Exhibitions
GALLERIES AND EXHIBITIONS/TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Spring 2002 | University of Arizona Alumni group show |
January 2003 | Began working with tin |
April 2003 | University of Arizona Alumni group show |
July 2003 | Obsidian Gallery group Show |
September 2003 | Began showing at Tohono Chul gift Shop |
September 2003 | 2 person show with Ed Davenport at Tucson Arts District Partnership office |
September 2003 | Day of the Dead Show-Tohono Chul Park |
October 2003 | ‘Pollos del Pueblo” Show-Tucson Arts Coalition |
November 2003 | One man show- Catalina Park Inn, Tucson, AZ |
November 2003 | Began showing at Bohemia Gallery Tucson, AZ |
January 2004 | Began showing in Bisbee at ‘Made in Bisbee’ gallery |
February 2004 | Began showing at the Newman Gallery in Prescott |
February 2004 | Valentine’s Day Show—Heart Five, Tucson, AZ |
March 2004 | ‘Orange Alert’ Show-Tucson Arts Coalition |
March 2004 | TPAC Studio tour |
March 2004 | ‘The Artist and the Garden’ Show—Tohono Chul Park |
April 2004 | ‘Illuminated’ Show—Heart Five |
April 2004 | Group Invitational (Underpants) Etherton Temple Gallery |
April 2004 | University of Arizona Alumni group show |
June 2004 | ‘Monsoon’ show—Tohono Chul Park |
June 2004 | Began showing at Global Arts Gallery-Patagonia |
July 2004 | “Here I Am’ Invitational show—Obsidian Gallery |
September 2004 | Began showing at the TMA Museum Store |
March 2005 | TMA (Tucson Museum of Art)Art Fair |
April 2005 | ‘Wherefore Art Thou’ Group Invitational Etherton Temple Gallery |
May 2005 | ‘Re-Visions Show’ Tohono Chul Park |
June 2005 | H2O Juried Show Dinnerware Artspace |
June 2005 | ‘Le Salon des Refuses’ Dinnerware Artspace |
September 2005 | Dia de los Muertos Show Tohono Chul Park |
October 2005 | Art Auction Dinnerware Artspace |
November 2005 | TMA Art Fair |
March 2006 | ‘Romance of the West Show’ Tohono Chul Park |
March 2006 | TMA Art Fair |
March 2006 | Featured Artist Fourth Ave. St. Fair |
March 2006 | One man show Etherton Temple Gallery |
April 2006 | ‘Bonfire of the Vanitas’ Group Invitational’ Etherton Temple Gallery |
April 2006 | Changed Gallery in Bisbee to Twist |
June 2006 | ‘Persona’ Invitational show—Obsidian Gallery |
July 2006 | Began showing at Nepenthe- Big Sur, California |
August 2006 | ‘Alter Ego’ Invitational show—Obsidian Gallery |
November 2006 | TMA Art Fair |
March 2007 | Began showing at Zeek Gallery , Salem, Oregon |
March 2007 | TMA Art Fair |
June 2007 | ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Invitational show—Obsidian Gallery |
September 2007 | Began showing at ‘Funky Chicken Art Project’ Atlanta, Georgia |
November 2007 | ‘Visions of the Land’ show Tohono Chul Park |
November 2007 | TMA Art Fair |
March 2008 | Began showing at Human Arts Gallery Ojai, California |
March 2008 | TMA Fair |
March 2008 | Opening of my ‘New Work’ show at Twist Gallery, Bisbee |
May 2008 | WAMO Spring Open Studio Tour |
May 2008 | Davis Dominguez Small Works Invitational |
May 2008 | ‘Recycled/Reused Show’ at Tohono Chul Park |
May 2008 | Dinnerware ‘Small Frames, Big Ideas’ Invitational |
September 2008 | Dinnerware ‘Dream Makers: New Works from the Citizens Art Studios’ |
October 2008 | Bohemia Artist Emporium ‘Tin-tillations’ One man show |
November 2008 | TPAC Open Studios Tour |
November 2008 | TMA Fair |
January 2009 | ‘Laughing Matters’ show at Tohono Chul Park |
March 2009 | TPAC Open Studios Tour |
March 2009 | TMA Fair |
April 2009 | ‘Urban Picnic’ Lunchbox creator |
May 2009 | ‘Canyons’ show at Tohono Chul Park |
October 2009 | ‘Luminas’ show at the Dinnerware Gallery |
November 2009 | TPAC Open Studios Tour |
November 2009 | TMA Fair |
March 2010 | TPAC Open Studios Tour |
March 2010 | TMA Fair |
June 2010 | Began showing in ‘Plum Crazy’ gallery, North Carolina |
November 2010 | One man show Etherton Temple Gallery |
March 2011 | TMA Fair |
March 2011 | Peep-a-tational Invitational Bohemia Gallery |
March 2011 | Tucson Open studios tour |
April 2011 | Recycled show –Shemer Art Center –Phoenix |
June 2011 | Bug Invitational—SamPoe Gallery—Bisbee, AZ |
ovember 2011 | TMA Fair |
January 2012— | Centennial Show—Tohono Chul Park |
March 2012 | TMA Fair |
April 2012 | ‘Red’ Invitational — Etherton Temple Gallery |
April 2012 | Tucson Open Studios tour |
November 2012 | TMA Fair |
March 2013 | One Man Show—‘Armed and Dangerous”-Wee Gallery, Tucson |
November 2013 | TMA Fair |
Oct.-Dec. 2013 | Small Works Tohono Chul Park |
April 2014 | TMA Fair |
November 2014 | TMA Fair |
Feb.2015 | Wee Gallery- one man show—Paint on Tin |
Feb.-Apr. 2015 | ‘Sonoran Desert: Large and Small’ Tohono Chul Park |
April 2015 | Open Studios Tour |
April 2015 | TMA Fair |
June-August 2015 | Etherton Gallery—‘The Artists of Citizens Warehouse’ |
Nov. 2015 | Open Studios Tour |
Nov. 2015 | TMA Fair |
Oct.-Dec. 2015 | Small Works Tohono Chul Park |
Nov.-Feb. 2016 | ‘Taking Flight-Birds in Art’ Tohono Chul Park |
March 2016 | ‘The Tin Commandments’ One man show – Wee Gallery |
April 2016 | TMA Fair |
Oct. 2016 | Contreras Gallery—Aargaard-Carlson-Fitzsimmons-‘Artists and Political Cartoonists’ |
Nov. 2016 | Tohono Chul Gallery—‘Sonoran Symbiosis’ |
Nov. 2017 | Jan. 2018 Tohono Chul Welcome Gallery—One man show |
May-June 2018 | ‘Tin is the New Black’—Stifel Fine Arts Center, Wheeling, WV |
June 2018 | ‘We Have Something to Say’ Steinfeld Community Arts Center, Tucson, AZ |
Aug. 2018 | Lotteria Show -Arte de la Vida—Tucson, AZ |
March 2019 | Tucson Museum of Art Store Exhibit, Tucson, AZ |
Sept. 2019 | ACLU Anniversary Statewide Tour Exhibition Gammage Auditorium, Tempe, AZ |
Sept. 2019 | Contreras Gallery—Aargaard-Carlson-Fitzsimmons-‘Artists and Political Cartoonists’ |
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TEACHING/PRESENTATION EXPERIENCE: | |
1979-1980 | Calligraphy instructor -Pima College |
1979-1980 | Cartooning instructor -Pima College |
1984 | Perspective instructor—Scottsdale Technical Institute |
1992 | ‘Magazine Graphic Design’ Copper Quill Awards presentation, Tempe, AZ |
1995-1996 | Substitute teacher Amphi School District Tucson, AZ |
1996-1997 | Substitute teacher Yavapai School District, Sedona, AZ |
1997 | Artist in the Schools Program, Sedona High School |
1997 | Plein Air Painting instructor Sedona Art Center |
2004-2006 | Tin collage presentations- Collage Society of Southern Arizona |
2015-2016 | Cartooning instructor – The Drawing Studio, Tucson, AZ |
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EDUCATION/EMPLOYMENT HISTORY | |
1960 | Graduated from Benjamin Bubb Elementary, Mtn. View, CA |
1967 | Graduated from Cupertino High School, Cupertino, CA |
1965-67 | Cartoonist, Prospector newspaper, Cupertino High School |
1966-67 | Cartoonist, Cupertino Courier, Cupertino, CA |
1967-68 | Attended the California College of Arts and Crafts |
1969-70 | Attended De Anza College |
1969-70 | Cartoonist, La Voz Newspaper, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA |
1968-70 | Silk screen art vendor, Old Town, Los Gatos, CA |
1969 | Cartoonist, San Jose Red Eye, San Jose, CA |
1971 | Began attending the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ |
1971-72 | Cartoonist, Arizona Daily Wildcat, UA Tucson |
1972 | Cartoonist, Straight Creek Journal, Denver, CO |
1973-75 | Interior Design Illustrator, Ramada Inns, Phoenix, AZ |
1974-75 | Cartoonist, New Times, Phoenix, AZ |
1975-76 | Waiter, Wineskin Restaurant, Snowmass, CO |
1976 | Assistant Manager, Paprikas Fono restaurant, San Francisco, CA |
1977 | Reentered the University of Arizona |
1977-79 | Cartoonist, Arizona Daily Wildcat, UA Tucson |
1977-78 | Art Director, National Education Secretary, Tucson, AZ |
1978-79 | Art Director, Arizona Feeds, Tucson, AZ |
1979 | Graduated from the University of Arizona/ BA Philosophy |
1979-80 | Art Director, Tucson Weekly News, Tucson, AZ |
1981-83 | Graphics Editor, El Paso Herald-Post, El Paso, TX |
1982 | El Paso Art Fair, El Paso, TX |
1983-86 | Art Director, New Times, Phoenix, AZ |
1986-87 | Art Director, Arizona Trend Magazine, Phoenix, AZ |
1987 | Present-Cartoonist, Tucson Weekly, Tucson, AZ |
1988-Present | Started Random Arts, a freelance graphic design and illustration studio. |