GEORGE (BUD) GUZZI is a graduate of Tufts College and the Art Institute of Boston. He was an instructor at AIB for five years. He is a member of the Aviation Artists of America, and has traveled to Panama, Italy, Germany, Spain, and England to document Air Force activities for the USAF art program. As a member of the NASA art program, he has documented five launches, a landing, and astronaut training.

In the last year his aviation paintings have been published in From Sabre to Stealth, by the Royal Air Force, and WWII in the Air, by Aviation History. Two of his marine painting demonstrations have been included in the book Painting Ships, Shores, and the Sea, by Rachel Wolf. His work is included in the following permanent collections - The Smithsonian Institution, The National Air and Space Museum, the US Coast Guard, US Navy, the Kennedy Space Center, Ford Motor Company, and in the private collections of former President and Mrs. Reagan, Susan Sarandon, and the Baseball, Basketball, Football, Hockey, and Racing Halls of Fame.

George and his wife Rita Guzzi, also a notable artist, have taught landscape painting in Talloires, France for Tufts University. George has recently created a series of paintings from the canalled city of Annecy. Having summered for 55 years in Maine his subject matter is fairly evenly divided between coastal villages in Maine, and those in France and Italy.