Experience

Mt. Hood Community College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Professor/Instructor of Painting

  • Aug 2016 - Present

  Painting and drawing area head. Creating pathways of success for students in the arts within the community and surrounding area. Connecting students to transfer institutions, career opportunities, galleries, museums and related industries. Teaching all levels of painting as a means of expression, technique, cultural/historical diversity and identity, therapy, and enrichment of quality of life. Unit planning, curriculum assessment and planning. Student advising, recruitment and retention of art majors and minors. General Education task force committee. Faculty Evaluation committee to revise the tenure manual. Faculty Association Senator for Integrated Media, Visual Art and Performing Arts. Access and Diversity committee. Connecting and forming articulations with area colleges and universities so students have transfer options. Developing and expanding a visiting artist series. Oversight of 2D studio technician's duties. Manage painting/drawing building studio and supply orders.



Maloney Productions

• Greater New Orleans Area

• Art Director and Head Scenic Designer

  • Nov 2008 - Mar 2016

  Set design and artistic direction for a company embedded in the cultural fabric of New Orleans. Designing 1/4" color scenic designs, producing, painting, and finishing large set elements and backdrops up to 65x32’ as part of set tableaux for ballet, opera, television, film, and historic Mardi Gras balls. Restoration of historic set elements from antiquity. Teaching, training, hiring, and management of art department staff. Responsible for art department studio maintenance, upkeep, and purchase of supplies and equipment. Maintaining NOSHA safety standards. Worked with payroll and ownership to resolve workforce management issues, inequity, and warehouse safety.



Tulane University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Adjunct Professor of Art

  • Jan 2012 - Dec 2014

  Instruction in all painting and drawing classes. Instruction in all painting and drawing classes.



Metairie Park Country Day School Creative Arts

• Greater New Orleans Area

• Summer Program Workshop Teacher

  • Jun 2011 - Aug 2014

  Instruction in mural painting, renaissance painting, mosaics, and expressionism painting with gifted and talented students grades 2-9th. Created course syllabi exceeding art standards for state and charter school policy. Instruction in mural painting, renaissance painting, mosaics, and expressionism painting with gifted and talented students grades 2-9th. Created course syllabi exceeding art standards for state and charter school policy.



Jacksonville University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Assistant Professor of Art

  • Aug 2008 - Aug 2009

  Instructor for all painting, drawing, and foundations courses. Foundations and Painting Area head. Management of Adjunct Professors. Student advisor. Art Club advisor. Senior Seminar advisor. Committee work for new sustainability major. Committee member for art department accreditation review. Student recruitment and portfolio review. Art history lecture for Fogle Fine Arts series. Participant in painted “Empty Bowls Art Project” for auction to fund a soup kitchen for the homeless. Led creation of anti-smoking mural with art and nursing students. Curriculum development.



Tulane University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Visiting Assistant Professor

  • Aug 2007 - Aug 2008

  Teaching all levels of painting and drawing. Student recruitment and portfolio review. Critiqued graduate and undergraduate student work for graduation thesis review. Teaching all levels of painting and drawing. Student recruitment and portfolio review. Critiqued graduate and undergraduate student work for graduation thesis review.



Escuela Cervantes Fundacion Hispanoamerica de Arte

• Kenner, LA

• Part-time Professor of Painting

  • Aug 2002 - Aug 2005

  Instructor for bilingual advanced oil painting at a LatinX/Hispanic Art Academy serving the great New Orleans, Kenner, and Metairie, LA areas. Accentuation on Latin-American art, painters, cultural imagery, concepts, and art history. Instructor for bilingual advanced oil painting at a LatinX/Hispanic Art Academy serving the great New Orleans, Kenner, and Metairie, LA areas. Accentuation on Latin-American art, painters, cultural imagery, concepts, and art history.