About Terri
Terri Anne Thompson is an award-winning journalist and photographer who is emerging as a watercolorist and acrylic painter.
A former reporter and editor at US News & World Report and BusinessWeek, Terri taught business journalism at Columbia University in NYC for 25 years. She is the author of Biz Kids’ Guide to Success (published by Barron's in 1992) and editor of Writing About Business (published by Columbia University Press in 2000). Her first job in a newsroom was as graphic artist, typesetter and darkroom assistant at a weekly newspaper in Iowa, which is where she grew up.
Born in California and raised in Iowa, Terri spent most of her adult life in the big cities of the East coast (Boston and New York), and now she resides most of the year with her husband, Ralph Acerno, in the desert of Nevada, not far from the Las Vegas strip. She also spends part of the year in their home located in the woods of northwestern Connecticut. These diverse locations and others to which she has travelled, combined with her journalism experiences and curiosity, are reflected in her photographs and paintings. Through careful composition, design and use of colors and tone, her works tell a unique story.
Coining a phrase from John Irving’s The World According to Garp, Terri says, “I’m just a gradual student.” She studied at the University of Iowa, Northeastern University in Boston, Berklee School of Music, Fordham University and completed her undergraduate degree from New York University in New York City. She earned a Masters in Journalism from Columbia University, where she studied photojournalism and fine arts photography under the tutelage of famed photographer Thomas Roma. She continues her studies today with watercolorist Joan Iaconetti, landscape artist Rod Moore, and Olga Furman’s Paint Your Heart and Soul.
A veteran journalist, Terri retains memberships in the New York Financial Writers’ Association and Silurians Press Club. She is also a member of Nevada Watercolor Society, Las Vegas Artists Guild, American Watercolor Society, National Watercolor Society, Transparent Watercolor Society of America, and Laguna Plein Air Painters Association.
A former reporter and editor at US News & World Report and BusinessWeek, Terri taught business journalism at Columbia University in NYC for 25 years. She is the author of Biz Kids’ Guide to Success (published by Barron's in 1992) and editor of Writing About Business (published by Columbia University Press in 2000). Her first job in a newsroom was as graphic artist, typesetter and darkroom assistant at a weekly newspaper in Iowa, which is where she grew up.
Born in California and raised in Iowa, Terri spent most of her adult life in the big cities of the East coast (Boston and New York), and now she resides most of the year with her husband, Ralph Acerno, in the desert of Nevada, not far from the Las Vegas strip. She also spends part of the year in their home located in the woods of northwestern Connecticut. These diverse locations and others to which she has travelled, combined with her journalism experiences and curiosity, are reflected in her photographs and paintings. Through careful composition, design and use of colors and tone, her works tell a unique story.
Coining a phrase from John Irving’s The World According to Garp, Terri says, “I’m just a gradual student.” She studied at the University of Iowa, Northeastern University in Boston, Berklee School of Music, Fordham University and completed her undergraduate degree from New York University in New York City. She earned a Masters in Journalism from Columbia University, where she studied photojournalism and fine arts photography under the tutelage of famed photographer Thomas Roma. She continues her studies today with watercolorist Joan Iaconetti, landscape artist Rod Moore, and Olga Furman’s Paint Your Heart and Soul.
A veteran journalist, Terri retains memberships in the New York Financial Writers’ Association and Silurians Press Club. She is also a member of Nevada Watercolor Society, Las Vegas Artists Guild, American Watercolor Society, National Watercolor Society, Transparent Watercolor Society of America, and Laguna Plein Air Painters Association.