Since 1975, he has taught over 3,000 children and adults in fine arts. In addition to his expert teaching, he has a long history of establishing and collaborating on the development of socially valuable multi-disciplinary artistic initiatives. In the 1970s, he founded Artistas Del Barrio, a collective of muralists in Southern California whose murals have taken on historical significance and influe
nced generations of muralists. He studied art at Florida State University and spent a year at Oxford University in 1988. He was one of the creators of the Coachella Festival in 1993. In 1996, he founded the Point Roberts Washington Arts Foundation and the Point Roberts Arts & Music Festival. Since December 2010, he has created over a hundred images in collaboration with NASA Award Winning DIGIVATIONS Institute's Co-Founders Dr. Steven Lee Berman and Anne Deane Berman, PhD/ These images include illustrations for their Rocketry Playbook, Sphere of Influence Game, and the world's first overnight Camp Demigod as well as several logos. He teaches drawing and painting as a faculty member of the DIGIVATIONS Institute. His work has been purchased by private collectors around the world and he has an ever-growing circle of fans and admirers, from gang members to millionaires, priests to politicians. Edward Buendia has shown in Palm Springs, California and the Pacific Northwest.
