Work Experience
Adjunct Professor of Mass Media, Film, English, and Art History
Designed accredited courses for both on-campus and online classes. Journalism students learn mass media history, business, and communication techniques. Film students learn cinema techniques, history, and analysis. Art History students learn how history, technology, and culture interact. Trained young journalists: began a new paper with a staff of eight and within two years enrolled 28 to produce a 12-page paper with $4000 yearly in advertising.
Online classes include the most popular course in Washington -- more than 1000 students since 1993 -- and the only photojournalism history course in the nation.
Seattle Community College District, 1993 - present (Film, Mass Media, Business Communications) Humboldt State University, 2004 (Photojournalism History, Introduction to Mass Media)
Rogue Community College, 2002 - 2004 (Journalism, English)
Southern Oregon University, 2001 - 2002 (Photojournalism, Art History)
Teacher of Business Courses
Taught credit and non-credit classes "Business Communications," "Start Your Own Mail Order Business," "Guerrilla Marketing," and "Create Your Brochure." Bellevue, Highline, and Seattle Community Colleges, and Southern Oregon University Extension. 1991 - present.
Instructor of Art, Cartooning, and Television Production Courses
Workshops inspire youths and adults to unleash their creative potential, linking academics with creative activities and encouraging the study of natural history, consumer awareness, and critical thinking. Taught for art museums, park departments, and schools in Washington, Montana, and Oregon, including the Schneider Art Museum and the Rogue Valley Youth Correctional Facility. 1989 - present.
Public Relations and Marketing Consultant
Create marketing campaigns and materials for colleges, small businesses, and healers. Publicity campaigns and staff training resulted in extensive news coverage. Sold everything from cleaning supplies to cookbooks through the mail. Education clients include North Seattle Community College and Discover U, Seattle, Washington; Healing professionals include acupuncture, energy healing, and chiropractic physicians. Publishers sold cookbooks, cleaning texts, fantasy magazines, and public health videos. 1974 - present.
Clown and actor
Perform original theater, walkabouts, and parties, for children and adults, in Oregon and Montana. Received $4000 Celebration Foundation grant to present youth training programs. 2002 - present.
Publications and Presentations
Web Site: Produced one of the foremost academic resource sites for students of mass media, 2000 - 2004.
Museum Exhibit: Designed the Optical Illusions Hall at ScienceWorks, a new museum, Ashland, Oregon, 2003. Art Exhibit: Contributed to and assisted with the "Fish Art" show at Bowling Green State University, the most popular show in the history of the college, 1989.
Presentations: "Words and Pictures from Pre-history to the Age of Electricity" lecture and TV show for Southern Oregon University and RVTV, Ashland, Oregon, 2002. Organized the "Emergency Preparedness Conference," Vashon Island, Washington, 1999. "The NWTeleweb Project: Incorporating Television and Websites for Online Course Delivery" presented at the 1998 League for Innovation Conference. Presented "Popular Culture Studies" at the 1993 Media Literacy Conference, Seattle Central Community College.
Reporting: Trained the staff for a new student newspaper at Rogue Community College, Medford, Oregon, 2002-2003. Wrote Artist Biographies and created a website for Southern Oregon University Art Show, 2001. Interviewed Al Feldstein, Mad magazine editor, in The Comics Journal, 2000.
Writing : Magazine history encyclopedia entries for Taschen Books, 2003. Book review in Communities magazine; social commentary in The Montana Pioneer; arts criticism and book reviews in Reflex magazine (a Northwest review of the arts for which I received three King County Arts Commission Grants), 1990s.
Magazines: Created many comic books for cartooning classes, most recently for the Oregon Youth Authority, in 2002. Numerous newsletters for arts organizations, including the 2000 circulation, 24 page newsletter for the Oneness Project, in 2001; and the Humboldt Folklife Society Newsletter, 1980s. Edited and published the Humboldt Survival Guide, a student orientation handbook for Humboldt State University ( Arcata, California), that generated a $7000 return on a $1200 budget, 1985. Edited and published Graphic Illusions, a 2400 circulation arts magazine that now attracts $30 bids on Ebay, 1971.
Education
Certificate in Television Production
Rogue Valley Community Television, Ashland, Oregon, 2001
Washington Online Curriculum Development
a nine-week training program in course delivery and software,
Washington Online Education Consortium, 1999
Masters in Communication from the School of Communications
University of Washington School of Communications,
Seattle, Washington, 1992
Masters in Popular Culture from the Department of Popular Culture
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, 1989
Bachelor of Arts in Journalism with a Public Relations emphasis
Department of Journalism at Humboldt State University,
Arcata, California, 1985
Special Skills
Art: Photographer, cartoonist, and calligrapher.
Theater: Dancer, clown, stilt walker, juggler, and performer.
Community Television: Writer/actor/director/producer.
Computers: Mac and PC; software experience with word and image manipulation in print and on the Web, using Word, FrontPage, HTML, Illustrator, InDesign, PhotoShop, PowerPoint, and Publisher.