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Art Curator/Resident Artist
Colorado Springs, CO
Jan 2024 - Present (2 years 5 months)
Curations inside Sevens Gate Tap House in downtown Colorado Springs. A haven for Dark Art, Pop Surrealism and the Bazaar. Hosting art openings every quarter to keep Lowbrow/Dark Art a part of the CO Springs culture. Building bridges for the rising Outsider Artists
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Established Art Educator
Colorado Springs, CO
Jan 2017 - Present (9 years 5 months)
Write proposals for art adult and youth art courses and workshops by semester. Organize supplies for courses. Present material in a professional presentation. Create a fun and safe atmosphere where students can learn the fundamentals of various art practices they can utilize in life. Record daily rosters. Classroom managment.
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Former Founding Member Colorado Creators' Guild
Colorado Creators' Guild
Colorado Springs, CO
Apr 2015 - Present (11 years 2 months)
Member relations, former promoter/designer of a Guild,
recruiting members, distributing fliers, revinue generatiing comittee,
curator, art exhibitor, cashier
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Curator/Art Director/Muralist/Resident Artist
Colorado Springs, CO
Jan 2015 - May 2024 (9 years 4 months)
Research Colorado artists for quarterly shows and featured solo exhibitions. Book musicians, live painters, vendors for events. Jury in artists for exhibitions. Organize art in a professional presentation on both floors of the gallery wall space. Market the exhibitions on various platforms. Mentor up an coming artists on professional presentations of there work. Design event fliers.
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Colorado Brewery Label Designer
Metric Brewing CO/Cerberus Brewing CO
Colorado Springs, CO
Jan 2016 - Jan 2019 (3 years)
Communicate and meet with breweries to gather vital information in designing Crowler labels. Working with various soft wear like Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Photoshop. Provide preliminary designs for approval. Keeping organized and executing professional label designs that work with the brand. Worked with Metric Brewing CO. and Cerberus Brewing CO.
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Art Educator
Pikes Peak Library District
Jan 2016 - 2019 (3 years 5 months)
Worked as a contract Art Educator, design course curriculum, organizational sills, time management, taught various lessons to all age groups, and classroom managment.
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Freelance artist
Independent newspaper
Colorado Springs, CO
Jan 2015 - Dec 2017 (2 years 11 months)
Freelance artist designing
cover pages for the local CO. Springs newspaper.
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Art Curator
Fifth Element Gallery-Tattoo
Colorado Springs, CO
Jan 2015 - Aug 2016 (1 year 7 months)
Come up with themes for art shows,
scout and advertise for artists, distribute fliers for
future art shows, marketing and exhibiting artist
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Mattel Freelance artist
Mattel
Sanger, CA
Jan 2012 - Jan 2014 (2 years)
Air brush work for toy design prototypes.
Color planning
matching colors to spec sheets
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Comic Strip Artist
Dailey 49er
Long Beach, CA
Jan 2008 - Sep 2010 (2 years 8 months)
create weekly comic strips for the campus newspaper, created an ongoing
comic strip called Crabby Times inspired cartoon characters and based around pollutions focuse in the ocean.