Richard Alomar is a practicing landscape architect, assistant professor of Landscape Architecture at Rutgers University, and co-founder of New York Urban Sketchers. He has led sketching activities and lectured at three symposiums and organizes sketch walks at universities across the United States.
His academic and professional work as an urban sketcher have been published in journals and books on urban sketching. He has developed a series of Urban Sketching programs based on the USk manifesto, that teach sketching to school children, design professionals and the general public. His “Urban Sketch Gardeners” program is part of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School research project that studies the relationship between gardening, diet and health.