printmaking

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EDUCATION

2004 MFA. Northern Illinois University.
additional coursework in Printmaking.

2001 BFA. University of Nebraska-Kearney.
Printmaking-Secondary Emphasis.

EXCHANGE PORTFOLIOS

2002 Print Gumbo . Southern Graphics Council Print Exchange.

2001 Twenty . Organized among Frogman's Print and Paper Workshops past participants and instructors.

2000 Nineteen. National Juried Exchange Portfolio. Wayne Kimball, juror. Organized by Frogman's Press Gallery in conjunction with Frogman's Print and Paper Workshops.

2000 Artists in the Community: MAPC Exchange Portfolio . Organized by St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN.

2000 Double-Ought Sex . Exchange Portfolio. Organized among advanced UNK printmakers.

1999 The Beginning and the End . Exchange portfolio. Organized among all UNK printmaking classes.

WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES ATTENDED

2002 Print Gumbo. Southern Graphics Printmaking Conference. New Orleans, LA.

2000 Artists in the Community: Mid-America Print Council Conference. Hosted by St. Cloud State University. St. Cloud, MN.

2000 Stone Lithography with Beauvais Lyons. Frogman's Print and Paper Workshops. Vermillion, SD.

 

Educational Blocks

set of 28 children's blocks covered with small etchings of what I vividly remembered learning as a child

RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2008 Museum Tour Guide and Activity Instructor. "Japanese Printmaking" as part of the "Seeing Art/.Making Art: A Collaboration between the Northern Illinois University Community School of the Arts and the Northern Illinois University Art Museum" sponored by Target.

2006 Presenter of informal gallery talk "Impressions of Beggars," a presentation given at the NIU Art Museum is conjunction with "Beggars of Rembrandt" exhibition.

2005 Event Organizer. "Ink Speaks," a presentation of printmaking by current and former Northern Illinois University faculty and staff in conjunction with "Awake and In Dreams: A Life in Prints by David Driesbach" exhibition at the Nehring Center Gallery. Artists: Michael Barnes, Dorothea Bilder, David Driesbach, Ashley Nason, Peter Olson, Adrian Tio, and Peter Van Ael. Nehring Center Gallery, DeKalb, IL.

2002 Edition Printer for David Driesbach. Complete an edition of 50 color-viscosity etchings for Southern Graphics Exchange Portfolio, Taboo .

2002 Printmaking Graduate Assistant. Northern Illinois University. 2001-2002.

2002 Visiting Artist Assistant. Oscar Gillespie. Three plate color etching and engraving. Northern Illinois University.

2000 Visiting Artist Assistant. Lloyd Menard. Relief and Intaglio on Handmade Paper. University of Nebraska-Kearney.

2000 Artist Assistant. Monoprinting with Susan Goldman. Frogman's Print and Paper Workshops. Vermillion, SD.

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