Smittened by Smitty

I am an artist who creates pretty pictures. Sometimes they move sometimes they don't. Sometimes they are flat and sometimes they are 3D. I recently ventured into new territory and created a play that opened last December. It is a compilation of my years of various visual and installation work combined with my co-director's experience in theatre and movement arts. I am moving into doing more puppetry and performance arts. I am currently studying partner acrobatics, animation, cinematography and video editing. My day job is for a printing house where I specialize in pre-press and digital press operation. I am acquiring knowledge about the actual printing process in order to be a better designer. I specialize in seriography, letterpress, typography, and other photoemulsion printing processes. I also make books, boxes, containers and other promotional materials. Also check out the link to CoG's page since it is my main project right now.

I am available to create pretty pictures for you or your project. I can also bring friends together to create a performance for you event.

2001 to present- Executive Director, CoG: A production cooperative that produces everything from clothing to zines to postcards to activities to installations to performance events.

10/04 to 04/06- Director, 321 Clubhouse: a grassroots arts center for queers (hosted regular events including an open mic night (Insurgency), gallery shows, a community list serve, discussion groups as well as created educational opportunities through access to tools and instruction.)

04/1997 to 07/2000- Art Instructor, Peaceful Valley Community Center


Exhibits:

02/2009- the CoG Factory Opening, Curator (CoG Factory, Portland, OR)

02/2008- Love in Print, Curator: Shawn Demarest (Bite Studio, Portland, OR)

04/01/2006- 108, Group show, Curator: Jay Gordon (108 gallery, Seattle WA)

12/10/2005- KraftHaus, Craft show (Seattle WA)

04/09/2005- Behind the Counter Culture, Curator: Jay Gordon (Mnemonic gallery, 619 Western, Seattle WA)

07/08/2005- Urban Fashion, Fashion Show Benefit (ArtWorks, Seattle, WA)

11/03/2005- Deadly Fashion, Collaboration with the Foxglove Studio, curator (619 Western, Seattle WA)

01/06/2005- Disillustration: Group exhibition featuring modern “Pop art”, curator (321 Clubhouse, Seattle WA)

12/02/2004- Our Queer Family Portrait: Group photographical exhibition, curator (321 Clubhouse, Seattle WA)

09/2002- An Artists Response to Wartime Activities: Group show in response to wartime activity (Bread and Roses,

Olympia WA)

05/23/2000- Dissonant Velocity: Group show, Curator: Tom O’Day (Spokane Falls Community College Gallery)


Installations and Activities:

Ongoing- Picture, Interactive installation, Street of Seattle and Portland

Ongoing- Pass it on…, Activity, postcard/ Sticker project

Ongoing- Confession is for the birds…, Activity

09/2007- Chalk Activity, Interactive installation, Jackson Park, Downtown Portland

04/2006- Toys vs. Commuters, Installation, Seattle Tram Station

09/2000- You are what your food eats: an Installation, curator (Spokane Falls Community College)


Spoken Word and Performance:

02/14/2009: Puppet Love, (Puppet Shorts), Produced by Tears of Joy Theatre at the Winningstad, PCPA, Portland OR

01/2009: Not All Clowns Are Bozos (Clown shorts), Produced by Ear to the Ground at Theatre Off Jackson, Seattle WA

12/2008: Denial of Self, A performance event with a month long show (Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, Portland OR)

07/21/2005: Featured Reader Seattle Spit: Monthly open Mic (the Wild Rose, Seattle WA)

05/26/2004: Guest performer for Jack Castle, PhD (the Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle WA)

06/02/2004: Featured Reader Seattle Spit: Monthly open mic (the Wild Rose, Seattle WA)

08/2003: Guest Feature with Anna Bergman (Seattle Poetry Slam, Seattle WA)

04/01/2003: Featured Reader Seattle Spit: Monthly open mic (the Wild Rose, Seattle WA)


Publications:

08/2008: How We Flew, Write Around Portland Anthology (Portland, OR)

08/2005: Bearings volume 1: My Friend Gender an art book about sexuality and gender (Portland, OR)

06/2005: Is True, Is Now: an anthology published by the Buffalo Collective (Portland, OR)

12/2004: Women’s Forum: annual anthology by the Women’s Program at Seattle Central Community College (Seattle, WA)

04/2003- PENetration: an art book exploring poetry and representational images produced for First Featured Reading at Seattle Spit (Seattle WA)


Experimental Films and animations:

2008: I heart the Esplanade, shadow puppet animation overlaid animated DV footage

2007: Best Valentine Ever: Scanned animated Origami layered over DV footage

2006: Toys vs. the commuters: edited documentation of installation

2006: Travel: Stop Motion layered over personal DV stock

2005: Blooming Flower: Homage to Yoko Ono using experimental DV Footage

2005: Take 2: Fusion of an accordion player and personal DV stock of the AlCan


Scholarships/ other education:

2007-8: Do Jump, Work Trade as Office Assistant for classes in Partner Acrobatics.

07/10/2007-:Focus on Book Arts Conference -$250

2005: The Evergreen State College- Book Arts, Illustration, Physics, Women Studies, Photo-polymer printing methods

2000: Spokane Falls Community College: Fine Arts Studies and Environmental Science/ Ecology



Specialties:

Seriography (and Silk Screening), Graphic Design, Letterpress, Illustration, Installation, Performance Art, Trapeze, Acrobatics, Stilting, Web Design, Digital Printer Operation and Pre-Press, Printmaking with a focus on Photo-polymer methods, Dreamweaver, Adobe CS (1-4), Traditional Fine Arts, Spoken Word