professional experience

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Current Founder and Director, The Dreamsters Union
Current Certified Core Alignment Creativity Consultant and Coach
Current Co-director, Compassionate Action Enterprises.
Current Private Instructor, Studio Art; Contemporary Art Issues; English; Freelance Editor.
Current Contributing Author, Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom, Wise Brain Bulletin, essayist.
2002 Guest Lecturer, California Polytechnic University, Visiting Artists Lecture Series, San Luis Obispo, California.
2000 Guest Lecturer, Shinsu University, Ueda, Nagano, Japan.
2000 Guest Lecturer, California State University Stanislaus Visiting Artists Lecture Series, Turlock, California.
2000 C0-founder, Compassionate Action Enterprises, in collaboration with Joan Giroux. Compassionate Action Enterprises promotes art and interaction  geared toward Ecofeminism/environmental ethics, social, political and cultural activism.
1999 Presenter, National Conference on Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution, Phoenix, Arizona.
1999 Guest Lecturer, Montgomery College Visiting Artists Lecture Series, Takoma Park, Maryland.
1998 Guest Lecturer, Department of Art and Design, University of Kansas, Lawrence Kansas.
1997 Guest Lecturer, Department of Art Studio, University of California, Santa Barbara.
1996 Visiting Artist, Kingston University, Kingston Upon Thames, England.
1996 Guest Lecturer, Department of Art Studio, University of California, Santa Barbara, January, March 1996, course: New Forms Sculpture.
1995-96 Artist’s Assistant, Studio assistant to Kim Yasuda. Projects assisted on: Galarza Public Art Project, San Jose California; Green Line Metro Project,  Los Angeles, California; Hollywood Metro Project, Hollywood, California, Unquiet, LIST Center for the Visual Arts, Massachusetts Institute of  Technology; Installation at Camera Works, London, England.
1995-96 Artist Liaison, Food from the Hood. Worked in collaboration with students at Crenshaw High School, South Central, Los Angeles, to create an  element of a public art project in response to the Los Angeles Uprising/life in South Central Los Angeles.
1995-96 Assistant Director, Ro Snell Gallery, Santa Barbara California.
1995-96 Director of Art, Albion Repertory Theatre Company, Santa Barbara, California.
1995 Curator of Children’s Art, Santa Barbara Coastal Project 1995.
1994 Research Assistant, Department of Art Studio, University of California, Santa Barbara.
1993-94 Associate Teacher, Department of Art Studio, University of California, Santa Barbara. Dialogue on the nature of sculpture and the role it plays in  contemporary art and culture.
1992-93 Teaching Assistant, Department of Art Studio, University of California, Santa Barbara. Assisted professors
in the areas of: Sculpture, Printmaking, Drawing, and Contemporary Art Theory.