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2013           May-One day FORCE Drawing Workshop at Collabs in Culver City.

                   June 1st-LA Zoo- FORCE Animal Drawing Workshop.  

2012           Oct-Dec- Occasionally at Thursday Evenings at Riley Street in San Rafael.

                   Oct 20th- Westerfield Mansion in SF-Gallery Girls "French Girls" drawing session.

2011           Feb-Lectured at North Eastern in Boston

                   FORCE Animal Drawing published.

                   Force:Dynamic Life Drawing and FORCE:Animal Drawing Published in French!

2010
Nov             Completed FORCE Animal Drawing book
Nov             San Francisco Academy of Art Univeristy two Saturday lecture
Nov             Expressions College, Animation and Character Design Lectures

June           Third Trip to Safari West

April            Second trip to Safari West

Mar             Third MegaMind FORCE lecture at DreamWorks in Glendale

Feb             Second MegaMind FORCE lecture at PDI/DreamWorks
Feb             Pixar-Third term of Force Figure Drawing!
Feb             First Trip to Safari West

2009
Nov            Start writing third FORCE book!!!          
Nov            FORCE art exhibit at Ruby’s Café in Emeryville
Nov            Riley’s Street Art Store FORCE  2 day lecture

Oct             27th and 28th Academy of Art of San Francisco University    
Oct             Cogswell “Art Alive” Live figure painting performance
Oct             Pixar  Ten Week FORCE class
Oct             Imagine Animation Magazine UK Writes Article on FORCE

Sept           Launch of drawingforce.com 2.0
Sept           San Jose State Lecture 26th 10am-4:30pm- Force lecture
Sept           Riley’s Street Art Store FORCE demo

August       First PDI/Dreamworks “MegaMind” Lecture

March        Pixar Four week FORCE class    

Jan            San Jose State FORCE one day Lecture

2008
May            Release of Force: Character Design from Life Drawing
          
2007
May            Move to San Francisco Bay area
April           Close EAA Pasadena location

2006
Sept           Release of Force:Dynamic Life drawing for Animators

2005     
May            PCFA becomes Entertainment Art Academy
April           Mike Mattesi becomes the new owner of the Pasadena Center for Fine Arts.
April           5thCal State Fullerton, Force one day seminar.
March        24thForce back at Nickelodeon for another 6 weeks.
Feb            2nd Art Institute of Laguna invites Force for a one day seminar.
Jan            Force at Art Center for second term.

2004     
Oct             27thForce at Electronic Arts for seven weeks!
Oct             7th Force returns to Nickelodeon Studios, Burbank, six weeks.

Sept           Force comes to Art Center in Pasadena, CA.

July            22nd  Force comes to the San Diego Comic Con!

June          9thNickelodeon Studios brings in Force. Six week course.

April          20th Force flys to Beijing, China to be taught at Peking University!

March       3th Book signing at World Supply.

Feb           17thForce worms its way into Golden Apple Comics
Feb           12th Force breaks into The House of Secrets Comic Shop
Feb           9thForce lands on the shelves at Bookstar, and Barnes and                
Feb           2ndArt Center of Pasadena brings Force to their book store.
Feb           1st Classes begin on Drawingforce.com

2003      
Nov            Mike and family move to Los Angeles, CA from Nutley, NJ
Nov            Stuart NG Books brings Force into its catalogue!
Oct             25thBook signing at The Comic Explosion in Nutley, NJ
Oct             12th Party for the release of Force, The Key to Capturing Life Through Drawing!
Sept           30th Nickelodeon of NYC purchases book for employee enrichment program