Jim Weiss

213 19^th Street  
Palm Harbor, FL 
34683-5004   jweiss2109@aol.com  
727) 781-0909

Jim has been enthusiastic about art since his preschool days. He has great respect and awe of the old masters, especially Sandro Botticelli, Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, Albrecht Dürer and the later masters Frederic Remington, Edouard Manet and Gustav Klimt.

Education. Associate of Science, Cuyahoga Community College. Bachelor of Arts, Capital University.

Career Highlights. Jim Weiss is a former Army infantryman, school-trained combat engineer, and a school-trained military policeman (assigned to city patrol duties in then West Germany). He is a retired lieutenant from the Brook Park, OH, Police Department, and former state of Florida investigator. As a writer, he is a frequent contributor to a number of national safety forces magazines: LAW and ORDER, Tactical Response, EMS, Police Fleet Manager, The Police Marksman, and others. He works in a writing partnership with Mickey Davis, and in addition to writing for trade magazines and doing the accompanying photography – and occasional cover photos -- they write for magazines available on the newsstands.

Art Background. Three years of high school art and three years of drafting. Four college/university art courses. His art work has shown at Cuyahoga Community College (1970s); Lakeside, OH, Hoover Auditorium’s annual art show (1980s); and the judged and juried Pastel Society of Tampa Bay’s show Possibilities in Pastel (2006). He is a past member of the Sacripante Art Society.