Artist Statement I cut up and rearrange, sew and glue paper from magazines, books, die-cuts, and other material. The recombinations represent my ironic point of view. Pictorial elements blend in unnatural ways and are visually engaging. The small books are made to be handled and appreciated for their textural and mechanical qualities. Equally odd are the handmade greeting cards.
Selected Works
mike - 2010 - collage - 7"X10"
Artist Bio EDUCATION • Project Zero Classroom, Cambridge, MA 2001 • MFA, Vermont College of Norwich University 1992-1994 • Art preK-12 (042) Alternate Route to Teacher Certification 1990 • BS, Boston University 1978-1981 • Case-Western Reserve University 1969-1970 • Stanford University 1970-1971 • BFA, San Francisco Art Institute 1971-1973
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1986- present Art Teacher Area Cooperative Educational Services Thomas Edison Middle School Meriden 2001- present Art Teacher, Art Specialist, Whitney N., W., E. High Schools, Collaborative Alternative Magnet Middle School and High School, Arise High School, Village, and Mill Road Schools Art Department Head, Betsy Ross Arts Magnet 1986-1999 Assistant Director, BRAMS Arts Camp
1986- present • Creative Arts Workshop Young People's Department Head (2007- present) and Art Teacher, summer art program and classes. PACK art coordinator. • Neighborhood Place, Yale Child Study Center 2006 volunteer- Chapel Haven museum trip. 2004- present • Art Coordinator for Parents and Communities for Kids @ CAW, a Wallace Foundation grant program collaboration with Neighborhood Music School 2003 & 2004 Coordinator, City-Wide Open Studios 2001 • Art Specialist. State of Connecticut Department of Children and Families and Yale University Child and Adolescent Research and Education Program, Summer Camp. Yale University- Department of Psychiatry and the National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. 2000 Art Specialist. Audubon Arts Camp, 4-12 year-olds costumes, sets, props, and puppets.
PUBLICATIONS, FELLOWSHIPS and GRANTS 2010 “Art-a-thon” upcoming. “Landscape in a Lacquer Box” March, SchoolArts Magazine. “In Search of Bulletin Board Ideas” March, SchoolArts Magazine. 2009 “Our Challenge with Discipline” April, SchoolArts Magazine 2008 “Toys R Art” January, School Arts Magazine “One Size Does Not Fit All” February, School Arts Magazine 2007 Beariebella Bear & Friends, Adventures in Art, self-published “DeForest Duck Visits the Museum,” Highlights- High Five Magazine 2006 “Please Take a Seat” December, SchoolArts Magazine web edition 2005 “Seeing is Believing” September. SchoolArts Magazine 2004 “Lets Talk” January, March and June. SchoolArts Magazine 2003 “ Mission- Not Impossible Mainstreaming an Arts and Ideas Teacher” April SchoolArts Magazine 1999 Art and Identity in Mexico. Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute. Fellow. Curriculum unit: Reflections in the Mirror; A Visual Journal and Mural Inspired by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Memorializing. Project grant from the Southern Poverty Law Center, Montgomery, Alabama. It's In the Details. Project and lesson plan selected by Fiskars, Inc. and used in advertisement in School Arts and Art Instructor Magazines. 1997 Blues Impulse. Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute. Fellow. Curriculum unit: Visual Blues- On the Move, Visual Art Syntheses of the Blues Impulse. A studio focused interdisciplinary unit on the blues in art, literature, poetry and music. 1996 Race and Representation in American Film. Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute. Fellow. Curriculum unit: Representation in Art and Film: Identity and Stereotype. 1995 Murals Reflecting Prevention. Healthy alternatives to substance abuse curriculum. Student mural chosen to represent Connecticut for exhibition in Washington, DC. Coloring/Activity Book: Kids to Kids. A coloring and activity book produced for the Pediatric Emergency Room of Yale-New Haven Hospital, featured in Weekly Reader. Direct Grants to Artists, Department of Cultural Affairs, New Haven.
AWARDS • Honorable mention SchoolArts Artist Trading Card Contest 2007 • Fiskars Scissors art project award
