EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts - Painting and Sculpture, With Honors, 1987, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California. Studied with Robert H. Hudson, Robert Colescott, Barbara Rogers, Carlos Villa, Ivan Majdrakoff, Inez Storer, Leslie Lerner, Sam Tchakalian, Pegan Brooke, Irene Pijoan and others.

Bachelor of Fine Arts - Painting and Drawing, Cum Laude, 1983, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas. Studied with John Boyd, Diane Thomas Lincoln, Ronald Christ.

HONORS AND AWARDS

2010
2nd Place, Hi-Desert Nature Museum, "Climate Change," Yucca Valley, CA

2009
Winner of the National Parks Conservation Assciation's Joshua Green Business Program Logo Contest cash award.

2008
1st Place, cash award. California Desert Coalition “Green Path” Poster contest
2nd Place, “Creature Feature,” Exhibit, A Roadside Attraction Gallery, Twenty Nine Palms, CA

1992
Special Service Award - Whitney Young Child Development Center

1987
Accepted: Artist-in-Residence Program -Nevada State Council on the Arts

1984-1985
San Francisco Art Institute Grant

1983
Mabel F. Gillespie Scholarship Award
Clayton Staples Scholarship Award
Miller Art Scholarship Award

A FEW GRAPHICS REFERENCES

California Desert Coalition - Images used in posters, cards, advertisements and for kids to color!
Carlisle Co. -Toy Designs
Cardazone Design Associates -Line Drawings by hand, Illustrator and Photoshop
Frontlines newspaper - Banners, column headers, political cartoons, etc.
Haight Ashbury Beat Newspaper - Numerous Zono Comikz strips
Morongo Basin Cultural Arts Council - Designed numerous logos, fold out map, advertising illustrations.
Publicis Dialog Worldwide Marketing Agency -Illustrations for Sprint Phone Advertisements, in Paint and Adobe Illustrator
Slots.com, Inc. -"Skin" and "Rollers" for web slot machine game
Spensley.com -Character development for Flash animation series, Cartoon Illlustrations and Computer Graphics for t-shirts, web, and print
Whitney Young Child Development Center, Inc. -Designed Awards utilizing computer enhanced child-drawn art, Humorous Illustrations for Advertisements, Awards, Political Posters, and more