EDUCATION

Clairvision Meditation School
2006 - present

Parsons, The New School for Design
New York, NY 2007 - 2009
MFA in Design + Technology

Prescott College
Prescott, Arizona 2000 - 2002
BA in Sculpture and Textiles

Yavapai College
Prescott, Arizona 1998 - 2000
AA Honors College, Graphic Design + Fine Art



TECHNICAL SKILLS

Rapid prototyping
Model making
Innovation
Texturizing
Print + Web design
Photography
Human-Centered Research


SOFTWARE SKILLS

Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
InDesign
OpenFrameworks
Processing
html, css, xhtml
Mac/PC systems
SolidWorks
OpenCV (computer vision)
Python
PHP/MySQL



ART EXHIBITS

Solo
Five15 Arts - Armor de Amor
2007 Phoenix, AZ

Gallery Beyond Words - Leaping Point
2005 Prescott, AZ

Pangea
2003 Prescott, AZ

The Chapel - Impeccable Assumptions, Senior Solo Show
2002 Prescott, AZ

Shoestring Gallery - Reclamation
2001 Prescott, AZ

Group
Five15 Arts - $99 Show
2007 Phoenix, AZ

Gallery 107 - Fiber Arts Showcase
2006 Winslow, Arizona

Gallery Beyond Words - Shift
2005 Prescott, AZ

Raku Gallery
2003 Jerome, AZ

Michael Boris
2002 Rhinebeck, NY




VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCES

2006-07 Arizona Artist Guild Membership

2006 Phoenix Museum of Art

2006 Desert Botanical Gardens

2006 Rejectamenta.com - PhD Project

2003 Gallery Beyond Words, Co-Curator of Group Show titled SHIFT



TRAVEL

Mexico (2005)
El Salvador (2003)
Spain (2000)
Norway England Holland (1999)
Germany Spain Morocco (1999)
Mexico (1998)
Argentina (1997-98)
Dominican Republic (1992)
Greece (1989)



REFERENCES

available upon request

download resume (pdf)



INTERNSHIPS + WORKSHOPS

PIIM
Parsons Institute for Informational Mapping
NY, NY Sept - current 2009.
Design Intern - designing interactive database for a taxonomy of informative representation based on the research done by William Bevington, PIIM founder.

Eli Klein Fine Art Gallery
NY, NY Jan - May 2008.
Intern at successful new Chinese Contemporary Art Gallery in SoHo, NY.

MoMA, Future Families Together Workshop
NY, NY February 2008.
In conjunction with Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition. Led by designer Elio Caccavale, focused on the future interactions of design, science and society.



WORK EXPERIENCE

Five15 Gallery - Phoenix, AZ
Organizer of co-operative art gallery - all aspects of press, print and exhibition. 2006 - 2007.

Phoenix Public Library - Phoenix, AZ
Library assistant + workshop instructor for the 16 branches of City of Phoenix Library System. 2005 - 2007.

Latifa Medjdoub - San Francisco, CA
Design assistant for wearable, high-end clothing and textile designer. 2004 - 2005.

Visual Splendor - Prescott, AZ
Self employed through independently contracted decorative + sign painting jobs. 2000 - 2004.



AWARDS + PRESS

Wynter Holden, 'Armor de Amor - Agave Art for the 21st Century' New Times, February 8th - 14th , 2007, pg. 64.

Lila Menconi, 'Right of Protection, Hot Desert Love', New Times, February 1st - 7th, 2007, pgs 5,41.

'Agave Art', Natural Awakenings, February 2007, pgs 7-8.

Rachel Bump, 'Resourceress creates with touch of nature', Daily Courier, February 27, 2004, pgs 1, 4.

Daily Courier, May 20, 2003, pg 9.

Daily Courier, June 16, 2002 pg 12A.

Carrie Mae Kreyche, 'RAW WITNESS', Self-Published 250 copies in Prescott, Arizona, January 2001.

Matthew Dean, Rough Writer, April 2000.

Yavapai College Student Art Show 2000 - 1st place Textiles, 1st place in Printmaking




RESIDENCIES + COURSES

2009 Clairvision Meditation School
March ISIS Course at Lynnskill in Bovina Center, NY

2008 Clairvision Meditation School
June-August Staff at Lynnskill in Bovina Center, NY

2007 Clairvision Meditation School
April + May ISIS Course, Thunderwand Meditation at Lynnskill in Bovina Center, NY

2006 Clairvision Meditation School
September ATE + ISIS Course at Lynnskill in Bovina Center, NY

2006 Clairvision Meditation School
April ATE Course, Phoenix, AZ

2005 Desert Botantical Garden Painting Course, Phoenix, AZ

2004 Latifa Medjdoub - 5 week Residency,
San Francisco, CA

2002 Butoh Course with Diego Pinon,
Prescott, AZ

2002 Ilsa Aviks Course - Stitching + Setta Color, Prescott, AZ

2001 Certificate - Ayurveda Institute, Albuquerque, NM

2000 Certificate - Holos Institute of Health Workshop with Caroline Myss and Norman Shealy, Springfield, MO