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Career
Summary
After
25 years as a Creative Director for many, advertising agencies &
national corporations, I returned to my love of art by pursuing
joy-giving act of creating sculpture and jewelry. I have studied
art, fine craft and coached creativity for over 15 years.
To
share art more fully as a wellness component, I have obtained a
Graduate Certificate in Creative Expression from ITP. Palo Alto, CA.
I am in the process of opening a creative expression workshop and
teaching facility named FireBrand Studios, in Prescott, AZ
Mediums and Focus
Clay, Metal, Stone, Cast Bronze
and Multi-Media
Vessels, sculpture, installations,
constructions and assemblage
Clay focus is on sculptural forms
in Raku, Saggar - Salt Fire, Metallic Fuming, and other exploratory
glazing & firing techniques often combined with metal and
copper.
Arts Training
2002 - Laloba Clay Ranch,
Steamboat Springs, CO- Advanced Raku – Jim Romberg
2001 - 2002 - Yavapai College,
Prescott, AZ Welding for Artists,
2000 - 2001 - Independent Study,
Stone Carving
2001 – Biz Littell, Don Reitz,
Sedona Art Center, Sedona, AZ Ceramic Sculpture
2000 - Anderson Ranch, Paul
Soldner & Peter Voulkos, Sculpture
1997 - Present - Yavapai
College, Prescott AZ, Advanced & Primitive Fire Ceramics,
Painting, Advanced Sculpture, Assemblage, 3D & Jewelry
Design
1998 - Filipe Ortega Studio - La
Madera, NM, Native American Ceramic Techniques
1997 - 1998 Sedona Art Center -
Sedona, AZ, Advanced Ceramics, Raku & Saggar
1996 - 1997 Art Institute of
Southern CA - Laguna Beach, CA, Ceramics
1996 - Dana Point Art Center -
Dana Point, CA, Painting
1990 - Rocky Mountain College -
Aspen, CO, Computer Graphics
1970 - The Silvermine Guild of
Artists - New Canaan, CT, Sculpture, Painting
1971 - The Arts Students League -
New York, NY, Life Sketch, Drawing
Galleries & Group Exhibitions
Juried
Group Shows & Representation
Nature's Visions Gallery, Salida, CO, Representation
The Courtyard Gallery, Buena Vista, CO, Representation
2003 - Arizona Metal: A New Millennium
- The Phoenix Center for the Arts, Phoenix, AZ
2003 - Celebration of Clay - Part of
N.C.E.C.A. "Borders in Flux" - Trios Fine Art Gallery,
Solana Beach, CA
2002 - Nofufi Garden Gallery
– Encinitas, CA- "Kinetica" Show & representation
2002 - Aspen Fine Arts Gallery,
Flagstaff, AZ - representation
2002 - Arte-Misia Gallery,
Sedona, AZ - representation
1999 Onward - Sedona Art Center
- Gallery & Gallery Shop, Sedona, AZ
2001- 2002 Prescott Fine Arts
Gallery, Prescott, AZ
2002 - Prescott Fine Arts
Gallery, Prescott, AZ – Furniture and Pottery
Show
2002 - Juniper Art Gallery,
Prescott, AZ – Group Show - Art Matters
2002 - Shemer Art Center,
Phoenix, AZ – Juried Show - Random Arts of Kindness
2001 - Prescott Fine Arts
Gallery - Arizona Designer Craftsmen, Group Show -- - There
is Art North of Phoenix
2000 - Yavapai College Art
Gallery - Arizona Designer Craftsmen, Juried - The
Object is the Message
Oct.1999 - Sedona Art Center,
Sedona AZ, Juried - The Art of Recyclism
1999 - Sedona Art Center,
Sedona AZ, - Juried - Artists and Craftsmen Annual
Spring 1999 - Yavapai College
Art Gallery, Prescott AZ - Invited - Art Lessons
2
Spring 1999 - Work featured in "The
Threshold" Publication, YC
Spring 1998 - Yavapai College
Art Gallery, Prescott AZ - 3D at YC
Fall 1997 - Yavapai College Art
Gallery, Prescott, AZ - Juried - Student Show
Fall 1997 - Sedona Art Center,
Sedona AZ - Juried - Artists & Craftsmen Annual
Education
1997
– 1998 Institute of Transpersonal Psychology - Palo
Alto, CA
Post Graduate Studies - Certificate
of Creative Expression
Qualified to Conduct Artistic Creative
Expression and Wellness Workshops. Currently working on Masters
Degree
1996
- The University for Humanistic Studies - Solana
Beach, CA
Post Graduate Studies - Art & Expressive
Therapy
1966
– 1970 Adelphi University - Garden City,
NY
Bachelor of Arts Degree - English
Degree in English Education, Minor in
the arts
Auctions
“A Chair
Affair” Friends of Yavapai College – Fund Raiser
Big Brothers
and Sisters - Fund Raiser/Auction
Yavapai Humane
Society - Fund Raiser/Auctions
Habitat for Humanity
- Fund Raiser
Professional Memberships
Arizona Designer
Craftsmen - President, Northern Arizona Chapter
Prescott
Fine Arts Association
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