Education
1993 Master of Fine Arts - Rhode Island School of Design
1989 Bachelor of Fine Arts -Newcomb College of Tulane University
Exhibitions
2008 Crazy 8's St. Tammany Art Association
2008 Organized and participated
in "Art
to the Artic" Invitational
travelling exhibition to Dead Horse Alaska, Artic Circle and Back to
the Gulf Coast
2008 Hot Art in a Cool Space, UU Annual Invitational, Lacombe, LA
2008 Juried Exhibition: Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust: Funerary Urns,
Reliquaries and Vessels-St. Tammany Art Association- Spring for Art -
Honorable Mention- Bill Fagaly, Juror
2007 St. Tammany Art Association's 50th anniversary Members Exhibition
St. Tammany Art Association, Covington, LA
2007 42nd Annual Summer Juried Artists Exhibition St. Tammany Art Association,
Covington, LA
2007 Hot Art in a Cool Space, UU Annual Invitational, Lacombe, LA
2007 Games People Play, Tangipahoa Art Association, Hammond, Louisiana
2007 Jack Swanson Photo Exhibition St. Tammany Art Association
2007 UU Artist of the Month, Lacombe, LA
2006 Crazy 8's Annual Exhibition St. Tammany Art Association
2006 Hot Art in a Cool Space, UU Annual Invitational, Lacombe, LA
2006 St. Tammany Art Association members gallery
2001-2002 George Ohr Museum, Annual Juried Exhibition, Kiln & Quill,
Biloxi, MS
2001 Art in Bloom, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, La
1996-7 “ Isaac’s Gift” Isaac Delgado Fine Arts Gallery,
Delgado College, New Orleans, LA
1997-2000 MPCDS Faculty Exhibition, MPCDS gallery, Metairie, LA
1997 “Entergy Louisiana Open” Juried exhibition, Contemporary
Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
1997 NOCCA Faculty Exhibition, Valteau Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1996-7 “Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition” Contemporary Arts
Center, Invitational Exhibition, NOLA
1996-77 “12 x 12”, First RISD Juried Traveling Exhibition,
Providence, Boca Raton,FL, Philadelphia, PA, San Francisco
1995-7 "Celebration of the Egg", Invitational to Benefit Popp
Fountain, New Orleans Botanical Gardens, New Orleans, LA
1995 “Precious Nature ” Arthur Roger Gallery,NOLA
1995 “Vetropolis” Glass Invitational, Isaac Delgado Fine
Arts Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1995 Participant in “Artists Make Big Money”, Isaac Delgado
Fine Arts Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1995 “Arts in the Church; Lent ”, New Orleans, LA
1995 The Business of Art II, exhibition, Gallier Hall, New Orleans, LA
1994 Artists Against The Hungry and the Homeless, Reginelli’s,
New Orleans, LA
1994 Pairs, Hall Barnett Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1993 Little Picture Show, Hall-Barnett Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1993 Loyola Gallery, AIDS Commemorative, Invitational exhibition, New
Orleans, LA
1993 Fourth Anniversary-Grand Opening of Annex, Arts for Art’s
Sake, Hall-Barnett Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1993 “Winners of Toast to the Coast “ Serenity Gallery, Pass
Christian, MS
1993 “A Glass for Wine”, Christie’s, New York, to benefit
the New York Experimental Glass Workshop, NYC
1993 MFA Thesis exhibition RISD Museum, Rhode Island School of Design,
Providence, RI
1993 MFA-BFA-exhibition” Roitman Gallery, Rhode Island School of
Design, Providence, RI
1992 Stones Invitational, Sol Koffler Gallery, Rhode Island School of
Design, Providence, RI
1992 Toyama International Crafts Festival, Toyama, Japan
1992 “Ucchidere una Medusa”, solo exhibition Sol Koffler
Gallery, RISD,Providence RI
1992 Images of the Body, juried exhibition, Sol Koffler Gallery RISD,
Providence, RI
1992 “ Fire Water”, Sol Koffler Gallery, Rhode Island School
of Design, Providence, RI
1991 Rhode Island School of Design, Glass Biennial, Woods Gerry Gallery,
Providence, RI
1991 Choice Exhibit, Le Mieux Gallery, New Orleans.,LA
1991 Glass Eats Light, New Orleans School of Glass, New Orleans, LA
1991 Art and War, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
1990 Glass 90, Gallery I/O, New Orleans, LA
1990 New Orleans School of Glass, New Orleans, LA
1990 Pilchuck Staff Show, Stanwood, Washington
1990 20th Annual International Glass Art Society,
1990 Members Show, Foster White Gallery
1989 Newcomb Senate Spring Arts Festival Commission "Tie One On" Helium
Sculpture, n.o., LA
1989 Eastern Shore Art Association, Fairhope Alabama
1989 Breaking Tradition-II Place St. Charles Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1988 18th Annual International Glass Art Society, Kent Ohio
1988 Breaking Tradition-I Place St. Charles Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1988 Juried Exhibition-Newcomb Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Solo Exhibitions
2000 “Branching Out- Future Dimensions” w/ John Schwartz, Zigler
Museum, Jennings, LA
1996-7 “ Isaac’s Gift” Isaac Delgado Fine Arts Gallery, Delgado
College, New Orleans, LA
1995 “Precious Nature ” Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1994 “Hurricanes”, Loyola University Gallery, Danna Center, New Orleans,
LA
1992 “ Fire Water”, Sol Koffler Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design,
Providence, RI
1991 “Glass Monoprints from Pilchuck ", True Brew, New Orleans, LA
Publications
2008 The means by which we find our way:
Observations on design.Andrea WilkinsonSchool of Media Arts Waikato Institute
of Technology Hamilton, New Zealand- p.81
www.designproject.co.nz/themeans
2008 Covington Magazine
2008 St. Tammany Farmer
2005 Cover Design and 3D illustration Royal Society of Chemists Publication
issue 2 of 2005- Chem. Commun., 2005, (2), 166 - 167 DOI: 10.1039/b411915k
1997 Interview/ photographed for “Independent Spirit” Christine
Bordelon, Times Picayune, Kenner Section, Sunday, Nov, 16
1997 “Big Easy Does it- Dramarama V” The Times Picayune,
Section E Sunday Sept. 2,
1997 “Dramarama V” Lagniappe Section The Times Picayune,
Friday Sept. 5
1997 Interviewed for“ Cyberpets; Virtual Companions or Pet Crocks?” Barri
Bronston, Living Section, July
1997 The Times Picayune “ City Roots reflected in Badge” by
Vicki Hyman,Thursday February 27 Kenner section 2D1
1997 Review of work Offbeat Magazine, “Eye Music” by Doug
MacCash (review of Faber ge & “ Isaac’s Gift”)February
1997 Offbeat Magazine, “Eye Music” by Doug MacCash ( Happy
Birthday CAC)
1996 Photographed by Phillip Gould-“New Orleans, : Rolling on the
River”, Angus Lind & Michael Tisserand, Towery Publishing 1996.p.
184-181996Photographed by Michael P. Smith "New Orleans Jazz Fest;
A Pictorial History" as “ Costumed Dancers" for Washboard
Leo on the Professor Longhair Stage1996 Big Easy Does it, Times Picayune
Living Section,Sunday, Sept. 15th,.( Photo- DramaRama)
1996 DramaRama 4, Times Picayune Living Section, Saturday, Sept. 7th,
.
1996 “Birthday pARTy”, July 4th,, Time Picayune, by Barri
Bronston, Cover Page and Living Section- E
1996 Kenner Star, July ,
1996 The Blue Knight, Kenner, LA
1995 New Orleans Art Review “Three Exhibitions”, by Stephen
Bachmann, Sept / Oct issue
1995 “An Artistic Approach to Easing the Pain of Infertility” Times
Picayune March 8, by Barri Bronston,
1995 Time Picayune, “ Salute to Women”, and Celebration of
Women Calendar pp. D1,6 Wed. March 1,
1995 National Geographic, January, “Upbeat, Downbeat, Off Beat,
New Orleans” by Prit Vesiland
1994 Art in America, Annual Guide to Artists, Museums and Galleries
1994 “Hurricanes Hit the Danna Center Gallery” The Loyola
Maroon; Sept. 9, review by Andrea Jackson
1994 Times Picayune “ Uptown Line” by Patricia Livingston, “Ace
Celebration”
1995 “Artivities”, Gambit Magazine, New Orleans, LA Lecture
and Exhibit at Loyola
1994 Gambit, March 15, Volume 15, No.11 “ Big Easy Riding on the
Info Highway” Photograph
1993 RISD Views, Rhode Island School of Design
1993 The Phoenix New Paper- May Providence,RI
1992 Corning New Glass Review- 13 Juried International Glass Review “ James
Brown’s Blue Suspended Souls”
1991 Times Picayune/ States Item Sunday April 14” Sleek Sculptures
Make Modern Statements” review of “ Glass Eats light”,
by Roger Green
1990 Stanwood/Camano News Wednesday, August 1, “Pilchuck Glass
Artists show summer’s work at Gallery
1989 Dixie Roto of Times Picayune /States Item “Napoleon House”
1987 USA TODAY Friday April 17th, Interview/Photo K-Paul’s Louisiana
Kitchen
Awards
1997 Award of Excellence, 31st Annual Art Directors and Designers Association
of New Orleans Awards
1997 First Place “Celebration of the Egg” Juried exhibition,
Pavilion of Two Sisters, New Orleans
1996 Mayor’s Proclamation of “ Carrie Lee Pierson Day” in
the City of Kenner
1995 Award of Excellence, 30th Annual Art Directors and Designers Association
of New Orleans Awards
1995 Mayor’s Certificate of Appreciation for Contribution to the
City of New Orleans
1994 Nominated for Pace-Roberts Foundation Residency Program, San Antonio,
TX
1993 Art in Education Project Grant in collaboration with School of Glass
Works “Glass Sensations”
1993 Graduate Award of Excellence, Rhode Island School of Design ; Graduate
Faculty Committee Jury
1992 Full Scholarship, Toyama Institute of Glass, International Crafts
Festival, Toyama, Japan
1992 Robbins Today Award, Rhode Island School of Design
1991-93 Graduate assistantship, Rhode Island School of Design
1988/89 Dean’s List, Newcomb College
1989 Mary L.S. Neil Prize, Newcomb College
1989 Downman Foundation Travel Award to Italy , Newcomb College
1989 Claudia Woolworth Watkins Endowed Scholarship Award, Newcomb College
1988 Rusty Collier Memorial Award for Studio Art, Newcomb College
Lectures and Demonstrations
2004 THE GIMP vs Adobe Photoshop- 1st Linux Fest, University College,
Elmwood Campus.
2000 Lakeside Camera and Imaging 35 mm Photography & Digital Darkroom
2000 “Branching Out - Future dimensions” Digital/ art workshop
Zigler Museum, Jennings, LA
1997 Delgado Fine Arts Department, New Orleans, LA
1997 West Bank Artist’s Guild, Gretna, LA
1995-6 University of New Orleans, Fine Arts Department, New Orleans,
LA
1995 Louise S. Mc Gehee’s School, Art Department, New Orleans,
LA
1994 Loyola University, Art Department, New Orleans, LA
1994 Xavier University, Graduate School, Dept. of Education, Advanced
Seminar Children’s Literature
1994 “Art and Alzheimer’s” Alzheimer’s Care and
Enrichment Celebration, Jewish Community Center, N.O., LA
1994 Country Day Creative Arts Camp, Noontime Program Lecture, Metairie,
LA
1994 Trinity Episcopal School, New Orleans, LA
1993 Tulane University, sponsored by the Glass Department and T-Nasa
1992 RISD Computer and the Fine Arts, Graduate Seminar, Macromind animation
/ video demonstration
Special Projects
2005 3D visualization of Nano Sctructures for Yunfeng Lu from 2D electronmicroscope
photos, Tulane University
2004 CD design and Photography for "Parlez Gras" EP
2003 Video Documentary- IMAGINE THE BAND- performance, Howlin'Worlf,
NOLA
2002 Web Design- QUEST FOR THE UNKNOWN, with E.Willy P.
2000 Metairie Park Country Day Fulbright Master Teacher Program Japan
Exchange Team Technology coordinator and Web Designer
2000-1 MPCDS ISAS Fine Arts Festival Web Weaver http://www.mpcds.com/ISAS/isasfest1.html
1996-00 Participated and contributed to the Telecommunity online Projects
with students in New Orleans http://www.telecommunity.org ( new orleans
listing)
1998 Guest Juror, St. Bernard Art Association, International Trade Mart
Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1996-7 Consultant to the City of Kenner Police Department for design
and fabrication of a new badge and shoulder patch
1997 The Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network, Louisiana
Institute for Arts in Education Advocacy Group, New Orleans and South
Louisiana Task Force member
1996 Computer and the Arts instruction, Arts Department, Louise McGehees
School, New Orleans, LA
1996 New Orleans Center for Creative Arts ( NOCCA)- Lead Teacher-- Urban
Systemic Initiative
1995 “Arts and Fertility: A Wellness Workshop” Seminar Tulane
University Medical Center
1994 "Evidence of Action" Creative Happening with Tennis II,
Country Day Creative Arts Camp
1994“Time Visualized” Collaborative project with 6th and
7th grade students, Trinity Episcopal School, New Orleans,
1994 Commissioned performance and lecture, Trinity Episcopal School,
New Orleans,LA
1993 “ Reflections” Installation, Bayou St. John and City
Park lagoon, NO, LA
1993 Glass instruction and collaboration with Tibetan Monk; Lobsang Samten
1992 RISD-IBM jazz animation project
1992 RISD-Apple project for design of a new interface
1992 Invited to consult with the city of Providence, RI’s Down
city Task Force” on the development of an Arts District
Commissions
1995-97 “Evidence of Action I, II & III” Contemporary
Arts Center, DramaRama III, IV & V, New Orleans, LA
1992-97 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, Board of Trustees,
Limited Edition, Festival Button Design
1995 “Words from Women at Work”, N.O. Public Library Periodicals
atrium, New Orleans, LA commissioned by the the N.O. Mayor’s Office
of Women owned Businesses
1991 Glass Gravityworks Installation, New Orleans School of Glassworks,
New Orleans, LA
1989 Newcomb Senate Spring Arts Festival, “Tie One On”, Helium
Balloon Sculpture, New Orleans, LA
Collections
Translations; Glass Braille, , Louisiana Children’s Museum, New
Orleans, L,1997-2003
Saburo Sugibayashi, Toyama, Japan
Video
2002 Still for University College TV commercial, Paul Greely Director,
Ed Merrit Producer, NOLA
2000 Video Footage and Interviews for IDC fund raising and MPCDS Capital
Campaign Kickoff
1999-1 ISAS Video Documentation, MPCDS - Digital Editing and production
1998 Interviewed for “Artist’s Make Big Money” by Doug
McCash, Premiere-Delgado College, New Orleans, LA
1994 “Evidence of Action” Documentation of collaboration
with Tennis class, MPCDCA camp, Metairie, LA
1994 “ Big House Shutters”, “ Mind Games”“Marble
Sky”, “ Downtown” computer generated animation
1993 “Reflections” documentary of glass outdoor installation,
NO, LA
1993 “ Firewater“ documentary of “Firewater exhibition,
RISD
1992 “Blind to Love”, “ Pixel Play”, “Red
Dat Dots”, and “ Rondo a la Vetro” Short computer generated
animations
Teaching Experience
2001-present Senior Professor of Practice, Full time Faculty Media Arts/
Digital Design, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
1997-01 Director of New Media Lab and Faculty/ Staff Training, Computer
Graphics instructor and Yearbook advisor Metairie Park Country Day School,
Metairie, LA
2001 Instructor, Tulane University College, Intro to graphics , New Orleans,
LA
1997 Creator and Instructor of Digital World I & II, Computer Art
I & II, Country Day Creative Arts Camp, Metairie, LA
1995-6 Creator and Instructor for Computer in the Arts, Lead Technology
Teacher for Urban Systemic Initiative
1995-6 Computer Literacy Instructor, New Orleans Center for the Creative
Arts ( NOCCA), New Orleans, LA
1995-6 Adjunct Assistant Professor-Fine Arts Department, Graphic Design,
University of New Orleans, LA
1996 Instructor; Atomic and Digital Games I &II, Digital World I & II,
Country Day Creative Arts Camp, Metairie, LA
1995 Talented in the Arts - Instructor, McMain Magnet and Ben Franklin
High School, New Orleans, LA
1994-95 Instructor Country Day Creative Arts Camp; The Computer as An
Artist's Tool I & II,Cartooning I & II, Metairie, LA
1994-95 Art instructor, Alzhiemer’s Care and Enrichment Program,
Jewish Community Center, New Orleans, LA
1994-95 “Arts Reach P.M.” Art instructor, grades k-6th; Hynes
and Gentilly Terrace Elementary Schools, New Orleans, LA
1994 Art instructor, Project Independence, ( Newly Blinded Adults), Jewish
Community Center, New Orleans, LA
1994-97 Substitute Art Instructor; Metairie Park Country Day & Louise
McGehee’s School, New Orleans, LA
1993-94 Instructor, Computer Mentors, Entergy Arts Business Center, New
Orleans, LA
1993-94Instructor, Printing from Glass plates, New Orleans School of
Glass, NO,LA
1993 Teaching Assistant, Glass Department, Rhode Island School of Design
1993 Instructor; Beginning Hot and Cold Glass, Spring Semester
1991-93 Teaching Assistant Advanced Academic Computer Center and Market
House MAC Center, RISD, Providence, RI
Conferences and Workshops
2007 New Media Consortium Tulane University
2004 Macromedia MX
2003 New Media Experience
1999- 2002 ACM SIGGRAPH
2001 Learning Styles ilc tu
2000 Independent School Management workshop, Technology Leadership in
a Networked School, Wilmington, DE
1999 Classroom Connected Conference, Interenet Learning, New Skills for
a New Age, Houston, TX
1998 New Horizons HTML
1997 Jean Lafitte National Park Teacher’s Workshop
1995 Getty Center for the Arts Southeast Center for Education in the
Arts- Education in Music, University of Chattanooga, TN
1992 Full Scholarship- Toyama Institute of Glass, Toyama Japan, Glass
workshop with Pino Signoretto-Ist International Crafts Festival, Toyama,
Japan
1989 Full Scholarship- Pilchuck Glass School, Session 4 Hot Glass Sculpture
with Bill Morris and Pino Signoretto of Venice, Italy
1989 Partial Scholarship- Pilchuck Glass School, Session 5 Engraving
and printing from glass, with Jiri Harcuba of Czechoslovakia
1989/91 Watercolor Instruction, Stanislav Libensky, Pilchuck Glass School
1988-89 Stephen Paul Day, Pino Signoretto, Bill Donnan, Richard Jolly,
Asahara Chiyoji, Curtiss Brock, Tulane University
1970’s Isamu Nogouchi, Peter Volkous, and Gene Koss Tulane University
Theatre and performance
2001 Dance Choreographer for MPCDS for “Mambo”, ISAS Arts
Festival, Austin, TX
2000 Dance Choreographer for MPCDS for “Make my Feet Dance”,
ISAS Arts Festival, Dallas, TX
1999 Scenic Artist for “Not Waving”, CAC directed by Dane
Rhodes, New Orleans, LA
1999 Dance Choreographer for MPCDS for “OK Computer”, ISAS
Arts Festival, tulsa, OK
1998 Dance Choreographer for MPCDS for “Garden Dance”, ISAS
Arts Festival, Dallas, TX
1998 Prop Designer with John Schwartz for MPCDS production of “Little
Shop of Horrors”, MPCDS
1997 Dance Choreographer for Metairie Park Country Day School for “Garden
Dance”, ISAS Arts Festival, Dallas, TX
1997 Scenic artist, for designer David Potter, Tulane Summer Lyric Theater, “ Peter
Pan”
1991 Designer; “Museum; Wet Dream Left Out To Dry”, Trinity
Rep Conservatory
1991 Set Painter/ assistant to David Raphel, Stamford Theater Works,
Stamford, CT “Listen To The Lions”
1991 Set Painter/Designer's assistant, "La Cage au Folles",
Tulane Summer Lyric Theater, Rick Paul,Designer
1991 Set Painter/Designer's assistant, Werner & Lowe Production,
under Juan Urrea, Tulane University
1989/90 Set and Costume Designer, Junior Lyric Theater, New Orleans,
LA "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" 5/89, "The
Wiz"5/90
1989 Scenic Artist,Tulane Summer Lyric Theater under David Raphel, Designer
for "Gigi" and "42nd Street”
1978 Choreographer and Dancer, Newcomb Spring Arts Festival as soloist
in Appalachian Spring, & Tea for the Tillerman
1975 Dancer as “Huntsman” in “Peter and the Wolf”-
Leilia Haller, Loyola University Ballet
1966 Dancer as "Mouse” in “Nutcracker Suite”-
Leilia Haller Ballet Recital, Dixon Hall,Tulane University
Art Studio
1993 Studio Assistant, Dennis Oppenheim, NYC, NY
1993 Internship/ Image and concept research, Fountainhead Productions,
NYC, NY
1993 Internship/ Studio Assistant, Eve Andre Laramee, Brooklyn, NY
1993 Internship/ Studio Assistant, Dennis Oppenheim, NYC, NY
1993 Workshop / Demonstration and consultant to Atelier New Orleans,
Printing from Glass Plates, NO, LA
1992-93 Studio Assistant, Michael Scheiner, Central Falls, RI
1987-89 Assistant to Gene Koss, Professor of Glass Dept. Newcomb/ Tulane
in Fabrication of glass sculpture
1986-89 Newcomb College Art Dept. studio assistant: Glass Studio, Photography
Lab, Sculpture Foundry and Printmaking Studio.
Member
American Insititute of Graphic Artists
New Orleans Film Society
New Orleans Multi Media Users Group
Art & Science Collaborations, Inc.
New Media Consortium
ACM SIGGRAPH
Rhode Island School of Design-Alumni Board and Louisiana contact
Newcomb Alumni Association- Board member and Newcomb Fellow
Northshore Camellia Society ( founding member)
Ducks Unlimited
Northshore Cajun Dancers
former member of the
Folsom Native Plant Society and
The American Rose Society
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