I’m a multidisciplinary mixed media, digital/fine artist, painter & illustrator, cartoonist, collagist, designer, arts educator, visual media specialist & multi-genre published writer, technology journalist, blogger & poet with graduate training in creative healing. Highlights of my Digital Media experience include being part of an award-winning team as in-between character animator for Berenstain Bears CD-Interactive, worked on a software program as creative liaison, which is a role I have taken on in a variety of productions, archival, acquisitions and digital artist in studio production on Wyatt Earp CD ROM - see my IMDb link more to come on there soon, production coordinator for a large digital arts festival where I saved the producer six figures in labor costs, assorted illustration, cartooning, and graphic design freelance gigs, collaborated with various technology startups, lab work as Digital Media Associate at Banff Centre training visual artists in narrative themed residence. Technology Journalism articles published from Los Angeles Conference Circuit including Getty collaboration to launch California CultureNet at the Governors Conference on The Arts 1999. Creator of my own drawing method to patent, cartooning, collage, mixed media, drawing and expansive art curriculum in further development from child through adult with children’s media emphasis visually digitally and in creative writing with my own pet projects. Illustrated two private custom projects for children’s picture books. Grant recipient from Los Angeles Arts Recovery Fund post the L.A. Uprising for community work with at-risk youth teaching my cartooning course and later combining the two groups in a digital lab producing an animation exhibit, as an invited SIGKIDS participant at SIGGRAPH. I’ve worked in taught children, youth and adults from many walks of life and populations. Other work of note: Production Assistant for Morris Day Daydreaming album, NBC Affiliate Station Production Coordinator, event production small to large scale for corporate real estate company, festivals & corporate including producing own craft fair, with pioneers of the Electronic Cafe International (world’s first internet digital cafe theatrical productions), managed real estate developer’s Art In Public Places Program with Los Angeles Gallery Contacts & Artists plus architectural elevation drawings, blueprints, and put together slide shows, & folio packages.

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I’m a multidisciplinary mixed media, digital/fine artist, painter & illustrator, cartoonist, collagist, designer, arts educator, visual media specialist & multi-genre published writer, technology journalist, blogger & poet with graduate training in creative healing. Highlights of my Digital Media experience include being part of an award-winning team as in-between character animator for Berenstain Bears CD-Interactive, worked on a software program as creative liaison, which is a role I have taken on in a variety of productions, archival, acquisitions and digital artist in studio production on Wyatt Earp CD ROM - see my IMDb link more to come on there soon, production coordinator for a large digital arts festival where I saved the producer six figures in labor costs, assorted illustration, cartooning, and graphic design freelance gigs, collaborated with various technology startups, lab work as Digital Media Associate at Banff Centre training visual artists in narrative themed residence. Technology Journalism articles published from Los Angeles Conference Circuit including Getty collaboration to launch California CultureNet at the Governors Conference on The Arts 1999. Creator of my own drawing method to patent, cartooning, collage, mixed media, drawing and expansive art curriculum in further development from child through adult with children’s media emphasis visually digitally and in creative writing with my own pet projects. Illustrated two private custom projects for children’s picture books. Grant recipient from Los Angeles Arts Recovery Fund post the L.A. Uprising for community work with at-risk youth teaching my cartooning course and later combining the two groups in a digital lab producing an animation exhibit, as an invited SIGKIDS participant at SIGGRAPH. I’ve worked in taught children, youth and adults from many walks of life and populations. Other work of note: Production Assistant for Morris Day Daydreaming album, NBC Affiliate Station Production Coordinator, event production small to large scale for corporate real estate company, festivals & corporate including producing own craft fair, with pioneers of the Electronic Cafe International (world’s first internet digital cafe theatrical productions), managed real estate developer’s Art In Public Places Program with Los Angeles Gallery Contacts & Artists plus architectural elevation drawings, blueprints, and put together slide shows, & folio packages.

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I’m a multidisciplinary mixed media, digital/fine artist, painter & illustrator, cartoonist, collagist, designer, arts educator, visual media specialist & multi-genre published writer, technology journalist, blogger & poet with graduate training in creative healing.

Highlights of my Digital Media experience include being part of an award-winning team as in-between character animator for Berenstain Bears CD-Interactive, worked on a software program as creative liaison, which is a role I have taken on in a variety of productions, archival, acquisitions and digital artist in studio production on Wyatt Earp CD ROM - see my IMDb link more to come on there soon, production coordinator for a large digital arts festival where I saved the producer six figures in labor costs, assorted illustration, cartooning, and graphic design freelance gigs, collaborated with various technology startups, lab work as Digital Media Associate at Banff Centre training visual artists in narrative themed residence.

Technology Journalism articles published from Los Angeles Conference Circuit including Getty collaboration to launch California CultureNet at the Governors Conference on The Arts 1999.

Creator of my own drawing method to patent, cartooning, collage, mixed media, drawing and expansive art curriculum in further development from child through adult with children’s media emphasis visually digitally and in creative writing with my own pet projects. Illustrated two private custom projects for children’s picture books. Grant recipient from Los Angeles Arts Recovery Fund post the L.A. Uprising for community work with at-risk youth teaching my cartooning course and later combining the two groups in a digital lab producing an animation exhibit, as an invited SIGKIDS participant at SIGGRAPH. I’ve worked in taught children, youth and adults from many walks of life and populations.

Other work of note: Production Assistant for Morris Day Daydreaming album, NBC Affiliate Station Production Coordinator, event production small to large scale for corporate real estate company, festivals & corporate including producing own craft fair, with pioneers of the Electronic Cafe International (world’s first internet digital cafe theatrical productions), managed real estate developer’s Art In Public Places Program with Los Angeles Gallery Contacts & Artists plus architectural elevation drawings, blueprints, and put together slide shows, & folio packages.

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Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Freelance Fine Art Illustrator/Digital Media Artist/Multidisciplinary at Wildest Imaginings
December 31, 2004 - Present
Drawing & illustration research & development of method in images & written knowledge w/ creative breakthrough & therapeutic arts to improve artistic processes & skills, to patent, test w/ focus groups & neuro researchers Studio work; drawing, illustration, traditional & digital collage/montage, mixed media, painting, photography, photo-art Art Course & Curriculum Designs Future Planning; experimental, experiential, inventive, online modules, rubrics, community playshops, creative guide, circles, impart drawing freedom technique, tour as guest teaching artist Digital Media; batching, archiving, inventory, tradigitals, color management, Procreate, Adobe CSS, Photoshop, Acrobat https://www.linkedin.com/services/page/940301332040879a31/ Content / Article Writer ( Multi-Format | Multi-Style | Essay | Humor ) FREELANCER – Las Vegas, NV | 10+ years to Present - Designed curriculum in successful art programs from Pre-K to adult across populations. - Managed crises, immediate pivots, events,VIPs w/ adaptability from complex situations. - Contributed brainstorms, pitches and developed original content ideas to publications. - Written high-quality articles with quick turnarounds and improved with feedback. - Interviewed extensively across multiple articles/projects including top technologists. - Researched backup source materials to claims with fact-checking, editing and proofing. - Developed technically with sharp eye for grammatical details and command of English. - Wrote content on 7 socials, 3 blogs, 15+ articles, 6 NF series excerpts for benchmarks. - Investigated/compiled timely complex medical reports/advocacy for 3 patients-in-crisis. - Digitized add-ons for articles, blogs and ads with enhanced images, graphics and layout.
Special Projects Creator, Artist/Writer, Multigenre, Multi-format at Wildest Imaginings
July 29, 2011 - Present
SPECIAL PROJECTS CREATOR – Las Vegas, NV | 10+ years to Present - - Building 1st of (3) application series in ClaudeAI navigating prompts text to image. - Published Poet in multiple print, online projects and publications 30+ years. - Prepared 101 pages for selected poetry manuscript with images on a rush order. - Contributed poem/photo-art to Nevadan-to-Nevadan Poetry Project to meet deadline. - Anthologized in Mischief, Caprice and Other Poetic Strategies revising long distance. - Collaborated with 40+ poets on “A Nevada Collaborative Poem” in Covid uncertainty - Published award-winning Sierra Club Earth Day essay in LV Sun for 82K+readers. - Composed, edited and proofread 14 short and long fiction works-in-progress. Content / Article Writer ( Multi-Format | Multi-Style | Essay | Humor ) FREELANCER – Las Vegas, NV | 10+ years to Present - Designed curriculum in successful art programs from Pre-K to adult across populations. - Managed crises, immediate pivots, events,VIPs w/ adaptability from complex situations. - Contributed brainstorms, pitches and developed original content ideas to publications. - Written high-quality articles with quick turnarounds and improved with feedback. - Interviewed extensively across multiple articles/projects including top technologists. - Researched backup source materials to claims with fact-checking, editing and proofing. - Developed technically with sharp eye for grammatical details and command of English. - Wrote content on 7 socials, 3 blogs, 15+ articles, 6 NF series excerpts for benchmarks. - Investigated/compiled timely complex medical reports/advocacy for 3 patients-in-crisis. - Digitized add-ons for articles, blogs and ads with enhanced images, graphics and layout.
Digital Media Artist/Writer, Technology Circuit Article Writer on Emerging Technologies at Independent Contractor
June 1, 1986 - March 15, 2005
Los Angeles, CA & Northern California Digital Media Artist & Writer | 06/1986 - 03/2005 Apprenticed in digital fine art printmaking at Duganne Ateliers, Jack Duganne who coined term "Giclee" Studio work in film colorization using polygonal color field inbetweening to render Turner Classic films 2-D Character Animation Inbetweener for Award-Winning Berenstain Bears CD-I, groomed other animator on Amiga Batch processing contractor gigs in-house studios, also risked teaming w/ start-ups in commercial & pre-launch fails Worked in music industry, NBC affiliate news studio, and on large scale traditional & digital events for corporate business, festivals, SIGS, Electronic Cafe Intl Soirees, organizational meetings, team collaborations Cartooning, Digital Art & Animation as teaching artist & own courses, exhibitor presenter at SIGKIDS SIGGRAPH Production Artist, Amazing Media's Wyatt Earp CD-ROM, travel research scanned historical archives at ASU Library Digital Media Arts Associate at Banff Center for the Arts, Alberta Canada for Narrative Arts Residency Ability to adapt & orient to proprietary software, hardware, and studio project protocols for operations Technology Journalism; on SoCal some NoCal tech conference circuit, some published in print to online, some dead files, focus on emerging arts & technology, evolved w/ fascination of science writing Contributing writer to professional technology organizational newsletters, council member & probono creative Children's Media focus on projects, non-violence in media, Children's Interactive Media Festival Event Committee

Education

Bachelor of Arts at Sonoma State University
November 4, 2024 - November 4, 2024
Studio Art/Painting with mixed media & liberal arts studies

Qualifications

Teaching Artist Certificate
April 20, 2003 - June 15, 2003
Inaugural Cohort of Individual Artists by MCED & Los Angeles Arts Commission approved to teach LAUSD
Computergraphics Certificate
September 15, 1984 - June 15, 1986
West Coast University, Los Angeles CA
Digital Fine Art Printmaking Apprentice
January 10, 2003 - June 7, 2004
Duganne Ateliers, with grandfather of digital find art printmaking Jack Duganne, who coined the term Giclee, Santa Monica, CA
Media Arts Associate Certificate
September 17, 1995 - December 6, 1995
Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada

Industry Experience

Education, Media & Entertainment, Professional Services, Consumer Goods, Software & Internet, Real Estate & Construction, Non-Profit Organization
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    Business card I designed for myself using Canva with a digital scribble design that I am using as a banner across my social media present impart for consistent identifying purposes. I was excited to find this font and then play with the colors for wildest, imagining as a logo. This was my first foray into Canva with a completed graphic design project as an example of some of what I can do and also advertising more skill sets and creative and custom services I have to offer.