Objectives
To be engaged in an active dialogue with arts community and culture. To incorporate the creative process as working artist, educator and student
into daily practice. To find new ways to challenge myself in my work and on going education, while setting an example for my students.To always
be making a positive contributionto the communities
I am a part of.
Experience
Assistant
Director
In-Sight Photography Project
Brattleboro Vermont
2006-Present
- Responsible
for curricular research, design, supervision, and implementation from
beginner to advanced classes
- Volunteer
coordinator, curriculum designer for Òat riskÓ programs
- Grant
writing, fundraising, donor solicitation, newsletter contribution
- Maintain
digital/silver labs and equipment
- Responsible
for any of the proprietary needs of student and or other exhibitions
- Proficient
in Photoshop, Excel, and QuickBooks
Digital
Photography Teacher
The
Putney School
Putney
VT
Fall 2008
- Responsible
for teaching basic digital shooting skills, image composition, lighting
and content
- File
import and management, image correction
- Teaching
basic-intermediate Photoshop skills to students with various skill levels
and learning styles
- Printing
and critique skills
- Creating
presentations on contemporary trends and photographers
Facilitator/Instructor
Exposures
Cross Cultural Youth Exchange Program, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation SD, July
2007, Pine Ridge SD
Harlem
NYC, Brattleboro VT
July 2008
- Responsible
for participant selection, preparation and constant supervision
- Program
design and implementation
- Organizing
community events, outreach and interviews
- Facilitating
ongoing dialogue around race, class, gender and culture
- Coordinating
logistics for large traveling group
- Teaching
large format, digital photography and methods of creative process
Facilitator/Instructor
New
Ways of Seeing Project
Brattleboro Retreat, Vermont
2007-Present
- Designing
curriculum for young women with severe psychological, emotional and
behavioral disorders
- Facilitating
teamwork, communication creative confidence, problem solving an critical
thinking skill in creative process under confidentiality restrictions
- Creating
lesson plans and presentations that encourage healing, personal
expression
Head of
Photography
Snow
Farm New England Craft Program
Williamsburg MA
July 2006
- Responsible for
curricular research, design, supervision, and implementation for beginner
level photography 3 hour classes
- Darkroom
maintenance, supply inventory and ordering,
- Staff
supervision
- Designed and
executed 8 hour workshops on alternative process and shooting
techniques
Teachers
Assistant
View Camera Class, Massachusetts College of
Art
Greenfield MA
Spring 2006
- Responsible for
assisting professor Tom Young in teaching large format photography,
darkroom skills, and photo history
- Lead and
participated in weekly critiques of work
- Responsible for
drawing connections between student work and language used in contemporary
art
Education
Massachusetts
College of Art and Design, BFA Photography/Media Arts Spring
2004-2006
Boston MA
Greenfield
Community Collage, Associates Degree, Photography/Media Arts
2000-2004
Greenfield MA
Exhibitions
2009 ÒThin
LinesÓ Dirty
Truth, January, Northampton MA
2008 ÒThin
LinesÓ, Hope and
Olive restaurant June –December, Greenfield MA
ÒThin
LinesÓ, Solo
Exhibition, Vermont Center of Photography, May, Brattleboro VT
2007
ÒAlumni ExhibitionÓ,
Greenfield Community College October 18-November 4
2006Ò40
Years of Continuing EducationÓ Massachusetts College of Art, May 21-June 22
Bakalar Gallery, Boston MA
ÒMake UseÓ, Senior Thesis
Exhibition, Massachusetts
College of Art, April 27-May 7, Presidents Gallery, Boston MA
Other
Experiences
Anticipated
Volunteer FotoKids, Guatemala City, Guatemala February-April 2009
Cone
Editions Workshop Scholarship recipient May 2008
Substitute
Photography professor, Marlboro College, March 2008
Tufts
University guest critic Photo I, February 2006
Substitute
Photography Professor, Greenfield Community College Spring semester 2006
References
available upon request