A professor at the Maryland Institute for the past twenty-six years, he has a large following in teaching drawing & painting in addition to being Coordinator of the Senior Thesis Program.

Mr. Weiss also serves as faculty for the MICA Summer Abroad Program located in Sorrento, Italy. He is a frequent visting critic and lecturer at numerous colleges and universities, including Princeton, Vassar, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, the University of Pennsylvania, Moore College of Art, and The Corcoran School of Art. His artwork has been exhibited in galleries in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, and Washington, DC, as well as in Italy and Japan, where he lectured in conjunction with an exhibit of his works.

A five-time recipient of the Maryland state Individual Artist Fellowship, Howie Lee Weiss' art has been featured at Goya Contemporary in Baltimore where he most recently exhibited several editions of prints along with his trademark drawings.