Experience
ART AND DESIGN EMPLOYMENT
1990-2007 Freelance graphic design and illustration, digital and traditional; exhibiting artist
2007 Art Director, condition30.com Flash game development
2001-2004 Multimedia Developer, UBC Faculty of Land and Food Systems Learning Centre
- Identity design: logos, newsletters, ads; incorporating/updating legacy branding
- Print design: formatting classroom support material, prepress
- Web design: creation and maintenance of two sites
- Photography: events, research projects and portraits for publications
- Video: shooting, editing; for online and for VHS archives
- Management: multimedia lab, petty cash, equipment loans, purchasing
- Instruction: see below under Teaching Experience2000-2001 Senior Designer, User Friendly Media/www.userfriendly.org
- Creation and development of ad campaigns for the company and their clientele
- Print design: corporate ID, cobranding, prepress for offset and silkscreen
- Web Design: look and feel of three sites
- Photography: portrait1993-1994 Apprentice, Courtland Benson antiquarian book restoration and fine binding
- cloth rebacking
- de-acidification and repair of paper
- book sewing
- casing; box making
RESEARCH POSITIONS
1996-2007 Independent Research
- history of Canadian illustration, 1950-present
- catalogue raisonne and biography of Olive Allen Biller2005 Researcher, FH Varley Art Gallery, Markham, Ont.
- primary research on the private papers of Kathleen McKay and Fred Varley
- assistance with the 2007 Varley portrait show
- comparative assessment of works at the AGO and the Varley Gallery
- some packing and handling, assisting prepator, exhibit display2005 Research Assistant, Visible City project; Dr. Janine Marchessault, York University
- research of artists in Toronto; interviewing artists and events
- office assistance; course prep
- web design
- writing about the project for the website1999 Intern, British Museum, Dept. of Oriental Antiquities
- assistance on special sculpture project
- cataloguing1999 Intern, Vancouver Art Gallery
- compiled annotated bibliography on Leon Golub, for curator Ian Thom
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2005 Teaching Assistant, ACS 205: Writing as a Cultural Act. Arts and Contemporary Studies, Ryerson University
- preparation and delivery of concepts from readings to two classes of 25 students each
- extra help in office hours
- exam invigilation; marking and grading2001-2004 Workshop Leader and Tutoring, UBC Faculty of Land and Food Systems Learning Centre
- several workshops monthly on Adobe Creative Suite, PowerPoint;
scanning, large format printers and plotters;
digital photography, drawing, colour theory, branding and visual communication
- ongoing tech support in graphics software and imaging on Mac/PC
- writing and updating of how-to handouts about Adobe CS, typography, colour, Powerpoint, imaging1993-1996 Tutor, drawing lessons for individuals
1993-1994 Instructor, (photography and painting), Victoria Youth Custody Centre
ARTS NON-PROFIT VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES
2007 Contributor, drawn.ca
2002-2004 Founder, UBC Farm Artist-in-Residence Program
2000-2001 Founder, Hyperspace DIY gallery
1996 Member and volunteer, Open Space, Victoria, BC
Member, with studio at XChanges artist-run gallery, Victoria, BC
1995 Curator, Royal BC Museum Illustrators Showcase, Victoria, BC
1994-1996 President, Island Illustrators Society
1992-1996 Founder, life drawing group, Artspace, Victoria, BC
1991-1994 Editor, Island Illustrators Society public newsletter magazine
