Art Residency:    

 Nassau Community College Firehouse Gallery                                                                                                                      Summer 2013

 

Work Experience:

Addiction Research and Treatment Corporation/ Urban Resource Institute (ARTCURI)

Mural Painter and Art Instructor                                                                                                                                                       2008- 2012

-Commissioned to paint eleven murals for ARTCURI facilities

-Set up workshop and taught at two of their facilities, Brooklyn center for emotionally challenged and Battered women's' shelter in Manhattan

-Co-created  large exhibition of paintings by African American, Latino, and Diaspora artists themed Artists Speaking for the Spirits along with Ogundipe Fayomi

 

Children's Art Carnival

Art Instructor                                                                                                                                                                                        1982-2008 

-Taught art in private program in Harlem set up to use art to enforce academics to students with little or no previous art exposure

-Taught classes from Queens, Brooklyn, Bronx, and Manhattan

-Taught art workshops with students ranging from elementary school to high school

-Adapted art classes to fit the needs of varying students

 -Designed special programs that utilized art to teach academics by working with school curriculums

 

Harlem Parents Association, New Muse Brooklyn, JOIN Center Brooklyn

Art Teacher                                                                                                                                                                                           1972-1982 

-Introduced students to various forms of the arts: advertising design, architecture, package design, industrial design, illustration, book jacket design, along with other forms

 

Jones, James, Jamison Ad Agency

Art Director                                                                                                                                                                                           1965-1972

-Designed ads for "Har U Act" government program

-Illustrated and designed book covers for Harper and Row, McGraw Hill, MacMillan Press, American Books and Sesame Street Magazine         

 

Education

Attended Philadelphia College of Art

 

Exhibits

Hampton University in Virginia, Ghana Museum in Africa, Brooklyn Museum, Columbia University, Studio Museum of Harlem, Brooklyn College, Medger Evers College, York College  Queens, the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Art, Dillard University in New Orleans, Salmagundi, Club New York, Metro Dade Cultural Center in Miami Florida, American International College Springfield, Massachusetts, Nassau Community College, Kenkelebra Gallery N.Y., Rockland Community College Sufferin, N.Y., Skylight Gallery Brooklyn, Great Neck Library Long Island N.Y., Jazzonia Gallery Detroit, Michigan, Red Piano Gallery N.C., Germantown Gallery Philadelphia, Pa., African Museum of Life and Culture N.Y., Langston Hughes Community Center Queens, N.Y., Lehman College Bronx, N.Y., Schenectady Museum, Schenectady, N.Y., Dos Manos Gallery, N.Y., Harlem Cultural Council, N.Y., ACBA Gallery, N.Y., South Huntington Public Library Long Island, N.Y., N.Y. Consortium, Valsamis Gallery, Brooklyn, Village Art Show, N.Y. Allen Lane Art Gallery, Philadelphia, Jacob Javits Federal Building, N.Y., 843 Studio Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y., Harlem School of the Arts, Bankers Trust Company, N.Y., CitiBank N.Y., Hempstead Art Fair, Hempstead N.Y., Fulton Art Fair, Brooklyn, Gallery North, Setauket N.Y., African American Museum Hempstead N.Y., ACBA Gallery Mount Vernon N.Y., Windsor Art Center, Windsor Connecticut    

 

Mural Commissions

M.T.A. Metropolitan Transit Authority, New York School Authority, Percent for Art, Queens Catholic Center, Brooklyn Children's Center, Dept. Recreation, Philadelphia, Pa., Abyssinian Development Corporation and Kings County Hospital