Film Festival Screenings
2024 Arizona International Film Festival, The Last One, Tucson, AZ
2023 SPE Media Festival, Invisible Wyoming, Denver, CO
2022 World Wide Women's Film Festival, Invisible Wyoming, Scottsdale, AZ, "Best Short Documentary" award
Kabayitos Microcinema Experimental Short Film Program, Open, New York, NY
Cinema Systers Film Festival, Invisible Wyoming, Paducah, KY
2021 Breckenridge Film Festival, Invisible Wyoming, Breckenridge, CO
LGBTQ History Month Screenings, Invisible Wyoming, United Kingdom
New York Flash Film Festival, Invisible Wyoming, Finalist, NYC
2020 Cannes Short Film Festival, Invisible Wyoming, Cannes, France
LGBTQ Unbordered International Film Festival, Invisible Wyoming, "Excellence Award" online
International Festival of New Latin American Cinema, In Your Dreams, Havana, Cuba (cancelled)
Greenpoint Film Festival Nicodemus, Brooklyn, NY
Experiments in Cinema, In Your Dreams, Albuquerque, NM
SPE Media Festival, Nicodemus, Houston, TX
2019 Boston Sci Fi Film Festival, Memorial to the Future, Somerville, MA
Doc Sunback Film Festival, Nicodemus, Mulvane, KS (Juror's Award)
2018 SCI FI London Film Festival, Memorial to the Future, London, UK
Kansas International Film Festival, Nicodemus, Overland Park, KS
Kansas City Film Festival Nicodemus, Kansas, MO
Fanta Sci Short Film Festival Memorial to the Future, Orlando, FL
Love Your Shorts Film Festival Memorial to the Future, Sanford, FL
Experiments in Cinema, The Decision, Albuquerque, NM
2017 Women+Film, Clara: Angel of the Rockies, Denver, CO (Winner: Audience Award for Short Films)
C.A.R. (Contemporary Art Ruhr), Stopped In Time, Essen, Germany
Midwest Sci-Fi Short Film Festival, Memorial to the Future, Bloomington, MN
UK Screen One International Film Festival, Wishes, Leicester & Nottingham, UK
Experiments in Cinema, Stopped in Time, Albuquerque, NM
2016 Carnegie Museum of Art, Two-Minute Film Festival, Wishes, Pittsburgh, PA
River’s Edge International Film Festival, Clara: Angel of the Rockies, Paducah, KY
North Portland Unknown, Two-Minute Film Festival, Wishes, Portland, OR
Experiments In Cinema, Memorial Meditation, Albuquerque, NM
Southern Colorado Film Festival, Notebook, Alamosa, CO
2015 International Festival of New Latin American Cinema, Notebook and Open, Havana, Cuba
Experiments In Cinema, Notebook, Albuquerque, NM
2014 Alhazens Carnival, Snow Fences. Sheridan College, Sheridan, WY
Film One Fest, Notebook, Atlantic City, NJ
2013 Black Maria Film Festival, Open, New Jersey, traveling exhibition
New Filmmakers New York, Found: Nothing Missing, Anthology Archives, New York, NY
Athens International Film + Video Festival, Open, Athens, OH
Free Form Film Series, Open and Found: Nothing Missing, Denver University
Reachfest, To Do and Inorganic Transmissions, Northampton, MA
Arivaca Independent Filmmakers Exhibition, Open and Found: Nothing Missing, Arivaca, AZ
Women+Film Voices Mobile Film Festival, The Other End of the Phone, Denver, CO
2012 Black Maria Film Festival, To Do, New Jersey, traveling exhibition
Videoholica, Open, Varna, Bulgaria
Starz Denver Film Festival, Open, Denver, CO
Film One Fest, To Do, Atlantic City, NJ
Experiments in Cinema, Open, Albuquerque, NM
Experiments in Cinema Ecuador, (condensed version), Open, Quito, Ecuador
2011 Society for Photographic Education, SPE National Conference Film Festival, Atlanta, GA
Black Maria Film Festival, Small Secrets, NJ traveling exhibition
YBOR Festival of the Moving Image, Fixtures, Tampa, FL
Experiments in Cinema, Small Secrets, Albuquerque, NM
Film One Fest, Small Secrets, Atlantic City, NJ
2010 Experiments in Cinema, Found: Nothing Missing, Albuquerque, NM
Athens International Film + Video Festival, Found: Nothing Missing, Athens, OH
Black Maria Film Festival, Found: Nothing Missing, New Jersey, traveling exhibition
Artists’ Television Access Film Festival, Found:Nothing Missing, San Francisco, CA
Carnegie Museum of Art, Two-Minute Film Festival, Fixtures, Pittsburgh, PA
Taos Shortz Film Fest, Found: Nothing Missing, Taos, NM
2009 New Mexico Film Expo, Found: Nothing Missing, Santa Fe, NM
Taos Shortz Film Fest, Loose Connections and in/organic transmissions, Taos, NM
Experiments in Cinema, in/organic transmissions, Albuquerque, NM
One Minute Film Festival, in/organic transmissions, Atlantic City, NJ
2008 Black Maria Film Festival, Signs and Not Only Just Coffee, New Jersey, traveling exhibition
Santa Fe Film Festival, in/organic transmissions, Santa Fe, NM
YBOR Festival of the Moving Image, Not Only Just Coffee, Tampa, FL
Experiments in Cinema, Not Only Just Coffee, Albuquerque, NM
Athens International Film + Video Festival, Not Only Just Coffee, Athens, OH
Gate City Women’s Film Festival, Not Only Just Coffee, Greensboro, NC
Phoenix Film Festival, Signs, Phoenix, AZ
White Sands Film Festival, Not Only Just Coffee, Alamogordo, NM
2007 Santa Fe Film Festival, Not Only Just Coffee, Santa Fe, NM
Taos Shortz Film Fest, Not Only Just Coffee and Signs, Taos, NM
All Souls Film Festival, Tel-Line, Tucson, AZ
Gulf Coast Film & Video Festival, Signs and Fixtures, Houston, TX
One Minute Film and Video Fest, Tel-Line, Narrowsburgh, NY
Millennium Film Workshop, Signs, New York, NY
New Mexico Filmmakers Showcase, Fixtures, Albuquerque, NM
Santa Fe Traveling Show, Signs, Santa Fe, NM
Experiments in Cinema, Signs, Albuquerque, NM
Gallery exhibitions
2020 Abend Gallery Artists Off Grid, Denver, CO
Arvada Arts Center, Pink Progression, Lakewood, CO
2019 Rotunda Gallery, Navigating Diversity: Identity + Religion in Public Space, Lakewood, CO
Philip J. Steele Gallery, Biennial RMCAD Faculty + Staff Exhibition, Lakewood, CO
2018 Nicodemus Vistor Center, Nicodemus Elders, Nicodemus, KS
2017 Philip J. Steele Gallery, Passing Time, Lakewood, CO
2016 New Media New Mexico Exhibition & Visionfest, Center for the Arts, Hobbs, NM
Rude Gallery, Stopped In Time, Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design, Lakewood, CO
2015 Ice Cube Gallery, Icebreaker 6, Denver, CO
Philip J. Steele Gallery, Living Gallery, Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design, Lakewood, CO
Denver School of Photography, Picture Yourself Out, Denver, CO
2014 Counterpath, Cruzando Caminos, Denver, CO (solo show)
John Jellico Gallery, never half, Denver, CO
2013 MASS MoCA: One Minute Film Festival, Telephone, North Adams, MA
Ice Cube Gallery, Icebreaker 4, Denver, CO
MoMA PopRally: Abstract Currents, Frantic Calm, New York, NY
El Museo Cultural, To Do, currents 2013, Santa Fe, NM
Massachusetts Green High-Performance CC, Reachfest,Turning On Ideas, Holyoke, MA
2012 Index Art Center, Filmideo, Newark NJ
2011 ArtSpace Hartford, Nature Nourishes, Hartford, CT
PhotoPlace Gallery, Online Gallery Annex, The Nature of Trees, Middlebury, VT
John Jellico Gallery, Through the Eyes of Ten, Denver, CO
2010 El Museo Cultural, Fixtures, currents 2010, Santa Fe, NM
wall space gallery, Everything Leaves, New Directions/Down+Out , Seattle, WA
2010 Sandy Gallery, Everything Leaves, New Directions/Down+Out , Portland, OR
qarrtsiluni, online literary magazine, Health issue, in/organic transmissions, http://qarrtsiluni.com/
2009 L.A. Brewery Annex and LA Artcore, in/organic transmissions, West Southwest, Los Angeles, CA
516 ARTS, in/organic transmissions, West Southwest, Albuquerque, NM
2008 Back to Basics, Gallery RFD, Tracks, Best of Show, Swainsboro. GA
Times/Time/Timing, in/organic transmissions,Vermont College Alumni Exhibition, online
VSA Arts Gallery, in/organic transmissions,Tin Can Banana Show, Albuquerque, NM
2007 Wood Gallery, MFA Thesis Exhibit, gallery video Loose Connections, Montpelier, VT
Q Center Gallery,Ten Years of Gertrude Press, gallery video Loose Connections, Portland, OR
Off Center Arts Gallery, Dead Ahead II, video The Beginning is Near, Albuquerque, NM
2006 Q Center Gallery,Solo Exhibition, still photography, Beyond Borders, Portland, OR
2005 Rainbow Planet Gallery,Solo Exhibition, still photography, Bushmen in Botswana, Tucson, AZ
Education
2007 Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, Vermont
1993 Semester Abroad, FAMU, photography program, Prague, Czech Republic
1992 Bachelor of Journalism, emphasis photo, with honors, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
1989 Associate of Arts, photography, language, liberal arts (three degrees) Casper College, Casper, Wyoming
Teaching Experience
Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Lakewood, Colorado 2014-present
adjunct photography and video instructor
The Denver School of Photography, Denver, Colorado 2014-present
Part-time photography instructor
Art Institute of Colorado, Denver, Colorado 2010-2014
Part-time photography and video instructor.
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 2010
Adjunct photography instructor teaching a digital photography class emphasizing: project work, conceptual art and Lightroom/Photoshop.
Central New Mexico Community College, Albuquerque, New Mexico 2009-2010
Writing tutor at the college tutoring center specializing in help on college essays.
Media Arts Collaborative Charter School, Albuquerque, New Mexico 2008-2009
Digital photography instructor at charter high school with a focus on media arts.
AmeriCorps Volunteer--Albuquerque, New Mexico 2007-2008
Worked with at risk youth in community centers doing art projects after school. Also a photography instructor to incarcerated youth (ages 13-19).
Awards/Residencies/Panels
Artist In Residence, Artists Off Grid, Red Feather Lakes, CO 2018
Artist In Residence, Herbert Hoover National Park Site, West Branch, Iowa 2016
Artist In Residence, Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design, Lakewood, CO 2015
Brush Creek Artist Residency, Artist Residency, Saratoga, Wyoming 2011
Jentel, Artist Residency, Banner, Wyoming, 2009
Faculty Development Grant, Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design, Lakewood, CO 2015
Creative Process Workshop, visiting workshop presenter, Salt Lake City, Utah 2011
Best Experimental Film, Taos Shortz Film Festival 2010
New Visions/New Mexico Contract Awards, Selection Panel 2008-2009
Best of Show, Back to Basics, Gallery RFD, Tracks, Swainsboro, Georgia 2007
2008 New Visions/New Mexico Contract Award-State of New Mexico funding for New Mexico Filmmakers
More than 30 other awards in still newspaper photography from local to national levels including: illustration, portrait, news, photo story, feature, pictorial and sports. A list of specific awards is available upon request.
Photojournalism Experience
Tucson Weekly/Inside Tucson Business, Tucson, Arizona 2005
solo staff photographer for alternative weekly and business weekly publications
Travel Photography 2003-2004
self-funded trip around the world, taking and donating photos to five volunteer organizations along the way
Tucson-Citizen, Tucson, Arizona 2000-2003
staff photographer for daily newspaper, including in-depth reporting along the US/Mexico border
Freelance, Phoenix, Arizona 1999-2000
full-time freelance photographer
clients included: Associated Press, USA Today, CitySearch Website, Mesa/Scottsdale Tribune
Longmont Times-Call, Longmont, Colorado 1997-1999
staff photographer at daily newspaper
Casper Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyoming 1995-1997
staff photographer at daily newspaper
La Nacion, San Jose, Costa Rica 1995
photography intern at Spanish language daily newspaper
The Denver Post, Denver, Colorado 1994
photography intern and freelancer at daily newspaper
Volunteer Work in Photography
Picture Me Here 2014
Volunteered teaching photography to refugees from Bhutan who had just arrived in Denver from a refugee camp in Nepal.
Denver Rescue Mission Photo Outreach 2012
Participated with students and faculty to photograph families staying at the rescue mission to provide them quality portraits for their loved ones. We photographed 24 families in need and presented them with a portrait.
Tsunami Photo Rescue 2011
Volunteered with students and faculty to digitally restore images damaged by the tsunami in Japan.
Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure 2010
Volunteered with students to photograph the event from start to finish and provide images to the foundation free of charge.
Emerging Exposures 2010-2011
Volunteered with college students as a mentor and teacher to elementary school children at a school with limited funds over a course of two years. We taught classes, mentored children one to one, printed images and produced an exhibition.
Photos Published
Books: America 24/7, Andrew Weil audio book (cover), Saguaro Cactus: Desert Giant, The Art of the Animal
Magazines: U.S. News & World Report, Newsweek, Shots, News Photographer, Runner’s World, Latino Future
Newspapers: New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, USA Today, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Honolulu Advertiser, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Denver Post, The Prague Post (Czech),Dallas Morning News, Toronto Star
Countries Traveled
Argentina, Australia, Austria, Botswana, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czech Republic, England Fiji, Germany, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Lesotho, Mauritius, Mexico, Namibia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Poland, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Switzerland, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe
2024 Arizona International Film Festival, The Last One, Tucson, AZ
2023 SPE Media Festival, Invisible Wyoming, Denver, CO
2022 World Wide Women's Film Festival, Invisible Wyoming, Scottsdale, AZ, "Best Short Documentary" award
Kabayitos Microcinema Experimental Short Film Program, Open, New York, NY
Cinema Systers Film Festival, Invisible Wyoming, Paducah, KY
2021 Breckenridge Film Festival, Invisible Wyoming, Breckenridge, CO
LGBTQ History Month Screenings, Invisible Wyoming, United Kingdom
New York Flash Film Festival, Invisible Wyoming, Finalist, NYC
2020 Cannes Short Film Festival, Invisible Wyoming, Cannes, France
LGBTQ Unbordered International Film Festival, Invisible Wyoming, "Excellence Award" online
International Festival of New Latin American Cinema, In Your Dreams, Havana, Cuba (cancelled)
Greenpoint Film Festival Nicodemus, Brooklyn, NY
Experiments in Cinema, In Your Dreams, Albuquerque, NM
SPE Media Festival, Nicodemus, Houston, TX
2019 Boston Sci Fi Film Festival, Memorial to the Future, Somerville, MA
Doc Sunback Film Festival, Nicodemus, Mulvane, KS (Juror's Award)
2018 SCI FI London Film Festival, Memorial to the Future, London, UK
Kansas International Film Festival, Nicodemus, Overland Park, KS
Kansas City Film Festival Nicodemus, Kansas, MO
Fanta Sci Short Film Festival Memorial to the Future, Orlando, FL
Love Your Shorts Film Festival Memorial to the Future, Sanford, FL
Experiments in Cinema, The Decision, Albuquerque, NM
2017 Women+Film, Clara: Angel of the Rockies, Denver, CO (Winner: Audience Award for Short Films)
C.A.R. (Contemporary Art Ruhr), Stopped In Time, Essen, Germany
Midwest Sci-Fi Short Film Festival, Memorial to the Future, Bloomington, MN
UK Screen One International Film Festival, Wishes, Leicester & Nottingham, UK
Experiments in Cinema, Stopped in Time, Albuquerque, NM
2016 Carnegie Museum of Art, Two-Minute Film Festival, Wishes, Pittsburgh, PA
River’s Edge International Film Festival, Clara: Angel of the Rockies, Paducah, KY
North Portland Unknown, Two-Minute Film Festival, Wishes, Portland, OR
Experiments In Cinema, Memorial Meditation, Albuquerque, NM
Southern Colorado Film Festival, Notebook, Alamosa, CO
2015 International Festival of New Latin American Cinema, Notebook and Open, Havana, Cuba
Experiments In Cinema, Notebook, Albuquerque, NM
2014 Alhazens Carnival, Snow Fences. Sheridan College, Sheridan, WY
Film One Fest, Notebook, Atlantic City, NJ
2013 Black Maria Film Festival, Open, New Jersey, traveling exhibition
New Filmmakers New York, Found: Nothing Missing, Anthology Archives, New York, NY
Athens International Film + Video Festival, Open, Athens, OH
Free Form Film Series, Open and Found: Nothing Missing, Denver University
Reachfest, To Do and Inorganic Transmissions, Northampton, MA
Arivaca Independent Filmmakers Exhibition, Open and Found: Nothing Missing, Arivaca, AZ
Women+Film Voices Mobile Film Festival, The Other End of the Phone, Denver, CO
2012 Black Maria Film Festival, To Do, New Jersey, traveling exhibition
Videoholica, Open, Varna, Bulgaria
Starz Denver Film Festival, Open, Denver, CO
Film One Fest, To Do, Atlantic City, NJ
Experiments in Cinema, Open, Albuquerque, NM
Experiments in Cinema Ecuador, (condensed version), Open, Quito, Ecuador
2011 Society for Photographic Education, SPE National Conference Film Festival, Atlanta, GA
Black Maria Film Festival, Small Secrets, NJ traveling exhibition
YBOR Festival of the Moving Image, Fixtures, Tampa, FL
Experiments in Cinema, Small Secrets, Albuquerque, NM
Film One Fest, Small Secrets, Atlantic City, NJ
2010 Experiments in Cinema, Found: Nothing Missing, Albuquerque, NM
Athens International Film + Video Festival, Found: Nothing Missing, Athens, OH
Black Maria Film Festival, Found: Nothing Missing, New Jersey, traveling exhibition
Artists’ Television Access Film Festival, Found:Nothing Missing, San Francisco, CA
Carnegie Museum of Art, Two-Minute Film Festival, Fixtures, Pittsburgh, PA
Taos Shortz Film Fest, Found: Nothing Missing, Taos, NM
2009 New Mexico Film Expo, Found: Nothing Missing, Santa Fe, NM
Taos Shortz Film Fest, Loose Connections and in/organic transmissions, Taos, NM
Experiments in Cinema, in/organic transmissions, Albuquerque, NM
One Minute Film Festival, in/organic transmissions, Atlantic City, NJ
2008 Black Maria Film Festival, Signs and Not Only Just Coffee, New Jersey, traveling exhibition
Santa Fe Film Festival, in/organic transmissions, Santa Fe, NM
YBOR Festival of the Moving Image, Not Only Just Coffee, Tampa, FL
Experiments in Cinema, Not Only Just Coffee, Albuquerque, NM
Athens International Film + Video Festival, Not Only Just Coffee, Athens, OH
Gate City Women’s Film Festival, Not Only Just Coffee, Greensboro, NC
Phoenix Film Festival, Signs, Phoenix, AZ
White Sands Film Festival, Not Only Just Coffee, Alamogordo, NM
2007 Santa Fe Film Festival, Not Only Just Coffee, Santa Fe, NM
Taos Shortz Film Fest, Not Only Just Coffee and Signs, Taos, NM
All Souls Film Festival, Tel-Line, Tucson, AZ
Gulf Coast Film & Video Festival, Signs and Fixtures, Houston, TX
One Minute Film and Video Fest, Tel-Line, Narrowsburgh, NY
Millennium Film Workshop, Signs, New York, NY
New Mexico Filmmakers Showcase, Fixtures, Albuquerque, NM
Santa Fe Traveling Show, Signs, Santa Fe, NM
Experiments in Cinema, Signs, Albuquerque, NM
Gallery exhibitions
2020 Abend Gallery Artists Off Grid, Denver, CO
Arvada Arts Center, Pink Progression, Lakewood, CO
2019 Rotunda Gallery, Navigating Diversity: Identity + Religion in Public Space, Lakewood, CO
Philip J. Steele Gallery, Biennial RMCAD Faculty + Staff Exhibition, Lakewood, CO
2018 Nicodemus Vistor Center, Nicodemus Elders, Nicodemus, KS
2017 Philip J. Steele Gallery, Passing Time, Lakewood, CO
2016 New Media New Mexico Exhibition & Visionfest, Center for the Arts, Hobbs, NM
Rude Gallery, Stopped In Time, Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design, Lakewood, CO
2015 Ice Cube Gallery, Icebreaker 6, Denver, CO
Philip J. Steele Gallery, Living Gallery, Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design, Lakewood, CO
Denver School of Photography, Picture Yourself Out, Denver, CO
2014 Counterpath, Cruzando Caminos, Denver, CO (solo show)
John Jellico Gallery, never half, Denver, CO
2013 MASS MoCA: One Minute Film Festival, Telephone, North Adams, MA
Ice Cube Gallery, Icebreaker 4, Denver, CO
MoMA PopRally: Abstract Currents, Frantic Calm, New York, NY
El Museo Cultural, To Do, currents 2013, Santa Fe, NM
Massachusetts Green High-Performance CC, Reachfest,Turning On Ideas, Holyoke, MA
2012 Index Art Center, Filmideo, Newark NJ
2011 ArtSpace Hartford, Nature Nourishes, Hartford, CT
PhotoPlace Gallery, Online Gallery Annex, The Nature of Trees, Middlebury, VT
John Jellico Gallery, Through the Eyes of Ten, Denver, CO
2010 El Museo Cultural, Fixtures, currents 2010, Santa Fe, NM
wall space gallery, Everything Leaves, New Directions/Down+Out , Seattle, WA
2010 Sandy Gallery, Everything Leaves, New Directions/Down+Out , Portland, OR
qarrtsiluni, online literary magazine, Health issue, in/organic transmissions, http://qarrtsiluni.com/
2009 L.A. Brewery Annex and LA Artcore, in/organic transmissions, West Southwest, Los Angeles, CA
516 ARTS, in/organic transmissions, West Southwest, Albuquerque, NM
2008 Back to Basics, Gallery RFD, Tracks, Best of Show, Swainsboro. GA
Times/Time/Timing, in/organic transmissions,Vermont College Alumni Exhibition, online
VSA Arts Gallery, in/organic transmissions,Tin Can Banana Show, Albuquerque, NM
2007 Wood Gallery, MFA Thesis Exhibit, gallery video Loose Connections, Montpelier, VT
Q Center Gallery,Ten Years of Gertrude Press, gallery video Loose Connections, Portland, OR
Off Center Arts Gallery, Dead Ahead II, video The Beginning is Near, Albuquerque, NM
2006 Q Center Gallery,Solo Exhibition, still photography, Beyond Borders, Portland, OR
2005 Rainbow Planet Gallery,Solo Exhibition, still photography, Bushmen in Botswana, Tucson, AZ
Education
2007 Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, Vermont
1993 Semester Abroad, FAMU, photography program, Prague, Czech Republic
1992 Bachelor of Journalism, emphasis photo, with honors, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
1989 Associate of Arts, photography, language, liberal arts (three degrees) Casper College, Casper, Wyoming
Teaching Experience
Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Lakewood, Colorado 2014-present
adjunct photography and video instructor
The Denver School of Photography, Denver, Colorado 2014-present
Part-time photography instructor
Art Institute of Colorado, Denver, Colorado 2010-2014
Part-time photography and video instructor.
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 2010
Adjunct photography instructor teaching a digital photography class emphasizing: project work, conceptual art and Lightroom/Photoshop.
Central New Mexico Community College, Albuquerque, New Mexico 2009-2010
Writing tutor at the college tutoring center specializing in help on college essays.
Media Arts Collaborative Charter School, Albuquerque, New Mexico 2008-2009
Digital photography instructor at charter high school with a focus on media arts.
AmeriCorps Volunteer--Albuquerque, New Mexico 2007-2008
Worked with at risk youth in community centers doing art projects after school. Also a photography instructor to incarcerated youth (ages 13-19).
Awards/Residencies/Panels
Artist In Residence, Artists Off Grid, Red Feather Lakes, CO 2018
Artist In Residence, Herbert Hoover National Park Site, West Branch, Iowa 2016
Artist In Residence, Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design, Lakewood, CO 2015
Brush Creek Artist Residency, Artist Residency, Saratoga, Wyoming 2011
Jentel, Artist Residency, Banner, Wyoming, 2009
Faculty Development Grant, Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design, Lakewood, CO 2015
Creative Process Workshop, visiting workshop presenter, Salt Lake City, Utah 2011
Best Experimental Film, Taos Shortz Film Festival 2010
New Visions/New Mexico Contract Awards, Selection Panel 2008-2009
Best of Show, Back to Basics, Gallery RFD, Tracks, Swainsboro, Georgia 2007
2008 New Visions/New Mexico Contract Award-State of New Mexico funding for New Mexico Filmmakers
More than 30 other awards in still newspaper photography from local to national levels including: illustration, portrait, news, photo story, feature, pictorial and sports. A list of specific awards is available upon request.
Photojournalism Experience
Tucson Weekly/Inside Tucson Business, Tucson, Arizona 2005
solo staff photographer for alternative weekly and business weekly publications
Travel Photography 2003-2004
self-funded trip around the world, taking and donating photos to five volunteer organizations along the way
Tucson-Citizen, Tucson, Arizona 2000-2003
staff photographer for daily newspaper, including in-depth reporting along the US/Mexico border
Freelance, Phoenix, Arizona 1999-2000
full-time freelance photographer
clients included: Associated Press, USA Today, CitySearch Website, Mesa/Scottsdale Tribune
Longmont Times-Call, Longmont, Colorado 1997-1999
staff photographer at daily newspaper
Casper Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyoming 1995-1997
staff photographer at daily newspaper
La Nacion, San Jose, Costa Rica 1995
photography intern at Spanish language daily newspaper
The Denver Post, Denver, Colorado 1994
photography intern and freelancer at daily newspaper
Volunteer Work in Photography
Picture Me Here 2014
Volunteered teaching photography to refugees from Bhutan who had just arrived in Denver from a refugee camp in Nepal.
Denver Rescue Mission Photo Outreach 2012
Participated with students and faculty to photograph families staying at the rescue mission to provide them quality portraits for their loved ones. We photographed 24 families in need and presented them with a portrait.
Tsunami Photo Rescue 2011
Volunteered with students and faculty to digitally restore images damaged by the tsunami in Japan.
Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure 2010
Volunteered with students to photograph the event from start to finish and provide images to the foundation free of charge.
Emerging Exposures 2010-2011
Volunteered with college students as a mentor and teacher to elementary school children at a school with limited funds over a course of two years. We taught classes, mentored children one to one, printed images and produced an exhibition.
Photos Published
Books: America 24/7, Andrew Weil audio book (cover), Saguaro Cactus: Desert Giant, The Art of the Animal
Magazines: U.S. News & World Report, Newsweek, Shots, News Photographer, Runner’s World, Latino Future
Newspapers: New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, USA Today, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Honolulu Advertiser, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Denver Post, The Prague Post (Czech),Dallas Morning News, Toronto Star
Countries Traveled
Argentina, Australia, Austria, Botswana, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czech Republic, England Fiji, Germany, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Lesotho, Mauritius, Mexico, Namibia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Poland, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Switzerland, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe
