Pasadena Museum of Fine Arts
 Four years, in Pasadena
CA Apprentice to Alex Kruschoff
Apprentice to Morris Smith
Four years, in Los Angeles, CA
Many years of independent study of the journals and writings of master painters working
        during the last 400 years.

Juror for Monac Western Art Show, 1986.
Taught arts and crafts for eight years at Boys Club of America.
Mr. Holt has held numerous classes and workshops throughout the west, teaching landscape
    painting on location and in studio.
Mr. Hold has worked with representationalists such as Curt Hanson of Connecticut, Bob Moore
    of Boston, Charles Palmer of Washington, Harry Benjamin of New Mexico and Susan Turpning
    of New Mexico.

David Epstein Foundation Scholarship, three years.
Bicentennial commission of Spokane, WA, 1976.
First Place honors in the British Columbia "Landscape of the Pacific Northwest" competition and exhibit in 1977.
Awarded mural commission for City of Spokane: Walkthrough Historical Exhibit, covering an area
     of eighty by fifty-five feet.
Third prize in Copley Society juried all members show, 1993, The Copley Society, Boston, MA.

Associate member of  Oil Painters of America
Studio-W, Ruidoso, NM
Azurite Gallery, Silver City, NM
Mountain Zone Gallery, McCall Idaho
JW Art Gallery, Hurley, NM