C.V.
EDUCATION
M.F.A in New Media from Transart Institute, Austria 2007
M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Vermont College 1989
B.A. from California State University, Sacramento 1986
Additional studies at:
New York University; San Francisco State University Multimedia Program; United Digital Artists, New York; The International School of Art, Umbria, Italy; McGill University, Montreal; Oberlin College, Ohio; Centre D Etudes Françaises, Avignon, France; Parsons School of Design
TEACHING
Christian Brothers High School, Sacramento, CA
American River College- Sacramento
Sacramento City College - Sacramento
Previously taught at:
The Art Institute of California - Sacramento, Full-time Instructor
The Art Institute Online, Pittsburgh, PA;
Gibbs College, Montclair, NJ;
The University of California, Davis
and, in the Arts-in-Corrections Program at Duell Vocational Institution, The Northern California Women's Facility, O.H. Close School for Boys, Susanville Correctional Facility and Folsom Prison
OTHER EMPLOYMENT
Creative Director/ Documentarian, The Readers of Homer
Multimedia Artist, Soliloquy, NY, NY
Video Scriptwriter / Director, General Training Company, CA
Freelance Web Designer and Graphic Designer
GRANTS, RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
Documentary Art.Net Residency, Puicheric France 2014
Invited to join the Arctic Circle Science and Art Expedition 2014, reschedule pending
Banff Artist-in-Residence, Banff Centre for the Arts 2011
Student Choice Teaching Award - Art Institute of California, Sacramento 2011
Six month working residency, Vermont Studio Center 2006
Who's Who of American Women 2002
Three month fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center 1999
New Works Painting /Video Grant from the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission 1998
Two Teaching Grants: California Arts Commission, '93, '96
Northern California: Introductions Winner 1991
Nominated for the Pushcart Poetry Prize 1989
REPRESENTED BY
John Natsoulas, Davis, California
PUBLICATIONS & READINGS
"Women Painters of Northern California"
"What's Funny About Forever?" poetry, Random Lane Press
Seventeen publication credits; numerous public readings 1988 - 2008
Featured Reader at the San Francisco Bay Area Book Fair 1994
Interviewed by August Coppolla on a PBS T.V. Special : "Committing Life Through Art" 1992
Two chapbooks: "Reciprocal Questionaire" and "The Company of Space"