SELECTED HISTORY
Freelance Film Technician, USA 1994-present Contributing artist and IATSE member Various art department credits on independent and studio films (including: production designer, construction coordinator, standby painter, and hairdresser). Filmography available at http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0589064/ California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA 2023-2024
Faculty Technical Director in the School of Theater
St. John’s College, Meem Library, Santa Fe, NM 2002, 2004
Designed, fabricated and donated sculptures to the college relevant to the curriculum Untitled sculpture of Euclid’s Elements, Book One, on permanent installation in Meem Library Model of Tycho Brahe’s Armillary Spheres, temporary exhibition Santa Fe Catalogue, Santa Fe, NM 2004 Photographer’s Assistant California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA 2002
Guest Contributing Artist/Fabricator/Welder Sculpted heads for a Cerebus robot, welded the body and contributed to the robot’s ambulation. Welded a headpiece with a mounted camera to be worn by a stage actor whose image would be projected into the heads of the robot. The performance, Theâtre des Animaux, was the work of artist Zaven Pare and based on the literary works of Valère Novarina. MFX1, Chicago, IL 2001 Contributing Artist/Fabricator Constructed walls and wired an interactive, responsive floor in what would become a temporary experimental club-media space and an example of living architecture Silver Lining Graphics, Chicago, IL 2001-2002
Photographer’s Assistant Artemesia Gallery, Chicago, IL 2001 Contributing Artist Ladyfest Midwest (Juried) Art Festival Flat File Gallery, Chicago, IL 2000-2002
Represented Artist Participated in various group photography shows, featured solo exhibition of three dimensional interactive installations Objects of Interest, Chicago, IL 1999-2001 Assistant/Consultant to the owner and Project Manager Researched artifacts, created a digital database of inventory, translated design specs into Nepali for textile production in Kathmandu, Nepal The Field Museum, Chicago, IL 1999
Contributing Artist Commissioned line drawing and donated photographs (from personal archive) to Sounds From the Vault, an interactive exhibition of a virtual orchestra of musical artifacts Around the Coyote 10th Annual Art Festival, Chicago, IL 1999 Contributing Artist Solo Documentary Photography Exhibition John Morrison Photography, Chicago, IL 1998-2001 Photographer’s Assistant MSI Strategic Communications, Chicago, IL 1998-2000 Freelance Videographer Art & Science Salon, Evanston, IL 1990-1994
Hairdresser specializing in color and men’s barbering
EDUCATION
St. John’s College, Summer Institute for Islamic Classics, Santa Fe, NM 2016 St. John’s College, M.A. Eastern Classics and Classical Chinese, Santa Fe, NM 2014 Nom Ekhe Language School for Foreigners, Beginning Mongolian, Ulaan Bataar, Mongolia 2013 Middlebury College Language School, Beginning Japanese, Oakland, CA 2012 St. John’s College, B.A. Liberal Arts, Santa Fe, NM 2006
Chicago Filmmakers, Avid Nonlinear Editing, Chicago, IL 2000
Independent Travel, Europe, Western and Southeastern Africa, India and Nepal, Mongolia, Japan 1996-present Hare Krisna Silversmith, Apprenticeship, Pushkar, India 1997
Haskana Institute, Cosmetology License Program 1990
AWARDS
Kathryn Davis Fellowship for Peace 2012
Fellowship to study Japanese language through Middlebury College Summer Intensive Language Program at Mills College
St. John’s College, Annual Prize for best French translation 2006 Translated selected poems from Les Fleur du Mal by Charles Baudelaire St. John’s College 2005
Scholarship for Academic Achievement and Constructive Community Service The Comer Foundation, Grant to participate in CITY2000 2000 Anthropological study through photographing Chicago residents’ refrigerator doors
PUBLICATIONS
Our Rhythm Our Blues, Volume 2: Ladies First 2021 Contributed essay “Dear Other Woman” Otherwise Engaged Literature and Arts Journal, Summer Quarter Edition 2018 Contributed still photographs and a written piece, “Doubt & Intuition: A Romantic Comedy” The Fringe October 2003 “MATHEMARTRIX” featured artist article Pasatiempo, The Santa Fe New Mexican’s Weekly Arts & Culture Magazine May 23-29, 2003 Interview and Article on Euclidean Sculpture by Terri Randall The College, Winter Quarter Edition 2003 Photo and caption of Euclidean Sculpture BLISSTER, Process to Untitled Projectors Collage, Ladyfest Midwest Artist Catalogue 2001 The Motor, Demo album cover for a band 2001 CITY2000.org, website publication (the November page) 2001
SERVICE
Girls Inc., Santa Fe, NM, Annual arts and crafts show volunteer 2010, 2011 Fine Art for Children and Teens, Santa Fe, NM, Tutor and instructor’s assistant 2004-2005 Trilogy Hair Salon, Chicago, IL, Organized a fundraiser for JYOTI (a CWSN project) 2001 Flat File Gallery, Chicago, IL, Conducted artistic grant writing workshop 2001 Marketplace Handworks of India, Chicago, IL, Fundraising presentation 2000 Child Welfare Scheme Nepal (CWSN), Pokhara, Nepal 1997, 1998 Visual documentation (still and moving images) and restaurant management Mount Valley Education Center, Pokhara, Nepal, Schoolteacher 1997