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Resume 2008- Printer Formatted File (pdf) April – Dec 2007 – City of Las Cruces Museum System – Personal Services Contract and Contract Employee (ManPower) Contact projects: April - Gallery Remodeling Conversion from a History gallery to a changing Art Gallery. Created gallery floor plans and elevation drawings, including construction details for wall conversions. Worked with museum staff on all aspects of wall construction and finishing. May-December – Las Cruces: Crossroads of History Exhibit Exhibit planning and development, gallery design and layout, interpretive panel design and layout, development of the exhibit plan documents, project schedules; fabrication detailing and drawings; graphic design and production of maps, illustrations; processing of historical photographs, maps and graphics. Creation of graphics production files and supervision of printing. Graphical panel fabrication, print mounting, and panel installation. Artifact case layouts, furniture detailing and some artifact installation. Attending coordination meeting and presentations with museum system staff. Jan. 2006 - Present - City of Las Cruces Museum System - Exhibit Tech and Contractor Employee projects - Jan-Feb Installed the "Rocketland Exhibit" at the Branigan Cultural Center, created floor plan and elevation drawings for the exhibit spaces at the BCC, and managed the museum system web site. Contract projects - Sept - Present Prepared working drawings for preparing the BCC exhibit spaces for the King Tut Exhibition, prepared the interior graphics and photographs and assisted with installation. Continuing exhibition and organizaiton work for the museum system on an as needed basis. Dec. 2002 - Present - Visual Artist/Designer/Organic Gardener, Las Cruces
Created, exhibited and marketed fine art paintings and sculptures.
Created a professional art/museum/gardening web site in Dreamweaver
and Flash MX. Key accomplishments: Developed
new personal styles and vocabularies Developed a web site featuring
my museum work, Created a bio-dynamic, organic kitchen
garden for the year round Written 32 monthly articles for the Master Gardener Newsletter Created and maintained a web presence for the North Valley Neighborhood Association. Served on the steering and publicity committees for NVNA. (www.nvna-donaana.com) Developed and maintain a website
for 2Lane Highway Productions – “Bataan
Making of a Memory” documentary film (www.2lanehighwayproductions.com) 1998 – Dec. 2002 - Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum, Las Cruces - Exhibit Designer Created and managed the Museum’s Exhibit Department. Supervised exhibit staff and interns; hired and supervised contractors; trained staff, contractors and interns. Prepared performance evaluations, work schedules and exhibit schedules; tracked work time and costs for individual exhibit projects. Designed, produced and installed interpretive exhibits and graphics, developed exhibit and graphics design vocabularies and voluntary learning approaches, coordinated in-house and contract exhibit projects. Played a key role on the Exhibit Committee, the Interpretive Master Plan Committee and on all exhibit project teams. Key accomplishments:
Created and managed a productive, cost efficient exhibit Museum Project Manager - Generations Exhibit - the first permanent exhibit. Coordinated the design, production and installation work with design/fabrication and installation contractors in Boston and Portland and with the in-house fabrication team. Created exterior exhibit plans for the museum grounds, including design vocabularies, space layouts, flow plans, exhibit structure and panel systems, the Children’s Discovery Barn and development plans. Prepared presentation materials and presented the plan to the Board of Directors Co-wrote and managed the grant for Agricultural Communities, the Museum’s first traveling exhibit, including budget projections, cost accounting and reporting. Designed,and supervised the exhibit project and managed the two year traveling schedule. Developed, in collaboration with the Office of Archeological Affairs (State of New Mexico) Beyond Borders. Managed the exhibit team and budget, designed, fabricated and installed the exhibit in the Governors Gallery (Santa Fe) This traveling exhibit has been shown in Deming, New Mexico and is currently in Mexico. Initiated, coordinated and installed the first Art in Agriculture Show (an invitational art exhibit) in collaboration with ArtForms Researched, planned and coordinated development, fabrication and installation of Agriculture in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, a 3,000+ sq .ft. temporary exhibit. Took digital photographs and video of local agriculture and irrigation systems through all seasons of the year. Interviewed local farmers, dairymen and water managers. Designed the exhibit, prepared and printed all images, graphics, illustrations and interpretive panels; collaborated on text and label writing, prepared fabrication drawings, and floor plans. Coordinated fabrication and installation Chaired the Visitor Services Committee through the process of evaluating and recommending improvements in visitor services. Prepared and presented the Committee Report Served on the Steering Committee for the statewide interagency New Mexico Digital Collaborative Project to establish digitization standards, storage and access procedures for cultural and informational organizations Trained museum staff and interns in Illustrator, Photoshop, QuarkXpress, PageMaker, Acrobat Publisher, Project 98 and Cumulus applications as well as in digital photography, image scanning, large format printing and digital file management Lead the project team through the development of the Museum's first web site and managed the the web contract Created an interactive computer program demonstrating the potential for repurposing digital content developed for physical exhibits into a multimedia format suitable for CD and/or Web distribution 1989 - 1998 - Visual Artist, California and New Mexico Full
time ceramic sculpture and landscape painting, managing the business
of art, writing and publishing educational/promotional materials
in paper and electronic formats. Created and maintained a personal
art Key accomplishments: Established a national market for my landscape paintings and ceramics Designed and published my first art web site 1987 - 1989 D. Shillingburg, Museum Exhibits California - Planner/Designer Planned, designed and supervised the fabrication of indoor and outdoor interpretive exhibits for museum and land management agencies. Designed, prepared and printed brochures, maps and promotional graphics for multiple clients. Key
accomplishments: Presented training sessions on exhibit
planning and interactive exhibits at Designed, prepared and supervised
the printing of 30 individual park 1981 - 1987 - East Bay Regional Park District California - Chief Preparator Manager and Project Leader for the exhibit laboratory that planned, designed,fabricated and maintained all park visitor center facilities and interpretive exhibits. Developed and managed operating budgets. Prepared one, three and five year plans. Hired and supervised staff and contractors. Researched and developed exhibit content, wrote exhibit text and supervised the writing, design and illustration of interpretive publications. Key accomplishments: Transformed the Exhibit Lab
from an under performing, costly service Initiated a custom exhibit planning
process and standard PMI Wrote a safety manual for the storage,
handling and use of all exhibit materials, and working procedures
for exhibit fabrication and installation. Created an Created a graphics darkroom and
silkscreen facility at the Exhibits Lab. Developed, managed and presented the first Exhibit and Graphic Design Workshop - a four day in residence training program for land management field personnel and museum professionals. Researched, designed and
fabricated the Beach, Bay and Beyond exhibit Researched, designed and fabricated all exhibits for the Garin Barn Visitor Center at Garin Regional Park. (focus on historic farming and ranching in the Oakland Hills) Researched, developed and produced
design and fabrication drawing 1967 - 1981 - Oakland Museum - Oakland, California - Preparator Supervised the fabrication
and installation of permanent exhibits for a new Collected and prepared botanical,
invertebrate Took thousands of field photographs
of California flora, fauna and habitats Designed and operated a freeze-drier
for preparing gross anatomical Presented lectures on exhibit design
for the University of Nevada, Initiated the first California Species Show (an annual art and illustration exhibit) 1963 -1967
- Sacramento Junior Museum - Sacramento, CA Conducted museum tours, classroom lectures and live animal programs for youth and adult groups. Maintained living animal exhibits, designed and fabricated interpretive exhibits. Collected, catalogued and housed natural history collections including taxidermy of specimens. Key accomplishments: Provided youth with an exposure to
nature, wildlife and conservation Created and maintained a live animal
lending program. Wrote interpretive Developed and taught Boy Scout
Merit Badge classes on meteorology Education 1964 B.S., Park Management, Life Sciences minor,
Sacramento State University 1960 A.A., General Education-Engineering, Stockton Junior College Training 2005 Video Production – DABCC Digital Graphics
Class Memberships Doña Ana County Extension, Master Gardeners
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