Mr. Bray is founder and president of Bilbo Books editing and publishing services and management.  He is author of Defining Art: Messages from God – updating the Socratic definition of art; Your Spiritual Lineage: Researching the Genealogy of Your Soul – pioneering a new understanding of the origins of personality development; The Emasculation of Men in America: 50 Reasons why Males are no longer Men – describing a sociological revolution in progress and gaining momentum; and is writing World of the Young John Waters: Baltimore in the ‘60’s.