Resume
EDUCATION:
Dec 2000:
MFA, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Sep 1996 – May 1998:
Post-graduate Independent Studies in Metals, WSU
May 1996:
BFA, Cum Laude, Metals. Wayne State University
1994 -1996:
Numerous metal smithing workshops.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
July 2003 – Present:
Curator of Exhibitions, Ellen Kayrod Gallery, Hannan House, Detroit. Organize, install and promote gallery exhibitions and events.
Jan. 2004 – Dec 2005:
Jewelry Instructor, B.U.O.Y. 3 Activity Center, Southwest Detroit, MI
May 2000 – Present:
Self-employed Artist: Sculptor; Jeweler; Visual and Performance Artist
May 2001 – Aug 2001:
Adjunct Faculty: Intro to Jewelry and Metal Design; Advanced-level Directed Project. Wayne State University, Detroit
Sep. 1998 – May 2000:
Graduate Teaching Assistant. Fundamentals of jewelry and metal smithing, Wayne State University
Jan. 1998 – May 1998:
Metal Shop Technician, WSU. Maintenance and organization of metal shop.
Sep. 1997 – Sep. 1998:
Jewelry Instructor, Norman Thomas Co., Birmingham, MI. Fundamentals of jewelry making; basic fabrication techniques.
May 1996 – Sep. 1997:
Self employed Studio Jeweler. Wholesale production-line and one-of-a-kind jewelry, sold throughout MI, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio.
June 1997 – Aug.1997:
Jewelry and Fine Arts Instructor, Jewish Community Center, Birmingham, MI. Instructed summer camp students in jewelry-making and art projects.
Dec. 1980 – Jan. 1995:
Registered Sales Assistant. Prudential Securities, Ronald Rashid, 400 Renaissance Center, Det., MI. Account maintenance and operational problem solving.
DEMONSTRATIONS AND WORKSHOPS
October 2006:
Papier-mâché skull demo & the Ofrenda; Detroit Institute of Arts.
November 2005:
Dia de los Muertos workshop, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI, presented with V. Valdez.
Dia de los Muertos workshops, Matrix Theatre, Detroit.
May 2005:
Heritage Festival. Latino Culture workshops at Maplewood Center, Garden City, MI. Sponsored by Casa de Unidad.
November 2004:
Dia de los Muertos workshops, presented with V. Valdez at the Scarab Club, Detroit, MI. Sponsored by Casa de Unidad.
October 2004:
Art in the Garden. Thurgood Marshall High School, Detroit. Sponsored by The Greening of Detroit.
January 2003:
Metalworking Techniques: Riveting and Cold Connections. First Friday, Artist in the Gallery. Detroit Institute of Arts.
March 2003:
Metalsmithing Workshop: 4 wks as visiting artist, Det. Institute of Arts.
May 2002:
Jewelry and Metalsmithing: Texturing and soldering metal. Visiting artist, Wayne State University, Detroit.
EXHIBITIONS
2010:
- Viva Comunidad, Padziewski Art Gallery, Dearborn, MI
2009:
- Latino Art in Detroit, Pittman-Puckett Art Gallery, Ferndale, MI
- Art & Bodies, Work-Detroit Gallery, Detroit, MI
- Actual Size Biennial, The CAID Gallery, Detroit, MI
- Alley Culture Fall’09, Alley Culture Gallery, Detroit, MI
- Our Creative Lives, Lady Bug Gallery, Detroit
- SWAN Innaugural Exhibition, COMPAS Center for the Performing Arts, Detroit
2008:
- Works In Progress; solo exhibition culminating artist-in-residency at 555 Gallery
- Still Point Art ‘08; Still Point Zen Temple, Detroit, MI
- Press Play; 555 Gallery, Detroit, MI
- Women Image Women; Scarab Club, Detroit, MI
2007:
- Actual Size; Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, Detroit, MI
- Guns: Replacing Violence with Art, Tangent Gallery, Detroit, MI
- Esperanza; Pontiac Art Center, Pontiac, MI
- Azutunarasharedo; Zeitgeist Gallery, Detroit, MI
2006:
- Dia de Los Muertos; Zeitgeist Gallery, Detroit, MI
- Art Out of the Box, Northville Art House, Northville, MI
- Gender(f); Westnorth Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
2005:
- Kinder; Juris Galleries, Detroit, MI
- 2000 Artists!; 4731 Gallery, Detroit, MI
- Sol, Luna y Tierra; Pontiac Arts Center, Pontiac, MI
- Actual Size; Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit (CAID), Detroit, MI
- Jewels, Gems & Portrait Show; Orion Art Center, Orion, MI
- Mixed Media/Mixed Messages; Detroit Artists Market, Detroit
- Sound of Art; Juris Galleries, Detroit
- South Meets North, An Exhibition of Mexican-American Artists; Bagley Hsg. Gallery, Det.
- DAM Members Invitational; Detroit Artists Market, Det, MI
2004:
- Street Smartz; Art Exchange, Detroit, MI
- Diverse & United, Community Artists & Friends; Bagley Housing Gallery, Detroit, MI
- Hispanic Heritage; Wayne County Community College, Taylor, MI
- markzine.com On-line group exhibition
2003:
- Sister, Sister; Izzy’s Raw Art Gallery, Detroit, MI
- Listen To Me: Women/Voice/Culture; Swords Into Plowshares Gallery, Detroit, MI
- Mini-Series; Agave, Detroit, MI
- Herbeck/Valdez; Zeitgeist Gallery, Detroit, MI
- Wisdom and Compassion/Artist Activists; Swords Into Plowshares, Detroit, MI
- Nine Latinas One Spirit; Bagley Housing Gallery, Detroit, MI
2002:
- Milagros: Ofrenda Installation Dedicated to Victims of Breast Cancer, in collaboration with Vito Valdez; C-Pop Gallery, Detroit, MI
- So Little Time; Zeitgeist Gallery, Detroit, MI
- Unity in the Community; Bagley Housing Gallery, Detroit, MI
- Body Parts; Zeitgeist Gallery, Detroit, MI
- Michigan Cass Month: Cass and Beyond; Padziewski Gallery, Dearborn, MI
2001:
- Actual Size; detroit contemporary, Detroit, MI.
- Detroit Special; Johanson Charles Gallery, Detroit, MI
- Caliente; Fan Club, Pontiac, MI
- The Three Sculptors; Zeitgeist Gallery, Detroit, MI
- Girlee Detroit Collective; Cranbrook Museum of Art, W. Bloomfield, MI
- Jewelry & Objects; Ann Arbor Center for the Arts, Ann Arbor, MI
- Herstory. A Girlee Detroit Collective Show; Robert Maniscalco Gallery, Detroit
- Wayne State University Thesis Exhibition; Community Arts Gallery, Detroit
2000:
- Art Official Intelligence Y2K; Metropolitan Center for the Creative Arts, Detroit
- Image Factory; detroit contemporary, Detroit, MI
- Off the Wall: 3-Dimensional Sculpture; Uzelac gallery, Pontiac, MI
- The Girlee Show: Represent; C-Pop Gallery, Detroit, MI
- Graduate Works in Progress; Wayne State Univ. Community Arts Gallery, Det, MI
1999:
- Art for Sale; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
- The Florida National; Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, FL
98-96:
- Art for Sale; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
- Combined Talents; Florida State Univ. Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee Fl
- Next: New & Upcoming Jewelry Artists Exhibition; Aaron Faber Gallery, NY,NY
- MSG:Michigan Silversmithing; Birmingham-Bloomfield art Assoc., B’ham, MI
- 33rd Annual Holiday All Media Exhibition; (1997) Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
- Invitational Holiday Exhibition; (1997) Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
- Eclectic Electric; (1997) Gallery Function Art, Pontiac, MI
- Functional Elegance; (1996) Gallery Function Art, Pontiac, MI
- Earl Pardon Memorial Exhibition; (1996) Aaron Faber Gallery, New York, New York
PUBLIC ART PROJECTS, AWARDS and DISTINCTIONS
2008:
- community+public art: DETROIT. Skillman Foundation grant for three mosaic benches. in southwest Detroit.
2006:
- Grant award from Michigan Association of Community Arts Agencies (MACAA) Community pARTners; Lead artist for summer project with Casa de Unidad: Community Arts Environmental Program at Romanowski Park, southwest Detroit, MI. Working with youth to create art in the garden, including four 4’x8’ murals, and four 8’ found-object totems.
2005:
- SW Detroit Environmental Vision Beautification Award, Runner-Up. Residential landscaping and beautification.
- Featured guest on Grosse Pointe WMTV Ch. 5 cable program Out of the Ordinary: Alquimia Humana interview and flamenco performance.
- Featured artist on WMTV Pointes of Horticulture, as Artist/Gardener.
- Channel 56 Artbeat featured artist.
2004:
- Grant award from the Michigan Association of Community Arts Agencies (MACAA), Community pARTners. Artist–in-residence, at Matrix Theatre, SW Detroit: Weaving a Path to the River, working with youth creating paintings, rock cairns and maintaining green space, to create awareness of the Detroit River as a community resource.
- Special Recognition Award from the Greening of Detroit for the Earth Mother Art Garden Park, in southwest Detroit.
2003:
- Grant Award from Michigan Association of Community Arts Agencies (MACAA), Community pARTners. East Meets West. Artist-in-residence with Vito Valdez, at Bagley Housing Association, Southwest Detroit, MI. Created green space, murals, sculpture and billboard to unite two sides of community split by freeway.
2001:
- Fox TV 2 Artist of the Month. Live interview 06/20/01.
98-95:
- Midwest Mineralogical & Lapidary Society Scholarship Award.
- Society of North American Goldsmiths/National Endowment for the Arts Minority Student Fellowship.
- Albert & Peggy DeSalle Scholarship Award in Metals
- Friends of Arrowmont Scholarship
PUBLIC and PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
- Gilbert Cardenas, Director of Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame
- Swords Into Plowshares Peace Center and Gallery, Detroit, MI
- Southwest Solutions, Detroit, MI
- Georgio Geikas, Venus Bronze Works, Detroit, MI
- JB Davies, JBD Realty, Birmingham, MI
- Skip Davis, Davis Design, Southfield, MI
- Richard Rollins, Alternative Workspace, Detroit, MI
- George R. N’namdi, GR N’namdi Gallery, Detroit, MI
- Fidel Cashero, Grunwald-Cashero, Canton, MI
- Right Management Consultants, Southfield, MI
