Curriculum Vitae | Teaching Resume

CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION:

M. A.        1975 - Sacramento State University, Sacramento, CA.

B.F.A.      1972 - San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA.

M.F.A.      2005 - San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA. (Anticipated graduation.)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Gallery Coordinator, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, San Francisco, CA.  2001- present

Art Instructor (Part-time), San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA. 1999-2001

Art Instructor (Full-time), California State University Monterey Bay, Seaside, CA. 1996-1998

Art Instructor (Part-time), Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, CA.  1996-1998

Academic Advisor, University of New Mexico, Los Alamos, NM. 1993-1995

Instructor/Academic Advisor, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM. 1991-1992

Program Director, YWCA Mission Girls’ Services, San Francisco, CA  1987-1991

HONORS, AWARDS AND COMMISSIONS:

2003	Local Heroes Award, KQED Latino Heritage Month KQED San Francisco Public Television, and California State Automobile Association
2002	25^th Year Anniversary Award Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
1996	Leadership in Public Art Award Mural with Youth, Espanola, New Mexico,
1995	Spanish Market Contemporary Award Santa Fe, N.M.
1995	“Shared Traditions: Modern Expressions” Award of Mural Selection Northern New Mexico Community College, Espanola, NM.
1995	Arts in the Community Grant State of New Mexico
1995	Commission, Children’s Mural Indian Hills Elementary School, Gallup, NM.
1993	Distinguished Recognition in Art Award National Association of Chicano Studies, San Jose, CA
1991	Commission, Children’s Mural, CARA: Chicano Art Resistance and Affirmation Exhibition San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1988	Visual Artists Fellowship—Sculpture National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
1985-86	Member, Citizens Committee on Community Development City of San Francisco, CA.
1982-83	Visual Artist Grant California Arts Council, State of California
1982	Graphic Design Award (International Competition) Mission Mental Health Services, San Francisco, CA.
1974	Award of Merit (As founding member of Mujeres Muralistas.) San Francisco Arts Commission

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS And PUBLIC PROJECTS:

2005	“Vandals,” The Thatcher Gallery, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
2004	"Dia de Los Muertos," Legion of Honor, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
	“Creatve Collectives: Chicana Painters Working in Community,” (featuring works by Co-Madres Artistas and Mujeres Muralistas) C.N. Gorman Museum, University of California, Davis.
	"Dia de los Muertos," Corazón del Pueblo Book Store, Oakland, CA.
	“Chicana Painters Working in Community,” (featuring works by Co-Madres Artistas and Mujeres Muralistas in honor of the Book Creative Collectives), California State University, Sacramento, CA.
2003	“Just Another Poster? Chicano Graphic Arts in California," (silkscreen poster exhibition), La Raza Galeria Posada at the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA.
2000	"La Flor y la Calavera: Altars and Offerings for the Days of the Dead,” (installation exhibition), Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA.
	"Chicanos en Mictlan: Dia de los Muertos in California," The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA.
	"Valle de la Luna," (works by Mexican Latino and Chicano artists), Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA.
1999	"Making Change," The Tzedakah Box, Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA.
1998	"Art and Education," Euphrat Museum of Art, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA.
1997	“Las Latinas,” Galeria Tonantzin, San Juan Bautista, CA.
1996	"Nuestra Senora” (celebrating the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe), Copeland Ruthford Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
1995	Group Exhibit, Horwitch Lew Allen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
	"La Ofrenda,” (Dia de Los Muertos Exhibition), The Mexican Fine Arts Center, Chicago, IL.
	Mural, "Shared Traditions-Modern Expressions,” Northern New Mexico Community College, Espanola, NM.
1994	"El Mundo del Arte de Nuevo Mexico,” New Mexico Cultural Festival, Book Fair, Jalisco, Guadalajara, Mexico.
	“Dos Decadas de Artistas Chicanas (1972-1990): Envisioning and Transforming Culture," Women’s Center Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA.
1993	”The Art of the Other Mexico: Sources and Meaning," The Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago, Illinois. (Traveling exhibit: Mexico City, and the U.S.)
1992	“The Chicano Codices,” Encountering Art of the Americans, The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA. (Traveling exhibition.)
	"Shrine Show,” Owings-Dewey Fine Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
	“Guadalupanism,” La Pena Cultural Center, Austin, Texas.
	“Two Paths. Part I & 2,” Daniel Saxon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. and Kimberly Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1990	“Milagros, Ritos y Otros Asuntos," (Miracles, Rites and Other Things), Dow & Frosini Art Gallery, Berkeley, CA.
	"Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation," UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.

PUBLIC PRESENTIONS/INTERVIEWS:

2004	“The Art of the Matter” Television Series, Ovation Arts Network. Eleanor Dickinson, Moderator. May 2004 cable television interview discussing role of Mission Cultural Center as central showcase for Bay Area Latino/Latina artists.
2003	“West Coast Live!” Radio Show. Sedge Thompson, Moderator. November 2003 nationally broadcast radio interview with Professor Mark Johnson. Discussed digital mural created during tenure at Monterey Peninsula Junior College, entitled, “La Fruta del Diablo,” which Professor Johnson described in At Work: The Art of California Labor. (Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2003.)
1998	“A Celebration of the Print: the 200th Anniversary of Lithography,” Southern Graphics Council International Conference, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. Presented “La Fruta del Diablo,” a digital mural printed on vinyl.

SELECTED COLLECTIONS:

The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA

La Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA.

The Museum of Modern Art, NYC. (Patricia Whitman, Curator.)

Carmen Lomas Garza, San Francisco, CA.

Mike Ruiz, San Francisco, CA.

Ester Hernandez, San Francisco, CA.

Gary Soto, Berkeley, CA.

Amalia Mesa-Baines, Monterey Bay, CA.

Daniel Galvez, Oakland, CA.

Ray Patlan, San Francisco, CA.

San Francisco Chicana Foundation

David Bischoff, Sacramento, CA.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ochoa, Maria. Creative Collectives: Chicano Painters Working in Community. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003, pgs. 27, 33-36, 38-39, 41-42, 46-47, 54-55, 91. 95, 96.

Mark Johnson. At Work: The Art of California Labor. Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2003, (Forward by Gary Brechin, Afterword by Tillie Olsen), pg. 96.

Moréchand, Laurence. "Indeigéniste de Toute Beauté." Paris, France: Femmes Artistes International No 44. (Oct.-Dec. 2002), pgs. 27-29.

Noriega, Chon A., ed. Just Another Poster?: Chicano Graphic Arts in California. Santa Barbara, CA: University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2001, pg. 128.

Henkes, Robert. Latin American Women Artists of the United States: The Works of 33 Twentieth-Century Women. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 1999, pgs. 175-183.

Cockroft, Eva, John Pittman Weber, and James Cockcroft, eds. Towards a Peoples Art: The Contemporary Mural Movement. 2d ed. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998. Pgs. 36, 70, 107, 256. Pl 6 and 17.

Gaspar De Alba, Alicia, Chicano Art Inside/Outside the Masters House: Cultural Politics and the CARA Exhibition. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998, pgs. 120-123, 214.

Fuller, Diana Burgess and Daniela Salvioni. Art/Women/California 1950-2000, Parallels and Intersections, Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998, pgs. 130, 177-184, 190.

Ochoa, Maria.  Cooperative Re/Weavings.  Mexican American Studies Center, University of Arizona: Perspectives in Mexican American Studies, 5 (1995).

Goldman, Shifra M. Dimensions of The Americas: Art and Social Change in Latin America and the United States, Chicago, Il: University of Chicago Press, 1994, pgs. 209-210, 212-213.

Broude, Norma and Mary D. Garrard, eds. The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970’s, History and Impact. New York: H. N. Abrams, 1994, pgs. 240-242.

Drescher, Timothy W. San Francisco, Mural: Community Creates Its Muse. 2d ed. St. Paul, MN.: Pogo Press, 1994. Pgs.109, 272, 306, 309, 316, 324, 363, 391-193, 400, 402, 403, 420, 403, 420, 447, EB80, EB85.

Cockcroft, Eva Sperling and Holly Barnet-Sanchez, eds. Signs from the Heart: California Chicano Murals. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1993. pgs. 68-83.

Art of the Other Mexico: Sources and Meanings. Chicago: Mexican Fine Arts Museum, 1993. Pgs. 82-84 and 104.

Mission Mural Walk Map. San Francisco : Precita Eyes Mural Art Center, 1993.

LaDuke, Betty. Women Artists: Multi-Cultural Visions. Trenton, NJ: Red Sea Press, 1992. Pgs. 93-102.

The Chicano Codices: Encountering the Art of the Americas. San Francisco: The Mexican Museum, 1992.Pgs. 8.

"CARA: Chicano Art Resistance and Affirmation," Los Angeles: Regents of the University of California, 1991, pgs. 45, 296, 355-356.

Ybarra-Frausto, Tomás. "Recuerdo, Descbrimiento, Voluntad: Mexican/Chicano Customs for the Day of the Dead," In Dia de los Muertos. Chicago: Mexican Fine Arts Museum, 1991.

Chadwick, Whitney. Women, Art and Society (World of Art). London: Thames & Hudson, 1990, pgs. 224, 228.

Lippard, Lucy R. Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America. New York: Pantheon Books, 1990, pg. 54.

Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer. American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1989, pgs. 430-432.

Roth, Moir, ed. Connecting Conversations: Interviews with 28 Bay Area Women Artists. Mills College: Eucalyptus Press, 1988, pgs. 232-236.

“Inaguraran una Muesta Pictorica de Valores Mexicanos con Aire Chicano.” El Sol de Mexico, news paper Sept. 8, 1987. Pg.

Lo del Corazón: Heartbeat of a Culture. San Francisco: The Mexican Museum, 1986.

Goldman, Shifra M., and Tomás Ybarra-Frausto. Arte Chicano: A Comprehensive Biography of Chicano Art, 1965-1981. Berkeley: Chicago Studies Library Publications Unit, University of California, 1985. Pg. 97, 94, 126, 147, 166, 216, 241, 269, 379, 657, 737.

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Garcia, Rupert. “An Historical Look at La Raza Murals and Muralists,” El Tecolote 2, no. 14 (July 1972)

.Tibol, Raquel, Jesus Rodriguez y Rodriguez, “Artistas Mexico Americanos de San Francisco, California.” Loteria Nacional, Mexico city Mexico Pg 83.

PUBLICATIONS:

Selected Readings in Chicano Art. Berkeley: Chicano Studies Program, University of California, 1977.