CAREER HIGHLIGHTS/CV

SELECT EXHIBITIONS, SCREENINGS, PERFORMANCES

2024       

INSTAR (Solo Sculptural Exhibition) – Robert F. DiCaprio Gallery, Moraine Valley Community College (Jan 2024)

2023       

BLUE IN THE MOUTH (Film/Performance) – Director/Choreographer – Links Hall – Inaside Spring Concert – (Chicago) April 2023

2022      

FADE INTO ME: IDENTITY & ABSTRACTION – Group Show at Gallery 400 – Chicago March 2022

COPULUM (Happening) – Sculptor/Choreographer, Featuring Eric Palovick – UIC Art & Exhibition Hall – Chicago, IL (March 2022)

2021       

LEFT BEHIND (Installation) – Sculptor/Activator – UIC Art & Exhibition Hall – Chicago, IL (May 2021)

WHEN BREATH LEAVES THE BODY (Happening)- Sculptor/Activator, Featuring Myself, Juan Banos – UIC Art & Exhibition Hall – Chicago, IL  (March 2021)

INTWEEN (Performance/Film) – Director/Choreographer/Camera, Featuring Kristen Vasilakos – UIC Art & Exhibition Hall – Chicago, IL (February 2021)

2020       

ELLE (Performance/Film) – Director/Choreographer/Camera – Featuring Rachel Spies & Kristen Vasilakos, Chicago, IL August 2020

BUG (Performance Film) – Director/Choreographer/Camera – Performed by Kristen Vasilakos, Chicago, IL February 2020

2019

MATHS (FIGURE 1) – Director/Choreographer/Camera – Developed/performed in residence with Inaside Chicago Dance, Chicago, IL October 2019

KILL YOUR DARLINGS – Writer/Director/Choreographer – Developed/performed in residence with Big Muddy Dance Company, St. Louis MO October 2019

EVERYTHING’S GOING TO BE JUST FINE – Writer/Director/Choreographer – Developed/performed in residence with Big Muddy Dance Company, St. Louis MO October 2019

FOOTSTEPS THROUGH THE CHARNEL HOUSE – Director/Choreographer – Developed/performed in residence with Big Muddy Dance Company, St. Louis MO October 2019

MERDER/CIRCADIA – Director/Choreographer – Developed/performed in residence with Big Muddy Dance Company, St. Louis MO October 2019

ANTUMBRA (Performance Film) – Writer/Director/Choreographer/Camera – Featuring Fernando Rodriguez & Rachel Spies, Chicago, IL November 2018-Feb 2019

2015

RABBIT – Choreographer/Camera (2015)

2013

DAYLIGHT (Performance Film) – Director/Choreographer/Camera (2013)

2012

BOY.GIRL.DRUM (Performance Film) – Writer/Director/Composer/Choreographer -Premiere: Little Rock Film Festival (May 2013)

2010

FANCY (Performance Film) – Writer/Director/Choreographer/Camera – SELECT SCREENINGS: Cinema Speakeasy – ‘Relationship Therapy for the Modern Human’, Los Angeles, CA (2011); Miami Short Film Fest (2010); Fort Lauderdale International Film Fest, FL (2010); Moondance Film Fest, Boulder CO (2010); Rhode Island International Film Fest (2010); Foursite Film Fest, Ogden UT (2010); Little Rock Film Fest, AR (2010)

2008

BUTTERFLY (Performance Film) – Writer/Director/Choreographer – SELECT SCREENINGS: Little Rock International Film Fest (2009); Bare Bones Film Fest, Muskogee, OK (2009); Lake Arrowhead Film Fest, CA (2009); Miami Short Film Fest (2008); Chicago International Film Fest (2008)

1996

PHOTOGRAPHS, DREAMS & OTHER STRANGE THINGS – Solo Show at Artemisia Gallery (Chicago)

1995

POLAROID CORPORATION (Cambridge, MA) – Collection

1994

CHICAGO FINE ARTS “GRAND OPENING” – Group Show at Chicago Fine Arts Exchange

1993

KRANNERT ART MUSEUM (Urbana, IL) – Collection

1992

CONTEMPORARY TRENDS ’92/THE CURRENT AVANT-GARDE – Group Show at Artsquad Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

DREAMAGICIMAGEDREAM – Solo Show at McKinley Foundation Arts Gallery (Champaign, IL)

SELECT AWARDS & RECOGNITION

2023        

ILLINOIS ARTS COUNCIL – Individual Artists Support Grant

2022        

UIC DEAN’S PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AWARD – College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts

2014       

MIDWEST EMMY® (Nomination)– Outstanding Arts Special (A Light in the Dark)

2012 

MIDWEST EMMY® (Nomination) – Outstanding Cultural Documentary (Beneath the White City Lights)

2008     

CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FEST GOLD HUGO (Nomination) – Best Short Film (Butterfly)

MIDWEST EMMY® (Nomination) – Outstanding Contemporary Documentary (The Artsiders®)

MIDWEST EMMY® (AWARD) – Outstanding Informational Program/Segment (Walkaround)

1998       

GOSPEL MUSIC ASSOCIATION DOVE (AWARD) – Best Long Form Music Video

SELECT SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

2023

SIGGRAPH (Los Angeles, CA)-Educators Forum (August 2023) – Presenter/Panelist- “The Embodied Camera”

DEPAUL UNIVERSITY (Chicago, IL) (March 2023) – Visiting Artist – “Stories of Time and Light”

COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION (111th Annual Conference), NYC, NY (Feb 2023) – Presenter/Panelist – “The Praxis of Play”

2022

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MILWAUKEE (Milwaukee, WI) – Visiting Artist – “Hacking Time”

2016-17

HINSDALE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL (Hinsdale, IL) – Guest Artist/Featured Speaker- “Experiential Thinking”

2014

EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY– Doudna Performing Arts Center – Guest Artist w/ Melissa Thodos –  “The White City: Audience Talk”

2012

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS– School of Fine and Applied Arts – Keynote Speaker “A Cross Disciplinary Life”

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LEADERSHIP SERIES – Keynote Speaker – “Through the Looking Glass”

2011

WILLIAM CLINTON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY – Presenter – “Karl Dahl Film Premiere – Audience Talk”

LITTLE ROCK FILM FEST – Festival Presenter/Panelist – “Art of the Short Film”

2010

LITTLE ROCK FILM FEST – Festival Presenter/Panelist – “Digital Filmmaking Techniques”

MIAMI SHORT FILM FEST – Festival Presenter/Panelist – “Art of the Short Film”

BORDERS BOOKS/RHODE ISLAND INT’L FILM FEST – Guest Speaker “Attack of the 50’ Green Screen”

2003

ITT TECHNICAL INSTITUTE – Guest Speaker “Preparing for a Career in Digital Effects”

SIGGRAPH (Trade Show) – Host “VICON Virtual Camera Techniques – Red Truck Rally”

2002-03

ARTIMATION FILM FESTIVAL – Festival Panelist “Animation Production Roundtable”

2002

ILLINOIS INSTITUTES OF ART (Schaumburg) – Presenter/Host – “Virtual Cinematography Bootcamp”

2001

NORTHERN ILLINOIS MACROMEDIA FLASH USERS GROUP – Presenter/Host – “The Art of Cartoonium™”

ILLINOIS INSTITUTES OF ART – Keynote Speaker – “Graduation Commencement Keynote Speech”

ILLINOIS INSTITUTES OF ART (Schaumburg) – Presenter/Host – “The Art of Threads”

1999

COLUMBIA COLLEGE (Chicago) – Guest Artist/Featured Speaker – “Creative Animation Production Techniques”

CHICAGO SCREENWRITERS GUILD – Guest Speaker – “Writing for Animation and Live Action”

1998

TRITON COLLEGE – Guest Artist/Featured Speaker – “Preparing for a Career in Animation”

1997

CHICAGO WOMEN IN FILM – Panelist – “Chicago Animation and Production Round Table”

SELECT RESIDENCIES & COLLABORATIVE WORKS

DEEPLY ROOTED DANCE THEATRE (Chicago)– Artist in Residence (May 2023)

INASIDE DANCE COMPANY (Chicago) – Artist in Residence (October 2019)

BIG MUDDY DANCE COMPANY (ST. Louis, MO) – Artist in Residence (October 2019)

GINGARTE CAPOEIRA (Chicago)– Artist in Residence (2015-2020)

DEEPLY ROOTED DANCE THEATRE (Chicago)– Guest Filmmaker (September 2017)

THODOS DANCE (Chicago) – Artist in Residence (2009-2019)

SELECT ADDITIONAL SCREENINGS

2016

Marquis Theatre, NYC (Sono’s Journey Film Teaser @ Career Transitions for Dancers Jubilee)

Harris Theatre for Music and dance, Chicago (Chicago Revealed)

2015

PBS Broadcast Television Premiere (A Light in the Dark)

North Shore Center for the Performing Arts (Salute to Sybil Shearer & Chicago Inspired)

Fergus Falls School of Dance, Fergus Falls, MN (Shine)

Dixie Carter Center for the Arts, Huntingdon, TN (Shine)

2014

Auditorium Theater, Chicago (The White City & Salute to Sybil Shearer)

Music Box Theatre, Chicago (Madzilla – Beneath the Scales)

Doudna Auditorium (The White City), Eastern Illinois University

Hettenhausen Theater, McKendree State University, Lebanon, IL (The White City)

Hammons Auditorium, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO (The White City)

Leach Theater, Missouri Science and Technical College, Rolla, MO (The White City)

2013

Menker Theater, Moraine Valley Community College, Palos Hills, IL (The White City)

2012

Emens Auditorium, Ball State University, Muncie IN (The White City)

Gerald E Wilson Auditorium, Kodiak AK (Fosse Prelude)

Anchorage Performing Arts Center, Anchorage AK (Fosse Prelude)

Sitka Performing Arts Center, Anchorage, AK (Fosse Prelude)

Kayhi Auditorium, Ketchikan, AK (Fosse Prelude)

Juneau Douglas High School, Juneau, AK (Fosse Prelude)

Chilkat Center for the Arts, Haines, AK (Fosse Prelude)

Skagway City School, Skagway, AK (Fosse Prelude)

Harris Theatre for Music and dance, Chicago (The White City)

John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI (The White City)

Schein Performance Hall, Sanibel, FL (Fosse Prelude)

2011

Young Auditorium, UW, Whitewater, WI (Fosse Prelude)

McAnich Arts Center, College of DuPage (The White City)

Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Chicago (The White City)

2010

Big Bear Lake Film Fest – Big Bear Lake, CA (Fosse Prelude)

Reno Film Festival, NV (Ursula the Ubergirl)

Duke Performance Hall – Davidson, NC (Fosse Prelude)

Kuss Auditorium, Clark State University – Springfield, OH (Fosse Prelude)

Allaert Auditorium, St. Ambrose University – Davenport, IA (Fosse Prelude)

2009

Harris Theatre for Music and dance – Chicago, IL (Fosse Prelude)

North Shore Center for the Performing Arts – Skokie, IL (Fosse Prelude)

SELECT TEACHING ENGAGEMENTS

2022-23       University of Illinois – Chicago (School of Art & Art History) – Adjunct Associate Professor (Film & Animation)

2021-22       University of Illinois – Chicago (School of Art & Art History) – Instructor of Record (Film & Animation)

2019-       Depaul University (School of Cinematic Arts) – Adjunct Faculty (Film, Animation and Visual Effects)

1998        Columbia College of Chicago – CGI Animation Program – Co-Founder/Curriculum Developer

1995-98  Columbia College of Chicago (Animation) – Educational Consultant/Part-Time Faculty (CGI Animation)

1993        University of Illinois (College of Fine and Applied Arts) – Teaching Assistant (CGI Animation)

1993        University of Illinois (College of Fine and Applied Arts) – Teaching Assistant (Time Arts)

1992        University of Illinois (College of Fine and Applied Arts) – Teaching Assistant (Intro to Photography)