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 Palette Art Exhibit’ Festival Sundiata 2010. African American Art Museum Seattle, WA

Graphic Design and Illustration
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 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
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. 1986 The Burley School of Professional Art; Seattle, WA. 1981 Seattle Central Community College; General Studies. 1978

 

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