EDUCATION

1987 - California Institute of the Arts.  Valencia M.F.A.

1983 - California State University of Northridge, B.A.
 
 

SELECTED WORK EXPERIENCE

6/2000-Present - Organize and instruct public art projects with youth, recent company participants include
             Rock Island Communications and King County Metro Bus Shelter Mural Program.

6/16/2000 - Invited to participate in the President's "One America" initiative on race meeting at the White House
                       with other celebritiy artists. Proposed bus shelter mural accepted for nation wide distribution by
                       presidential administration.

1999 - Selected to participate in future public artworks for the "Sound Transit " Co., Seattle.
             Seattle Renovation project scheduled to be completed by 2006.  See miniature bus shelter examples.

1999 - PRESENT - Coordinator and art instructor for The Home school Project focusing on
                                 designing alternative education workshops for pre-teen youth, Orcas Is., Wa.

1998 - Commissioned  interior  mural painting,  "Old Trout Inn", Orcas Is., Wa.

1998 - Theater backdrop murals, and set design for the performing arts at  "Orcas Center ", Orcas Is., Wa.

1994 - PRESENT - Owner and artist of "Open Eye Photo/Illustrations Gallery ", Orcas Is., Wa.
                                 Solo and group exhibitions, workshops in photography and illustration.

1996 - PRESENT - Extension coordinating art and photography  professor  for Skagit Valley College, Mt. Vernon,
                                    on Orcas Island, Wa.

1987 - PRESENT - Self employed photographer, graphic designer, and illustrator.

1987 - 90 - Drawing, and photography professor for Southern Oregon State University, Adult Continuing Ed. Dept.

1988 - 90 - Professor in photography, Pacific Northwest College of Art/Design, Medford, Oregon.

1987 - 90 - Photographer, and darkroom technician for the Ashland Daily Tidings newspaper, Ashland, Oregon.

1982 - 85 - Art coordinator, and self-help trainer for autistic children, and adults, Jay Nolan Center, Valencia, Ca.
 
 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

11/12 - 12/10/99 - Group show, "Room 222 Art Gallery", Grand Rapids, MI.
                                    6' x 3' x 1" "House #1" room enhancer photo mural.

11/1998 - Donated 6' x 7' oil mural painting to Artists Against Racism, (Get involved page).
                   that is being used as a backdrop for the filming of
                   public service announcements that will be broadcasted  internationally.
                  (displayed on the mural painting page)

7/99 - Solo exhibition showing paintings and multi media works at Key Bank, Eastsound, Wa.

5/99 - Solo show, photography and multi media works at Orcas Landing Hotel, Orcas Is., Wa.

1994 - PRESENT - Solo and group works presented monthly, "OPEN EYE PHOTO and ILLUSTRATIONS Gallery.

1992 - 94 - Group show,  Waterworks Gallery, Friday Harbor, WA.

1990 - Group show, Oregon Art Institute "ArtQuake" Exhibition, Portland, OR.

1990 - Solo exhibition, Patricia Sprague Real Estate Building, Ashland, OR.

1989 - Solo show, Stevenson Union Gallery, Ashland, OR.

1988 - Solo show, OtherArt Gallery, Southern Oregon State College, Ashland, OR.

1985 - Donated art work for the "Art for Life" Exhibit, at the "Victorian Street Theater",    Santa Barbara, CA.

1979 - Donated work, and participated in a group effort to preserve old historical buildings in Los Angeles, CA.
 
 

PUBLIC APPEARANCES

3/2000 - Art News magazine. Appear under  the "Arts in Seattle" feature.

1998 - PRESENT - Appear on website made up of several public service announcers, including, Celene Dion, Dan Akroyd,
                            Neil Young, and more in effort to arrange public Awareness in support of "Artists Against Racism".

1998 - PRESENT - Island's Sounder, and Journal Newspapers, Orcas Island, WA.

1997 - 94 - The Island's Sounder, Orcas Island, WA.

1997 - 94 - The Journal, Orcas Island, WA.

1990 - Ashland Daily Tidings, Ashland, OR.

1990 - The Mail Tribune, Medford, OR.

1988 - KSOR Radio Station, Ashland, OR.

1988 - Donated work for the Northwest Seasonal Workers Association's yearly calendar, Medford, OR.

1979 - Appeared in Los Angeles City Times in respect to being one of few artists who
             participated in the effort to save historic buildings in L.A. downtown.
 
 

 SCHOLARSHIPS and AWARDS

1981 - 86 - "Walt Disney Scholarship", California Institute of the Arts.

1979 - 81 - "William Amhanson Scholarship", California Institute of the Arts.

1983 - "Honorary Art History" award, California State University, Northridge.