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M.F.A., Sculpture, University of California, Berkeley, 1991 Post Baccalaureate studies, Sculpture, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1986 - 1988 B.A., Fine Arts, College of William and Mary, 1986 Other: Landscape Horticulture Certificate, Merritt College, Oakland, California 2008, anticipated Master Gardener certificate, Cumberland County, Maine 2004 Audio Engineering, University of Maine, Augusta, Maine 2000 – 2002 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Adjunct Associate Professor, Maine College of Art, MFA summer session, Portland, Maine, 2008 Adjunct Faculty, Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, California, 2008 Adjunct Faculty, Solano Community College, Fairfield, California, 2008 Faculty, The Crucible, Oakland, California, 2007 - present Associate Professor of Sculpture and New Media, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine, 1996 - 2006 Visiting Associate Professor, Sabbatical replacement, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine, MFA program, 2004 Nonresident Studio Instructor, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine, MFA program, 2000 - 2003 Chair of Department, Sculpture, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine, 1998 - 2001 Artist-Teacher, Vermont College, Montpelier, Vermont, MFA program, 2002 - 2004 Instructor, Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, California, 1996 Artist-in-Residence, Museo Italo Americano, San Francisco, California, 1992 - 1993 Graduate Instructor, University of California, Berkeley, 1991 Teaching Assistant, w/Assistant Professor Christine Tamblyn, University of California, Berkeley, 1989 - 1991 WORK EXPERIENCE Consultant, Education Department, U.C. Botanical Garden, Berkeley, California, 2008 Programs Director, Landscape of Stories Arts and Education Program, Peralta Hacienda Historic Park, Oakland, California, 2005 - 2007 Consultant, Garden and Outreach Program Development, Julia Morgan Center for the Arts and Peralta Hacienda, Oakland, California, 2005 Program Assistant, Education Department, U.C. Botanical Garden, Berkeley, California, 2005 Crop Manager, Crops of the World Garden, U.C. Botanical Garden, Berkeley, California, 2005 Technical Specialist, Scenic Solutions, Portland, Maine, 2002 - 2004 “Lost Dog,” William Pope L traveling exhibition, and other projects Museum Technical Specialist, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, 1995 - 1996 Principal Museum Preparator, University Art Museum, Berkeley, California, 1994 - 1996 Technical Specialist, Oakland Museum, Oakland, California, 1992 - 1996 Preparator, freelance, Art Source, San Francisco, California, 1991 - 1996 Special Effects Artist, Brickley Productions, San Francisco, California, 1989 - 1992 Special Effects Artist, Cinnabar, Hollywood, California, 1988 - 1989 OTHER RELATED EXPERIENCE Contributing Editor, The Indelible Kitchen, the electronic journal of Popular Ink, 2006 - present Self Design Major Advisor, Furniture, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine, 1997 - 1998, 2000 - 2001 Internship Advisor, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine, Student Internships include: “Glass Sculpture”, 2000 - 2001, “Art teaching for K-12”, 2004 - 2005 Independent Study Advisor, Topics: “Clay Sculpture”, “Performative Sculpture”, “Japanese Puppetry”, “Site Specific Installation”, “Kinetics and Sound Art”, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine, 1996 – 2004 Consultant, Art-in Service Learning, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine, 1997 COMMUNITY PROJECTS "Stumps for the Rumps", Blake Garden, Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning, College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley, 2008 Led Solano Community College students participating in the building of an outdoor environmental education classroom, carving tree stumps into classroom seats. Adobe Wall Community Art Project, Peralta Hacienda Historical Park, Oakland, California, 2006 Organized and led community art project to decorate a 100 foot adobe wall using California rancho period adobedero technique. Growing Learning Communities, UC Botanical Garden, Berkeley, California, 2004 Volunteer Service projects with Garden Specialist Lauri Twitchell: Shepherd School, Hayward Laurel School, Oakland Maine Master Gardener, Cumberland County, Maine, 2004 Service projects include: Cultivating Community, Kennedy Park Gardens and Oxford Street Gardens Portland Harbor Museum, renovation of waterfront gardens Out Of Cake, Set Decorator/Scenic Artist, “The Viewing,” An independent film, Portland, Maine 1999 Chix Mix, Portland, Maine, 1996 - 1999 Co-sponsored young women artists’ workshop and critique group focusing on the relevance of feminism in contemporary art AWARDS, GRANTS Chancellor’s Award, the Annual University and Community Partnerships, GLC, UC Berkeley, CA, 2005, 2006 Rockridge-Temescal Greenbelt Public Art Commission, Oakland, CA, Finalist, 2005 Executive Board, Southern Humanities Council, 2003 - 2008 Faculty Development Grant, Maine College of Art, 2003 Faculty Travel Grant, Maine College of Art, 2002 Maine Community Foundation and USM, Honorarium, 2001 Howard Foundation Fellow, Finalist, 2001 Faculty Development Grant, Maine College of Art, 2000 SoundCulture International, Honorarium, 1996 U C, Berkeley, Commencement Ceremony, Graduate Speaker, 1991 Roselyn Schneider Eisner Prize, 1991 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship, 1990 Marian Hahn Simpson Award, 1990 VISITING ARTIST Drawing classes w/Professor Wendy Sussman, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 1991, 1995, 1996, Sculpture Department, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 1995 LECTURES & PUBLIC TALKS “Remembering Alta California, Remaking the Past,” Peralta Hacienda Historic Park teaching workshop CLAS, Summer Institute for Teachers, University of California, Berkeley, California, 2006 Southern Humanities Council Annual Conference “Weapons of Mass Destruction and Zombies: Collaborating for Survival,” co-chair, Louisville, Kentucky, 2007 “The Sound of Rhetoric?,” co-chair, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 2004 “Structural Memory, Ephemeral Space,” co-chair, Athens Georgia, 2003 “Crossing Borders, Breaking Down Boundaries,” San Antonio, Texas, 2001 “Is Feminism Still Relevant; The Cultural Relevance of Women in the Arts,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, Maine, 1998 Artists’ talk, “Onomonopoetics of Sculpture,” Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, 2004 Artists’ talk, “Faculty Exhibition,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine, 2004, 2001, 2000, 1998, 1997 Artists’ talk, “BoomBox: the art of sound,” Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, Massechusetts, 2003 Artists’ talk, “Vistas: Interventions in a Mediated Landscape,” Mount Ida College, Newton, Massachusetts, 2003 Artists’ talk, “Terrain; Contemporary New England Sculptors,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine, 2002 Artists’ talk, “Score,” Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, Maine, 1999 SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2008 “To Honor Teaching” Solano Community College Faculty Exhibit, Dorothy Herger Gallery, Fairfield, California 2007 Maker Faire, Make Magazine, San Mateo Fair Grounds, San Mateo, California “Work-a-day,” Blankspace, Oakland, California WMDcozy.com, public launch, Southern Humanities Council Annual Conference, Louisville, Kentucky 2005 “Voices of Temescal Creek,” Rockridge-Temescal Greenbelt Public Art Proposal Rockridge Public Library, Oakland, California Oakland Cultural Arts, Oakland, California 2004 “I.C.U.: Intensive Care Unit,” Cassandra Project, Sound/Performance collaboration with Ling-Wen Tsai, Portland Performing Arts Center, Portland, Maine “Showered in Sound,” SPACE, Portland, Maine “MECAradio,” produced and broadcast sound art collaborative Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine “Check it Out,” South Portland Public Library, South Portland, Maine “Eighth Biennial New England/New Talent,” Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, Massachusetts “Faculty 2004,” ICA, Portland, Maine 2003 “Vistas: Interventions in a Mediated Landscape,” Mount Ida College, Newton, Massachusetts “BoomBox: the art of sound,” Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, Massechusetts “Alabama filmmakers Co-op,” Huntsville, Alabama “Lundabio (Puffin cinema),” Reykjavik, Iceland “Brighton Michigan film Festival,” Brighton, Michigan “Local Independent Filmmakers,” 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, California “Local Independent Filmmakers,” Oakland Opera Theater, Oakland, California “Independent Exposure,” Microcinema International, San Francisco, California and Paris, France 2002 “Summer Faculty Exhibition,” York Public Library, York, Maine “Terrain; Contemporary New England Sculptors,” ICA, Portland, Maine 2001 “WaterMark,” site specific public sound installation, in conjunction with “Back Cove:Heart of Portland,” and the Casco Bay and Bayside neighborhoods, Portland, Maine, June - August “Faculty 2001,” ICA, Portland, Maine 2000 “First Impressions,” George Marshall Store Gallery, York, Maine “Weather or Not,” George Marshall Store Gallery, York, Maine “Printed Matter,” The Gallery, Portland, Maine “Negotiating Time,” Faculty 2000, ICA, Portland, Maine 1999 “Sonichromatic Variations,” a group exhibition of sound sculptures which additionally included four evenings of sound performance with Lauri Twitchell, C.W. White Gallery, Portland, Maine “Score,” Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, Maine “Northern Light Cosmic Sound: A Multi media Happening,” Southworth Planetarium, USM, Portland, Maine 1998 “At the Edge of Wind,” Robert Clements Gallery, Portland, Maine “The Word on Art,” ICON Gallery, Brunswick, Maine “Maine College of Art Faculty Show,” ICA, Portland, Maine “Do-It,” ICA, Portland, Maine “Breaking the Ice,” Between the Muse Gallery, Rockland, Maine 1997 - 1989 “Maine College of Art Faculty Show,” ICA, Portland, Maine “SoundCulture International,” ProArts, Oakland, California “Artists of the Bay Area,” San Luis Obispo Art Center, San Luis Obispo, California “Third Annual Luggage Show,” The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, California “Dancing on the Continuum,” Works Gallery, San Jose, California “Body Politic,” San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, California “BACA 8th Annual Juried Exhibition,” Berkeley Arts Center, Berkeley, California “Eisner Prize Exhibition,” Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California, Berkeley “UCB/MFA,” University Art Museum, Berkeley, California “Devices for Generating Other Things,” Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California, Berkeley “To Indicate the Reader’s Present Location,” Site specific installation in the Faculty Glade University of California, Berkeley PUBLICATIONS The Tusculum Review, a magazine of new writing and art, Tusculum College, Tennessee, featured visual artist, 2006 “Aspirate Breath is Expelled,” Audio CD of collaborative performances on “Envoy,” WolfCock Studio, Oakland, CA Conceptual Art, Gan Xu, People’s Publishing House, Beijing, China, 2004 “Eighth Biennial New England/New Talent,” Catalogue Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, 2004 REVIEWS Marty Ostrow, “Greater Boston Arts - the wildly multidisciplinary genre of sound art,” WGBH tv, Boston, February, 2003 Cate McQuaid, “Mills Gallery is alive with the Ambitious Sounds of Boom Box,” Boston Sunday Globe, February, 2003 Aiden Fitzgerald, “Mills’ ‘Boom Box’ creates a buzz,” Boston Herald, January, 2003 Nina MacLaughlin, “Boom boxing,” The Boston Phoenix, January, 2003 Jenna Russell, “This is Sculpture,” The Portland Phoenix, March, 2002 Chris Thompson, “Ecollaboration, Back Cove: conservation conversation,”The Portland Phoenix, July 2001 Matthew Algio, “Turning Words into Sounds,” Maine Things Considered, Maine Public Radio, December 1999 Pat Sims, “Sonic Booms,” Casco Bay Weekly, November 1999 Shirley Jacks, “The Word on Art,” ArtNewEngland, September 1998 Mathew Kanga, “SoundCulture 96,” Sculpture Magazine, September 1996 COLLECTIONS Watershed and the Robert MacNamara Foundation, Las Vegas, Nevada Ron and Christine Spinella, Portland, Maine Joanne Waxman Library, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine South Portland Library, South Portland, Maine RESIDENCIES Haystack, Deer Isle, Maine, Blacksmithing workshop, 1996 and 1999 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Bangor, Maine, 1990 |