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| PROFILE |
| Florida native, professional artist, painter, sculptor, wearable art designer, photographer, digital artist, jeweler, creates unique Florida landscapes and Spacescapes®; 31 solo shows, Florida, New York, San Francisco, Miami, invitationals, juried shows, U.S., China, Germany. Former photojournalist, covered space program, news, feature writer. |
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| SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS |
| Professional training in painting, sculpture, wearable art design, welding, electroforming, digital art, desktop publishing. Helped set up Digital Art Institute at Stetson U., served on Committee to Select Art for Fifth District Court of Appeals, Daytona Beach. Development director, wrote successful county grant, Ensemble Theatre, Melbourne; art show judge. |
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| PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE |
| Owned and maintained art studio 1965-present, owned and maintained website gallery at www.spacescapes.com; former photojournalist for Florida Today Newspaper, Reuter News Service, Fairchild Publications, Melbourne Times, Development Director, Ensemble Theatre, Melbourne, public relations associate at Watermark Public Relations - wrote press releases, arranged clients' tv and news stories. |
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| EDUCATION |
B.A.-Humanities-the Arts, painting, sculpture, music, writing, theatre. U.C.F.,1986
A.A. Seminole Community College, cum laude, University of Florida, painting, Arrowmont School of Crafts, electroforming, jewelry and wearable art design; Brevard Com. Col, welding; McFatter Technical School digital art.
Nova College of Law - summer program, Ft. Lauderdale, Criminal procedure, Negotiable Instruments.
Sculpture Fellow, Atlantic Center for the Arts.
Painting workshops, Florida, N.C. California, France, Greece |
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| ACTIVITIES |
Works in public and private collections: Former First lady Betty Ford, sterling silver eagle pendant, commissioned by Creel Elementary School for dedication gift; St. Charles Cathedral, 9 bronze Altar pieces; 5' high steel sculture, U. of Florida Medical Library, commissioned by Gainesville Dental Guild; 5' high copper electroformed sculpture, Minuteman, for Cocoa Beach H.S.; 6'square digital mural for lobby of Heart of Florida United Way building, Orlando; Titusville City Hall, bronze sculpture purchase award.
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| HONORS |
Won 2nd place Kodak National Innovator Award for large format digital printing; Digital work "Koi," published in Photography 7th Edition, Prentice-Hall; Orlando Modern Art Collection, purchase award, Coral Springs, FL., best of show; invited to show bronze sculpture at EPCOT;s International Flower Show, sculpture garden, 2004; Invited to show art and write paper for Mars Millennium project by NASA, Planetary Society, NEA, White House at www.mars2030.net for artists' ideas on living on Mars.
Invited by NASA to show Cassini Tracking Saturn I on Cassini Website
Won Penney-Missouri Journalism Award, Florida Today |
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