EDUCATION
Multimedia and Video Art. University of Iowa, Iowa City. 1994. M.F.A.
Awards: The Eve Drewlowe Scholarship, Graduate Teaching Fellowship
Independently-Designed Interdepartmental Degree in Book Arts. University of Minnesota. 1998. B.A.
Awards: Honors Thesis Grant; Undergraduate Research Opportunity Grant. James Ford Bell Library.
Academic Honors: Phi Beta Kappa. Magna Cum Laude.
Internships: Young People's Programs, Metropolitain Museum of Art; Education, Walker Art Center.
Supplementary Coursework at Minneapolis College of Art & Design; Minnesota Center for Book Arts
TEACHING
Summer Six Faculty. Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY. 2007.
Developed intensive 4-week workshop entitled Inscribed Pages, utilizing letterpress & bookbinding.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Art History. Maine College of Art, Portland. 2007.
Critical Issues. Led a 12-week seminar for BFA students that addressed texts from artists, critics, historians, philosophers and theorists while taking on compelling questions of what it is to be a practitioner in North America in the Twenty-first century.
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Art. University of Maine, Orono. 2007.
Criticism & Theory. Structured a new syllabus for this course in Art History [Winter/Spring]
Senior Instructor, Department of Art. University of Oregon, Eugene. 1994-2006.
As Digital Arts faculty, taught Multimedia Survey, Communication Design, Design Tools, Letterform: Letterpress, Digital Letterform, Landscape of Art – a Freshman Interest Group [FIG] merging Landscape Architecture and Art, Liberating the Page, Contemporary Issues, Basic Design and Drawing. Implemented Printers' Marks, Printed Ephemera, and Word/Image Fusion intensives. Established the Typography Lab by securing donations of presses, job cases and vast quantities of foundry type. Licensed digital font libraries. Installed a photopolymer platemaker. Supervised student workers, as well as GTFs. Staged exhibitions. Archived and disseminated students' output. Engendered collaborations and exchanges with groups in Minneapolis, Chico State and Glasgow School of the Arts.
Instructor/Graduate Teaching Fellow. University of Iowa School of Art and Art History. Iowa City. 1991-1994.
Developed courses in Intermedia for graduate and undergraduate students. Lead the Colloquium.
Faculty. Artist Bookworks. Chicago. 1991.
Taught workshops and created a storefront installation.
Faculty. Minnesota Center for Book Arts. Minneapolis. 1988-1990.
Conducted workshops in papercasting, printing and binding. Had previously served as intern in exhibitions, public outreach, bindery, papermaking facility and letterpress areas.
Instructor. Education Department. Walker Art Center. Minneapolis. 1986-1990.
Devised thematic family workshops and gallery tours. Assisted in the administration of the ArtLab. Created special hands-on events for visiting practitioners, including Rodney Alan Greenblatt, Scott Makela, and Laurie Simmons. Assisted with Contemporary Art Forum and docent training.
ACTIVITIES
Guest Lecturer & Typographic Educator. Die Graphische. Vienna, Austria, 2008. [upcoming]
Visiting Artist. Bowdoin College. Brunswick, Maine, 2007. [upcoming]
Curator and Exhibition Designer. Porteous Tractatus. BFA Thesis Exhibition. Maine College of Art.
Presenter. Multifold Iterations: Letterpress as Critical Practice. 4th Int'l Conf. on the Book. Boston. 2006.
Speaker. Principled Pleasure: Presswork in PDX. TypeCon2006. Boston, 2006.
Visiting Artist/Designer. Creative Writing MFA program. University of Colorado, Boulder, 2005.
Discussant. ART21. Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Eugene, 2005.
Faculty Liaison. Formation and support of UO AIGA Student group, 2004-06.
Member. ATYPI [Association Typographique Int'l]; SOTA [Society of Typographic Aficionados], 2003-08.
Contrubutor. James Craig's educational site www.designingwithtype.com, 2004.
Founding Member. Creative Material Group, a non-profit arts collective. 2004-present.
Event Coordinator. Projet Mobilivre/Bookmobile. Eugene, 2003.
Juror. Mayor's Art Show. Jacobs Gallery. Eugene, 2003
Juror and Visiting Lecturer. My Independent Industry. Southern Oregon University, Ashland, 2002.
Guest Lecturer. Or/and/or. Western Oregon University, Monmouth, 2001.