RESUME
VIDA Design - January 2005 - present
VIDA Design develops, manages and designs all phases of modern / classic furniture design, historic residential renovations, remodels, professional staging, and photographic public and private art installations. As owner and designer responsibilities include all aspects of design including concept, creative collaboration, project management, production oversight, marketing, and installation. Recent press includes a full feature in Oct / Nov 2007 Western Interiors Magazine,5280 Magazine (Denver) The Santa Fean, Magazine, Phoenix Home and Garden, Santa Fe Trend, and the Santa Fe Reporter.
The University of New Mexico - Albuquerque, New Mexico - January 1997 - present
Project Director and Installation Designer – Neuro-Esthetic Art Research (NEAR)
Working with Iraq war veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) to produce an original installation incorporating scientific imaging and personal photographic histories. In collaboration with the Santa Fe Art Institute. Residencies and exhibition planned for the 2009 season “Memory and Healing”
Co-Principal Investigator – The MIND Institute “The Neuroscience of Creativity”
Funded by the Templeton Foundation. July 2007 – July 2010
Directs art component of study including portfolio evaluation, subject and study group selection, and curates artists-in-residence participants. Develops additional grant proposals and presents at classes and conferences.
Associate Director – Arts Technology Center (ATC) August 1999 – August 2005
Responsible for all aspects of programming for ATC, a research center focused on the creative interchange between art and technology. Dialogues with professors, artists, designers, scientists, arts organization, institutions and the private sector in the field of art, design, and technology. Projects developed, designed and funded include: “Cultural Practice, Virtual Style: Artists Residencies in High Performance Computing” funded by the NEA and the Rockefeller Foundation; “LodeStar: Artists Projects in Digital Domed Theaters/Planetaria” funded by the Ford Foundation; and “The Digital Pueblo Project” funded by the National Science Foundation.
Adjunct Assistant Professor - Art 1997 – present
College of Fine Arts – Department of Art and Art History, Electronic Arts; IFDM (Institute of Film and Digital Media) and University Honors Program.
Client and Collector lists, and references, available upon request.
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