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EDUCATION
MFA Maine College of Art [May 2000]
Portland, ME
Chair of Studio: Katarina Weslien
Studio Instructors: Mira Schor, Nancy Bowen, Ming Cho Lee,
Martha Rosler, Charles Hewiit, Linda Shearer, Michiko Itatani,
Carolee Schneemann, Alison Saar, Marcia Tucker, Robert Storr,
Vito Acconci, Portia Munson
Academic Thesis: Food Imagery and Feminine Desire
MA Rhode Island School of Design [May 1995]
Providence, RI
Academic Thesis: Play and Art: The Rift of Serious Folly
BA Hastings College [1982]
Hastings, NE
Majors: Art/English/Education
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Hastings College
Hastings, NE – Adjunct Professor of Art
Beginning Painting, Advanced Painting & Foundations of
Modernism [2010-2011]
Summer Program Director/Lead Artist ARTSTART Award-winning Apprentice Public Art Program
Coordinate/Instruct Lead Artists & 40 Apprentices each Summer (age 15 to 22)
Oversee 12 to 20 Public Art Projects in Sonoma County every Season
Santa Rosa, CA [2002-2009]
LaSalle University
Philadelphia, PA – Guest Artist/Lecturer
Art & Music 270: Interdisciplinary Foundations [2001]
Stuart Country Day School Art Instructor [6–12th]
Princeton, NJ [1988-2001]
Disciplined-Based Art Educator (DBAE) – A style of teaching the Fine Art Department
at Stuart believed in and developed in its faculty. DBAE is a nationally known philosophy
of teaching art within the curriculum funded by the Getty Foundation. Its basic principle
is to teach toward the whole individual through four crucial components – Art Production
(Making Art), Art History (Context for which art has been created), Art Criticism (Evaluating, Defining, Developing Formal Aspects of Art) and Aesthetics (Notions of Beauty/Conceptions
for the nature of art).
Classes Taught:
Advanced Placement (AP) Studio Art
Drawing & Painting
Elements of Design: Basics & Principles
Sculpture: 3D Mixed Media
Clay Works
Art History
Foundations of Art
Stagecraft: Theatre Design
Middle School Art
Beyond the Classroom:
Spokesperson: South A Street Artist Allliance (SAAA) Santa Rosa, CA
Speaker: Arts in Our Community Forum: Coop Galleries & Alternative Spaces
Art in a Bottle Fundraiser Coordinator/Healdsburg Plaza Arts Gallery
Writer for National Art Educators Exam – Educational Testing Services (ETS)
Established JAVA (Just About Visual Art) Art Teachers as Artists Group
Coordinate Annual Student Art Shows
Student Advisor/Advisee Committees
Set Design – Into the Woods, The Mikado, Alice in Wonderland, Mame,
Bye Bye Birdie, The Sound of Music, The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Coordinated Annual Terra Cotta Village-Holiday Community Fundraiser
Tennis Coach and Instructor
RESIDENCIES
Artist-in-Residence Santa Rosa Accelerated Charter School Earth Day Mural
Santa Rosa, CA [January through April 2008]
Artist-in-Residence Longfellow School Collaborative Mural Projects
Hastings, Nebraska [January 2003 & March 2007]
Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial – Visual Artist Residency [August 2004]
Cape Cod Residency/Sabbatical Leave – Cotuit, MA [2000]
Johnson Studio Center – Johnson, VT [Summer 1997]
Burren College of Art County – Claire, Ballyvaughan, Ireland [Summer 1996]
Pont Aven School of Art, Pont Aven – Brittany, France [Summer 1995]
Bennington Art Workshops – Bennington, VT [Summer 1991]
SELECTED EXHIBITS
Meaning of Green – Cowles Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA [April 2009]
Lucky 9: Smallworks Gallery 300, Santa Rosa, CA [February 2009]
EARTH ART – Anglea Graham Gallery, Hastings, NE [July 2008]
Artrails Juried Event – Seventh Year Participant [October 2002-2009]
Abstractions & Earth Metaphors – Local Color Gallery, Bodega Bay [May 2008]
Naturettes & Biotiques – Flying Goat Coffee, Healdsburg [February 2008]
Biotic Abstractions – Rochioli Winery [February 2008]
Best of Show – Elinor Bartholomew Fine Arts Festival [April 2006]
Piquant Scapes and Fertile Forms – Rochioli Winery Gallery [August 2005]
Land, Earth, Sky Remains – Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Exhibit [April 2005]
Two Generations – Alum Exhibit (Aunt & Niece) Hastings College [October 2004]
Abstractions & Nature Orbs – Rochioil Winery Gallery [September 2004]
Healdsburg Library Exhibit [April 2004]
12 Paintings/12 Painters – A Street Gallery [February 2004]
Innuendo – Rochioli Winery Gallery [August 2003]
Filling Space – A Street Gallery [June 2003]
Winner: Best of Show – Kendall Jackson Tomato Festival [2002, 2003,2005]
10 Commandments Collaboration – Sonoma Museum of Visual Art [2003]
Princeton Arts Council – Solo Exhibit, Princeton, NJ [April 2001]
Overcoming Obstacles – Bristol Myers Squibb Gallery, Princeton, NJ [2000]
Unbridled Eclecticism: Works from the Collection of Woody Dana
Portland, ME [August 2000]
Selected Works – Ruth Morpeth Gallery, Hopewell, NJ [June 2000]
Outlook; Views of Nature – Norbert Constidine Gallery, Princeton, NJ [2000]
Vermont Painters Reunion – Gordon College, Wenham, MA [January 1999]
Landscapes from France & Brittany – Mercer County College [October 1996]
French Library Exhibit: Pont Aven Paintings – Boston, MA [April 1996]
New Jersey State Heritage Award – Trenton, NJ [May 1996]
SPECIAL PROJECTS
Collaborative Murals
Windsor High School with Climate Control
Campaign Environmental Mural Project [November 2008]
Santa Rosa Charter School [April 2008]
Longfellow School [April 2007]
St. John School [2006]
Japanese Samari Print Mural – Sponsor: Auto Japan [May 2007]
Reflecting Fine Art Public Art Bench – Healdsburg Square [May 2007]
Charles Schulz Peanuts Sponsored Statues [Spring 2005/2006/2007]
The Trucksstopshere Boys & Girls Club Truck Statue
Sponsor: Kendall Jackson Winery [Spring 2004]
Set Design: Comedy of Arias-spoof on Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors [March 2004]
Koi Pond Private Commission Vaughn Young Collection [2003]
Collaborative Mural: Joy of Life: Peace, Play, Harmony & Beauty
Longfellow School – funded through the Nebraska State Arts Council
[January 2003]
FREELANCE EXPERIENCE
Cartoonist/Illustrator – Business News New NJ, New Brunswick, NJ [1988-2003]
QT Software Illustrator [1992-2003]
Gift Item Designer – Bright Touches Inc., Belle Mead, NJ [1984-1988]
PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES
Mario Uribe
Creative Director, ARTSTART
2000 Los Ollivos Road
Santa Rosa, CA 95404
707 303 5925
japanart@sonic.net
Annie Clarke
Director - Julia Morgan School for Girls
5000 McArthur Boulevard
PO Box 9966
Oakland, CA 94613
510 601 7819
aclarke@juliamorganschool.org
Madelaine Shellaby
Stuart Country Day School
Visual Art Teacher/Colleague/Artist
23 Blawenburg Road
Belle Mead, NJ 08502
609 203 4622
mshellaby@hotmail.com
Betina Hummerstone
Previous Principal - Stuart County Day School
443 Round Hill Road
Fairfield, CT 06824
203 319 1074
tina_hummerstone@yahoo.com