Following his graduation, he found a position at Brad, in the Țara Moților area of Transylvania, as a teacher of calligraphy and drawing.
He also drew portraits featuring leaders of the Transylvanian Revolution of 1848, after earlier paintings by Barbu Iscovescu.
In 1925, together with Dumitru Ghiață, he hosted an exhibition of his Țara Moților work at the Romanian Athenaeum, also publishing an album.
Together with other members, who included Gheorghe Ciuhandu, he edited the literary and cultural magazine Hotarul, in 24 pages, which first appeared in 1933.
[2] Sculpting in an improvised workshop in the courtyard of his school, he executed busts of the local pedagogue Petre Pipoș and of a newspaperman from Știrea.