updated 1/18
CURRENT PRIMARY DUTIES • EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
Teach three upper-level undergraduate courses in Interactive and Motion Graphics, and Introduction to Graphic Design; serve on departmental and University committees, including graduate MA committees; advise undergraduate students; facilitate the labs and teaching spaces, spec and order computers, accessories, supplies as needed; mentor new and adjunct faculty in graphic design area; develop curriculum; assist in departmental recruiting efforts, attending events and visiting high schools; engage in creative and scholarly activities relevant to graphic design/teaching profession, including client-based work and personal creative and collaborative projects.
CURRENT COURSES • EIU Graphic Design Program
ART3912 Interactive and Motion Graphics I • ART3922 Interactive and Motion Graphics II
ART4912 Interactive and Motion Graphics III • ART4922 Interactive and Motion Graphics IV
ART2910 Introduction to Graphic Design
Undergraduate and Graduate Independent Study courses vary by semester
Past EIU courses: 2D Design, Special Topics, Typography III, Visualization III
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS / EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor, Department of Art and Design • Eastern Illinois University, 2015–present
Charleston, Illinois
Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Design • Eastern Illinois University, August 2009–2015
Charleston, Illinois
Adjunct Instructor, Graphic Design Graduate Program • Indiana University-Bloomington, Spring semester, 2009
Bloomington, Indiana
Graphic Designer • Indiana University Foundation, July 2008–July 2009
Bloomington, Indiana
Assistant Professor, Graphic Design • Southern Utah University, Fall 2004–Spring 2008
Cedar City, Utah
Associate Instructor, Graphic Design • Indiana University, Spring 2003–Spring 2004
Bloomington, Indiana
Graphic Designer • Indiana University Foundation, 1999–Spring 2004
Bloomington, Indiana
Graphic Designer/Writer • Inari Information Services, Inc., 1990–1999
Bloomington, Indiana
EXHIBITIONS / PRESENTATIONS / AWARDS
2017
“Love’s River of Errors,” official selection and Award of Distinction, Canada Shorts Film Festival 2017; Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada; December 9, 2017.
“Love’s River of Errors” selected for screening at Cinema Poetica Film Festival, Ashland, Oregon, in junction with Ashland Literary Arts Festival, October 28, 2017; voted Audience Favorite.
“Love’s River of Errors” accepted for final screening at the Juteback Poetry Film Festival 2017 at the Wolverine Farm Publishing’s Letterpress & Publick House, Fort Collins, Colorado; June 23 (summer screening) and October 7, 2017 (fall screening).
“Cathedral” and “Love’s River of Errors” screened at the EIU Faculty Biennial Show 2017; Fall 2017.
“Love’s River of Errors” published on poetryseen.com; June 19, 2017.
“Love’s River of Errors” featured on movingpoems.com, curated by Dave Bonta; May 25, 2017.
“Love’s River of Errors” published in the online journal The Atticus Review (atticusreview.org); May 5, 2017.
EIU Redden Grant for EIU Graphic Design Alumni Lecture Series; coordinator; Fall 2017.
EIU Publishing Scholars, participant.
2016
“Normalization of Deviance” curated into Utopia/Dystopia, an international exhibition of films at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, Bath, Avon, UK; June 2, 2016.
“Love’s River of Errors” selected for final screening in the Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival at Nick’s Bar in Worcester, Massachusetts; October 22, 2016.
Champaign-Urbana Design Organization (CUDO) Student Portfolio Review, reviewer.
EIU Publishing Scholars, participant.
2015
“Normalization of Deviance” screened at the EIU Biennial Faculty Show 2015.
“Normalization of Deviance” presented by collaborator Charlotte Pence at Southern Festival of Books, Nashville, TN; October 9, 2015; and at Decatur Book Festival, Decatur, Georgia; September 5, 2015.
“Normalization of Deviance” (poem by Charlotte Pence, Assistant Professor of English, EIU) featured on movingpoems.com, curated by Dave Bonta; August 25, 2015.
EIU Publishing Scholars, participant.
Mentor for graphic design student designing promotional materials for department.
2014
“Migrations” curated into CYCLOP, 4th International Videopoetry Festival in Kiev, Ukraine, November 21-23, 2014.
“Graphic Design and Poetry in Motion,” guest lecture at Southern Utah University’s Department of Art & Design’s Art Insights series, Cedar City, Utah; November 20, 2014.
“On a Prophet” curated into Visible Verse Poetry Film Festival 2014, the Cinematheque in Vancouver, Canada; Heather Haley, curator; October 18, 2014.
“Migrations” and “On a Prophet” selected for screening at the 2nd Ó Bhéal International Poetry-Film Competition 2014 during the IndieCork Film Festival, Cork, Ireland; October 12-19, 2014.
“Migrations” selected for screening at the Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival at Nick’s Bar in Worcester, Massachusetts; finalist for Best Sound/Music; October 12, 2014.
“On a Prophet” awarded First Prize for Best Editing in Liberated Words III’s “Memory” show, international poetry-film festival at the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol, UK, September 13, 2014.
“On a Prophet,” first screened at invitational group show With Sirens Blaring at the Prøve Gallery in Duluth, Minnesota, August 8, 2014. Collaboration with poet Kathleen Roberts.
“Teaching Motion and Interactive Design Principles through Poetry in Motion: Case Studies,” peer-reviewed presentation/paper in the proceedings of the University & College Designers Association (UCDA)’s Design Education Summit, Madison, WI; May 19, 2014.
“More Room to Fail, or, ‘All work can be resubmitted at the end of the semester’ ” peer-reviewed presentation/paper in the proceedings of the University & College Designers Association (UCDA)’s Design Education Summit, Madison, WI; May 19, 2014.
“Migrations” curated into Poems, Places & Soundscapes, an “international exhibition of digitally produced sound-&-poetry focusing on place and soundscape,” at the Cube Gallery in Leicester, England; Mark Goodwin and Brian Lewis (of Longbarrow Press), curators; April 7-25, 2014.
“Migrations” (February 2014) and “On a Prophet” (July 2014) featured on movingpoems.com, curated by Dave Bonta.
Art Faculty Gallery Talk at Tarble Arts Center, participant.
EIU Publishing Scholars, participant.
2013
“The Mantis Shrimp” selected for screening at the CYCLOP Videopoetry Festival in Kiev, Ukraine; November 16-17, 2013.
“21 Instructions before the Retreat Begins” juried into Liberated Words II, an international poetry film festival at the Arnolfini Art Gallery, Bath Spa University, Bristol, U.K.; October 2013.
EIU College of Arts and Humanities Travel Grant; Fall 2013.
“The Mantis Shrimp” published in the online journal The Atticus Review (atticusreview.org); June 2013.
“Simplifying the Complexities of Interactive Design,” peer-reviewed presentation at the University & College Designers Association (UCDA)’s Design Education Summit, Chattanooga, TN; May 20, 2013.
“The Mantis Shrimp” curated into The Body Electric Poetry Film Festival in Fort Collins, Colorado; May 4, 2013.
“Toward A Hybrid Process: Integrating Analog and Digital Techniques into 2D Foundations,” peer-reviewed presentation at postHaus, 34th Biennial conference for Foundations in Art: Theory and Education (FATE), at The Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia; April 4-6, 2013.
“The Mantis Shrimp” curated into the group show Graphic Content at the Jacoby Art Center in Alton, Illinois; March 1–April 6, 2013.
“JAC Exhibit Gets Graphic: Artists display varied implications of the genre,” by Vicki Bennington in The Telegraph, Alton, IL; March 13, 2013. Interview about the making of “The Mantis Shrimp.”
EIU Publishing Scholars, participant.
2012
“True Mixed Bag: Great Successes and Stunning Failures with Digital Foundation Projects,” a peer-reviewed presentation at Mid-America College Art Association Conference, Detroit; October 3-6, 2012.
“The Mantis Shrimp” curated into the international show Liberated Words at MIX XII: Conference On Merging Intermedia, Pound Arts Centre, Bath Spa University, Corsham, UK, July 17, 2012.
“One Part Wood Type, One Part CSS: A Proposal to Blend Traditional Typographic Methods with New Code,” peer-reviewed session presentation at Catch 22: University and College Designers Association’s Annual Design Education Summit; Blacksburg, Virginia, May 2012.
“Make Things Move: Integrating Simple Motion Design into 2D Foundations Projects” peer-reviewed presentation at the 12th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities; Honolulu, Hawaii, January 2012.
Art Faculty Gallery Talk at Tarble Arts Center, participant; 2012.
Champaign-Urbana Design Organization (CUDO) Student Portfolio Review, reviewer; 2012.
2011
“Make Things Move: Integrating Simple Motion Design into 2D Foundations Projects,” peer-reviewed presentation at OnStream: FATE/MACAA (Foundations in Art: Theory and Practice/Mid-America College Art Association) Biennel conference 2011; St. Louis, March 2011.
2010
“Create Animation Projects that Explore Design Principles in Motion,” Media and Methods in Art Education 26th Annual Conference, Eastern Illinois University, March 2010.
Mentor for graphic design student, Showcase EIU.
Mentor for graphic design students collaborating with Department of Theatre Arts on promotional materials.
2009
Design Excellence Award, UCDA (University and College Designers Association), national competition.
Design Excellence Award, Graphic Design USA, national competition.
2008
“Continental Divide,” motion design adaptation of Professor Danielle Dubrasky’s poetry; Braithwaite Gallery, Southern Utah University; February–March 2008.
2007
“Write, Dance, Design: Cross Disciplinary Case Studies in Design,” peer-reviewed presentation at AIGA Intent/Content conference, Nashville, Tennessee; June 2007.
“Counterform 2007,” juried exhibition of book works at the University of Utah; February–March 2007.
“Fiction, Poetry, Dance, and Graphic Design: Case Studies in Collaborative Interactive and Print Design Projects,” peer-reviewed presentation, 2007 Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities; Honolulu, Hawaii; January 2007.
“Please Do Not Discard,” solo exhibition of graphic design, art, writing; Vincennes University, Indiana; January–February 2007.
“Personal Writing and Visual Exploration,” visiting artist/designer lecture, Vincennes University, Indiana; February 2007.
2006
“Restless Boundaries,” exhibition of graphic design, art, writing, at Bellevue University, Nebraska; October–November 2006.
“Open Space,” visiting artist/designer lecture, Bellevue University; October 2006.
“Raising Awareness through Graphic Design and New Media,” lecture and workshop at SUNY-Osego; visiting designer/artist; “Lake Ontario” presented; February 2006.
Faculty Development Grant, Southern Utah University; 2006.
“Get Real” Exhibition, Springville Museum of Art, Utah; January–February, 2006
“Unexpurgated,” with Lisa Nold and Jay Berlinsky, interactive poetry design; Born Magazine (bornmagazine.org); 2006.
2005
“Toward Closing the Rift,” co-authored with Professor Todd Petersen, University and College Designers Association’s Design Educators Summit; Nashville; August 2005.
“Notes on the Night Highway (II),” interactive poetry design, poem by Wayne Miller; Born Magazine (bornmagazine.org); 2005.
Faculty Development Grant, Southern Utah University; 2005.
2004
Art Seminar Show, with Brian Kershisnik, painter; Robert Neubecker, illustrator; Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery, Southern Utah University; 2004.
Art Major Seminar Presentation, Southern Utah University; 2004.
2003
Views of Home, MFA Thesis Show, IU School of Fine Arts Gallery; December 2003.
20 in 10, MFA and BFA Graphic Design Show, IU School of Fine Arts Gallery; Fall 2003.
L’ Estate di Venezia, Exhibition from Venice, Indiana University; Fall 2003.
George Pinnelle Award for Excellence, Indiana University Foundation; 2003.
2 Gold Medals, CASE (Council for the Advancement and Support of Education); 2003.
Design Excellence Award, UCDA (University and College Designers Association); 2003.
Grant-in-Aid Award, Indiana University; Fall 2003.
2001
The Visual Book, IU School of Fine Arts; Spring 2001.
Silver Medal, CASE; 2001.
