Artist: Entrepreneur, marketing creative design, illustration, graphic layout, and contemporary images.

Software Mac and PC environment
Adobe CS3: Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop.
Microsoft Office Vista: Front Page, Word, Outlook, and Power Point.
Quickbooks Pro 2010

Traditional Tools
Acrylic Paint, Watercolor, Color Pencil, 35-mm, and Digital Camera.

Curator
Black Arts Fest Art Exhibit’ Festival Sundiata 2011. Seattle Center Fisher Palvilion Seattle, WA
Black Palette Art Exhibit’ Festival Sundiata 2010. African American Art Museum Seattle, WA

Graphic Design and Illustration
Seattle of Seattle DOP; Graphice design marketing material poster, postcrad and email flyer design. Seattle, WA 2011
Menashe and Sons Jewelers; web maintenance - internet ads. Seattle, WA 2011
JRW Structures, Bass Inc..; Logo - business card - website creation and maintenance. Seattle, WA 2010
Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle; Graphic design layout. Post cards, Labels, and Magazine ad. 2010
Puget Sound Nurse Practitioner Association; Logo - website creation and maintenance. Seattle, WA 2007
West Seattle Community Clinic; Logo - website creation and maintenance. Seattle, WA 2007
Ujima Community Services; Logo business cards, catalog, website creation and maintenance. Seattle WA 2006
Grace Publishing Company; Book cover design - Book layout and design - website creation. Dallas, TX 2005
Video Sports Challenge, Inc.; Logo - business cards - web site creation. Houston, TX 2004
LJR Group, LLC; Logo - web site creation. Dallas, TX 2004 - 2010
Colors NW Magazine; Layout 1/4 page ads for existing customers. Seattle, WA 2001
The Empty Vase; Logo design for store front Banner. Beverly Hills, CA 1999
Madison Park Design; Illustrator, color pencil illustration of Star-bucks coffee house interior. Seattle, WA 1997
Festival Sundial; Design for Festival Sundial Poster. Seattle, WA 1997
Folk Life Festival; Designer, The 26th Annual Northwest Folklife Festival Poster. Seattle, WA 1997
Urban League of Seattle; Designer, Eight Annual Sepia Fashion Revue; Brochure Cover. Seattle, WA 1997
Bantu Magazine; Art Consultant, cover design and magazine layout. Seattle, WA 1996

Instruction
South East Effective Development; UrbanTOTES: Graphic Design Workshop. Rainier Beach Plaza, Seattle, WA 2010
Pratt Fine Arts Center: Acrylic Painting, Collage, and Journal Making Seattle, WA 2010
Rainier Valley Youth Theater; Subject Urban Graphics and African American Art, Seattle, WA 2007
South East Effective Development; Rainier Beach Banner Project, Develop a Graphic Design Curriculum for
High School Students to design 25 3' by 5' community banners, Seattle, WA 2007
Gear UP; Instructor Lego Robotics Summer Academy. Lesson Plan and Lego Robotic building. Seattle, WA 2006
Madonna K-8; Extended Day Instructor, Perspective Drawing (Art in Geometry) Seattle, WA 2004/05/06
Meany Middle School; Mad Math Thursday Instructor, Perspective Drawing (Art in Geometry) Seattle, WA 2005/06
Gear Up; Instructor Futures Cities Summer Academy. City Design and Layout in scale. Seattle, WA 2005
Seattle Center Academy; Art Instruction, editing images with Photoshop. 2005 Rubber Soul; Instructor of Journal making workshops.
Redmond and Poulsbo, WA 2003/04/05
Paper Zone; Instructor for Journal Making Techniques Northwest Rubber Stamp Festival. Tacoma, WA 2002
Artworks; Instructor for students' summer project to paint a 8' by 28' mural. Seattle, WA 1998
Paper Zone; Instructor and Demonstrator for Journal Making Techniques. Seattle, WA 2001
Safeco; Graphic Designer, layout and design retail bag for community businesses. 2000
Seattle Center Academy; Art Instruction, Daily art projects. 1998

Public Works
Urban League Metropolitan of Seattle; “Project Interruption” Lead a group of youth workers to develop a design. Illustrate and paint
a 4’ by 40’ mural. Seattle, WA Catharine Blaine K-8; 12' by 40' a mural for their Rock climbing wall. Seattle, WA Seattle
Youth Core; Lead a group of youth workers to develop a design proposal. Illustrate and paint a 22' by 40' bill board for
“The Seattle Commons Project”. Seattle, WA. Metro; Design and paint Metro Bus Shelter, Rainier & Hudson, Columbia City. Seattle, WA
Garfield Community Advisory Council; Illustrator responsible for summer event “ We Love Garfield “ design and paint
14' by 22' wall at 24th & Cherry. Seattle, WA Bailey Gatzert Elementary School; Lead students to create, Illustrate, and paint a
12' by 40' mural. Seattle, WA

Solo Exhibits
Jeffrey Taylor Columbia City, Seattle, WA; Solo Exhibit. 2011
Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA Solo Exhibit. 2010
Gwen Ovid Art Gallery, Oakland, CA; Solo Exhibit. 2006
Gwen Ovid Art Gallery, Oakland, CA; Solo Exhibit. 2003
Langston Hughes Cultural Arts Center, Seattle, WA; Solo Exhibit. 2001
Upland Art Gallery, Yorba Linda, CA; Solo Exhibit. 1999
Nordstrom Gallery, Sea, Sfo, Lax, San, Slc, Bwi, Chi, Jfk, Phl; Solo Artist. 1998
Folk Life Festival, 26th Annual Northwest Festival; Solo Artist Sea, WA. 1997
Baas Art Gallery, Seattle University; Solo Exhibit. 1996
Pratt Fine Arts Center, African American Artists; Seattle, WA; Group Exhibit. 1996
Seattle Pacific University, Solo Exhibit. 1994
Kinsey Gallery, Seattle University; Solo Exhibit. 1993

Group Exhibits
Fine Art Oakland 2001, Oakland, CA; Group Exhibit. 2001
San Francisco Black Arts Festival San Francisco, CA; Group Exhibit. 2001
Sea-Tac International Airport, Seattle, WA Group Exhibit. 1999
National Black Arts Festival, Atlanta, GA; Group Exhibit. 1998
Hampton Art Exhiibit, Seattle, WA Group Exhibit. 1997

Collections
P. Scott Commins Collection; Seattle 2006
Montgomery Estate; Los Angles. 2004
Green River Community College; Auburn, WA. 1998
J Paul Blake Collection; Renton, WA. 1993
King County Metro; Seattle, WA. 1994

Education
NxLevel Business Net Work; NxLevel Entrepreneurial and Business Management. 2003
Horizon Professional Computer Services; Power Point 7.0. 1999
South Seattle Community College; Small Business Administration. 1989
Seattle Central Community College; General Studies. 1987
The Burley School of Professional Art; Seattle, WA. 1981

"I create vibrant art and contemporary design that bring color and energy to your life!”  artwork@hiawathad.com