John Michael Keating  teaches classes in Art History, Portraiture, Watercolor and Figure Drawing at the Sierra College Nevada County Campus in Grass Valley, California. He was Visiting Artist at Franklin College in Lugano, Switzerland during the summers of 1998 and 2000 and has lectured on Art History at Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo, California and at various arts clubs and organizations. He has lived in Switzerland and Spain and has exhibited his award-winning oils, watercolors and prints in the United States and in Spain. His works have been purchased by Marriott Inc., Bank of America, San Francisco General Hospital and Toyota Motor Corporation. His commissioned paintings hang in the Firehouse Restaurant in Sacramento, California, in the Merryvale Vineyards in St. Helena, California and in the Eric Rood Administrative Center in Nevada City, California.

"As a boy growing up in a river town in Northern Illinois, my only experience with mountains was in my imagination. Real mountains, like the Sierra Nevada, turned out to be much more wonderful. They have fascinated me for the past 25 years that I've lived near them, and I try to share that sense of wonder in my paintings"

John Michael Keating