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| | 1999-Present Fresno City College Fresno, CA Head of Sculpture and 3-D Design n Teaching beginning thru advanced sculpture and 3-D Design. Program balanced between conceptual and technical. Media concentration ranges from bronze/iron casting, steel fabrication, wood construction, figure modeling and stone carving to installation performance and public spaces. Member safety committee, faculty senate, budget committee chair and faculty advisor for interdisciplinary expressive arts club: Art for Community Transformation. Acquired over $60,000 in grants to build sculpture department. |
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| | 1997 Idaho State University Pocatello, ID MFA, sculpture and ceramics. Thesis Title: “Divide Wisdom”
1994 Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL BFA, sculpture. Thesis Title: “That Which Once Was, and Shall Always Be” |
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| | 1997-1999 Johnson Atelier School of Sculpture Mercerville, NJ Full-time Instructor n Instructor in the Metal Finishing/Structures Department. Responsible for the instruction of apprentices and new staff as well as many of the departmental night courses and technical workshops. I also taught a course on Modern Sculpture and Seminars on Contemporary Art Issues ranging form “What is Post-Modernism” to “Art in Public Spaces” |
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| | 1996 Montana State University Billings, MT Sabbatical Replacement Faculty n Taught Beginning through Advanced Sculpture Courses and 3-D Design. In design course, 3-D form making was approached through problem solving techniques. Sculpture courses were balanced between technical and conceptual issues. I also supervised TA’s, maintained the shop and was responsible for the sculpture budgets. |
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| | 1995 & 1996 Idaho State University Pocatello, ID Graduate Teaching Assistant n Instructor of record for general education Introduction to Visual Arts courses. Course covered fine art, craft, design and architecture. It dealt with techniques and terminology as well as basic history.
1994 University of Kansas Lawrence, KS Graduate Studio Assistant § Assisted instructor with a foundry sculpture course, presented various mold making demonstrations, set up a ceramic shell system. Also worked at the woodshop as a technician. 1993-1994 Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL Sculpture Technician § Assisted instructors in the beginning and intermediate sculpture courses, supervised open studio periods, responsible for the maintenance of the woodshop, steel fabrication equipment and the ceramic shell mold system.
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| | 2010 "Ars Mathematica"
Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, Paris, France "Additive Memories" (solo exhibition)
Fresno City College, CA
"Contemporary Cast Iron" Industrial Museum, Kidwelly, Wales, UK
2007 “2007 Faculty Biennial”
Fresno City College, CA 2006 “Seeds, Starts, Beginnings and Endings” (solo exhibition)
Chris Sorenson Gallery, Fresno, CA
“Metro Iron”
The Ice House, Phoenix, AZ
"FCC Art Department Faculty Biennual"
Fresno City College, CA 2005 “Inside Out Group Exhibition” Fresno City College, CA 2004 “Art Zocolo”
Fresno, CA “Nudes in November”
Chris Sorenson Gallery, Fresno, CA 2003 “In the Beginning There Was Silence” (solo exhibition)
College of the Siskyous, CA
“Watchtower of the Sun and Rain” (solo exhibition)
Cuesta College, CA
“2003 Faculty Biennial”
Fresno City College, CA “BAC Members Exhibition”
Berkley, CA
2002 “Bold Expressions” (juried)
Sacramento Art Center, Carmicheal, CA
“Art that Heals” (juried)
Galeria Tonantzin, San Juan Bautista, CA
“LSU Sculpture Park 2002”
Baton Rogue, LA
“MAC Instructors’ Show”
Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA
2001 “Pleasure of Sight/States of Being”
Gallery 25, Fresno, CA
“Fall Works” (featured artist)
Blue Contemporary Arts, Mendocino, CA
“Faculty Biennual”
Fresno City College Gallery, Fresno, CA
2000 “North Becomes East, But I Went West” (solo
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Artspace Gallery, Fresno, CA “Friends of Lost Wax” (invitational)
Fresno State University, Fresno, CA 1999 “Within (as Opposed to Without)” (solo exhibition)
WPA Gallery, Princeton, NJ
“Small Works” (juried exhibition)
WPA Gallery, Princton, NJ
“Faculty Bi-annual”
Fresno City College Gallery, Fresno, CA
1998 “Wrap the Wind in Silence” (solo exhibition)
Extension Gallery, Mercerville, NJ
“El Fuego” Cast Iron Sculpture Exhibit
Extension Gallery, Mercerville, NJ 1997 “Divide Wisdom” (solo thesis exhibition)
Davis Gallery, Idaho State University
“Southside Artist Group”
Firehouse Gallery, Billings, MT 1996 “Laura Lindsey and Karen Balner”
Northcutt-Steele Gallery, MSU-B, MT
”Invitational Group Exhibition”
Vesuvius Gallery, Pocatello,ID 1995 “Art in the Library” (group invitational)
Pocatello Public Library, Pocatello, ID
“Zemiaky: Cast Iron Art”
Davis Gallery, ISU 1994 “Contemplation of the Human Spirit” (solo exhibition)
John A. Logan College, Carterville, IL
“Creative Synetics” (national juried exhibition)
An Art Place, Inc., Chicago, IL 1993 “That Which Once Was” (solo thesis exhibition)
Vergette Gallery, SIU-C
“Midwest Minis” (national juried exhibition)
Gallery 100, Cape Giradeau, MO |
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| | · Presenter, Digital Technologies in Sculpture 2009
National Cast Iron Conference, Birhmingham, AL · Member Iron Trail to
Arctic 2008
Denver, CO, Wiseman, AK, Wasila, AK, Kenai, AK · Presenter, Digital Technologies in
Sculpture
Western Iron Conference, Denver, CO 2008 · Visiting Artist,
Arizona State University 2007 · Visiting Artist,
CSU-Stanislaus Iron Pour 2007 · Presenter, Metro Iron Workshop
The Ice House, Phoenix, AZ 2006 · Lecture, Fresno Art Museum,
Fresno, CA 2003 · Contributing Author,
Recipe Book for Cast Iron Artists 2002
published by San Jose State University · Visiting Artist,
Lousianna State University 2002 · Lecture, 4th International Iron Conference,
Mercerville, NJ 2002
Co-chair panel on Iron and Public Art Projects;
Cupola Demonstrator · Presenter, 3 separate workshops,
Mendocino Arts Center, CA 2001
Resin-bonded sand workshop bronze casting workshop;
Metal chasing, welding and patination of bronze sculpture;
Cupola iron casting with ceramic shell workshop · Presenter, Cast Iron
Workshop 2001
California State University at Fresno · Visiting Artist Lecture,
Taft Community College 2000 · Artist-in Residence,
Mendocino Arts Center 2000 · Lecture, 3rd International Iron Conference,
Mercerville, NJ 1998
Panelist on Safety and Foundry Practice;
Cupola Demonstrator · Visiting Artist (re. Modern Sculpture),
Southern Illinois University 1998 · Demonstrator, SIU-C Iron Conference Southern Illinois University 1996, 1999 · Juror, Garrison Art Exhibition Billings, MT 1996 · Co-Presenter, Cast Iron/Sand Workshop,
Idaho State University 1995 · Presenter, Cast Iron and Ceramic Shell Workshop,
Univeristy of Kansas 1994 · Visiting Artist Lecturer,
John A. Logan College 1994
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| | · Idaho State University Art Department
Scholarship 1996 · Hollander Foundation Scholarship,
University of Kansas 1994 · Rickert-Ziebold Trust Fund Award,
Southern Illinois University 1994 · SIU-C Purchase Award,
Southern Illinois University 1993 · Micthell Foundation Art Scholarship,
Southern Illinois University 1986 |
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