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STATEMENT
I
am an award-winning art director and artist with over ten years of production
experience in animation production for MTV, Disney and Nickelodeon, where I
hired, managed and mentored staff artists and designers. I am also an arts educator, bringing
with me five years of combined academic arts experience. Building relationships has been central
to many of my professional successes in both animation production and in
academia. My hiring and mentoring
successes have been cited in David B. Levy’s Animation Development from
Pitch to Production. My art
has been shown in NY, NJ, and CA.
ACADEMIC ARTS EXPERIENCE
California
State University Stanislaus Art Department Turlock, CA 2/07-Present
LECTURER
§ Teach
upper division film/video and illustration courses
§ Participate
in semi-annual BFA student critiques providing the professional design
perspective for design, media and digital students
§ Review
portfolios of incoming / transfer students interested in digital design and
media
INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPORT TECHNICIAN / STUDIO
MANAGER
§ Designed,
coordinated, launched and manage the first Digital Media Studio for the College
of the Arts ensuring a state-of-the-art Mac facility for teaching and student
recruitment, including supervision and hiring of student monitors and
assistants
§ Support
instruction of all 2D and Digital Media courses in the Art department by
assisting faculty and students with instructional and curricular needs as well
as ensuring student access to studio spaces and equipment
§ Initiated
studio safety best practices program resulting in University Safety Award
Honorable Mention
Sony
Pictures Media Arts Program/CalArts Community Art Program Los Angeles, CA 9/01-5/03
TEACHING ASSISTANT / CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
§ Provide
educational outreach for California Institute of the Arts in greater Los
Angeles by teaching animation to a diverse group of teens to engage them in
arts education
§ Introduced
drawing for animation design and art history movements to curriculum
California
Institute Of The Arts Valencia,
CA 9/01-5/02
TEACHING ASSISTANT /
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
§ Assisted
Lou Florimonte, Director of the Graduate Film Directing Program by providing
in-class preparation and curriculum development support
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDENT TEACHING ASSISTANT /
ESL TUTOR
§ ESL
Tutor for undergraduate students- Student Affairs Office
Modesto
Junior College
Art Gallery
Modesto, CA 3/09
CURATOR
§ Celebration
of the Humanities
Art Exhibition
Guest
Artist Lectures
California State University Stanislaus Department
of Art. Turlock, CA 2008
The Chartreuse Muse Gallery, “Christian Hali:
Contemporary Painting.” Modesto,
CA 2008
California State University Stanislaus Department
of Art. Turlock, CA 2007
PRODUCTION EXPERIENCE
Daniel
Ostroff Productions
Santa Fe, NM 4/04-9/05
CREATIVE EXECUTIVE
§ Recommended
and developed children’s and family properties for film / TV
§ Designed
and assisted in presenting re-development plans, which included educational
film-based initiatives for the Santa Fe Railyard Community Corporation
Disney
Channel Burbank,
CA 12/02-12/03
ART DIRECTOR / WRITER / DESIGNER
“Word
of the Day with Page and Clay” Interstitials On-Air and Online New Media
§ Designed
30 Interstitials to drive Disney Playhouse’s educational message “play to
learn” successfully earning the Parents’ Choice Silver Award for TV Broadcast
§ Designed
online companion ‘printables’ successfully driving consumer traffic to the
Playhouse website
“Holiday
Surprises with Clay” Launch Stunt On-Air
“Everyday
Surprises with Clay” Launch Stunt On-Air
§ Concepted,
wrote, designed, art and animation directed 10 Interstitials successfully
promoting new fall and spring show launches.
“Tell
Me A Story Time” Pilot Development
§ Created
look and feel of pilot to illustrate non-scripted stories told by children
Trio
Channel/ Universal TV / Big Shoe Production Company N. Hollywood, CA 1/03-
3/03
VISUALS EDITOR / RESEARCHER
“Outlaw Comic: The
Censoring of Bill Hicks”
§ Researched
story points, negotiated image use, and edited unique photos / illustrations
used to effectively link and drive the narrative forward
Nickelodeon New York, NY 1/96-8/00
SENIOR ART DIRECTOR
“Blue’s Clues” and “Blue’s Big
Musical Movie with Ray Charles”
· Managed
and directed the two-team art department staff of 7 and supervised the art
direction of the two-team Digital Design department staff of 8
· Implemented
the two-team production model and ensured creative staff buy-in resulting in
doubled production output and delivery ahead of schedule
ART DIRECTOR
“Blue’s Clues”
· Developed
the look and feel of the show by designing all visual elements
· Successfully
created, staffed and mentored the art department increasing output by 200%,
achieved the highest staff retention rate on the production, and initiated the
use of model sheets and art direction of the digital design department which
increased pipeline efficiency by 25%
· Illustrated
Blue’s First Book, Simon & Schuster New York, NY
· Illustrated
Blue’s Big Book of Clues, Blue’s Clue Cards, Landoll Books New York, NY
MTV
Networks Animation Studio New York, NY 7/95-1/96
Production Assistant / Production Artist
“Beavis and Butt-Head” series
“MTV Video Music
Awards” Bumpers
“Aeon Flux” series & book The Herodotus File
“Safety Queen” Nickelodeon Creative Lab
/ MTV Animation
· Effectively
supported production pipeline by pencil testing animated sequences, dubbing
tapes, duplicating storyboards, designing and cataloguing studio tape library
and supervising production assistant
PROFESSIONAL AWARDS
Creative
Work Fund Grant Finalist, The Walter & Elise Haas
Fund, San Francisco, CA 2009
Emmy
Nominations
(various show categories)- "Blue's Clues" Nickelodeon
Peabody
Award - "Blue's
Clues"
Nickelodeon
Parents'
Choice Award Broadcast Gold: "Blue's Clues" Nickelodeon
Parents' Choice Award
Broadcast Silver:
"Word of the Day" Disney Channel
TV
Guide Award Winner
- "Blue's Clues" Nickelodeon
Television
Critics Award for Outstanding Children's Show - "Blue's Clues" Nickelodeon
First
Place Mixed Media,
Turlock City Arts Commission 27th Annual Juried Art Show
EXHIBITIONS
2012 Solo
Show Modesto
Junior College Gallery, Modesto, CA
2010 John
Stuart Rogers Faculty Development Center, CSU Stanislaus, Turlock, CA
Gibson, Los Angeles, CA
MICA, Baltimore, MD
2009 Turlock
City Arts Commission 27th Annual Juried Art Show’, City Hall
Gallery,
Turlock, CA
‘Group Show’, Chartreuse Muse Gallery, Modesto, CA
Gibson, Los Angeles, CA
2008 ‘3
Person Show’, Chartreuse Muse Gallery, Modesto, CA
Gibson, Los Angeles, CA
John Stuart Rogers Faculty Development Center, CSU Stanislaus,
Turlock, CA
Wright Gallery, CSU
Fresno, Fresno CA
Conley Gallery, CSU Fresno, Fresno
CA
2007 Gibson, Los Angeles, CA
2006 ‘Stuff’,
Gibson,
Los Angeles, CA
2005 Gibson, Los Angeles, CA
2004 ‘Eclectic’,
Gibson,
Los Angeles, CA
2003 ‘Solo
Show: Paintings and Drawings’, Cartoon Network, Burbank CA
‘Heat’, Gibson, Los Angeles, CA
2002 ‘Stuff’,
Gibson,
Los Angeles, CA
1998 ‘Silent Auction AIDS Benefit’, Archdioceses of Newark, Polo Gallery, Edgewater,
NJ
1997 ‘Story
Tellers’, Polo Gallery, Edgewater, NJ
MTV Networks Gallery, New York, NY
1996 ‘Sign
Language’, Curator: George Haas, Polo Gallery, Edgewater, NJ
‘Urban Order’, Polo Gallery, Edgewater, NJ
MTV Networks Gallery, New York, NY
1995 MTV
Networks Gallery,
New York, NY
1993 ‘BFA
Senior Show’, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
‘Functional Form’, Juried Show, Belle Levine
Arts Center,
Mahopac, NY
‘31st Annual Putnam Arts Council Juried Fine Arts
Show’, Belle Levine Arts Center, Mahopac, NY
1992 ‘30th Annual Putnam Arts Council Juried Fine Arts Show’, Belle Levine Arts
Center, Mahopac, NY
Purple Lounge Gallery, SUNY New Paltz, New
Paltz NY
COLLECTIONS
AND COMMISSIONS
University
of California Santa Cruz McHenry Library Archives, Santa Cruz CA
12th
Annual Grateful Dead Caucus Southwest/Texas American Popular Culture Assoc,
Albuquerque, NM
Daniel
Afonso, Turlock, CA
Chuck
Silva & John Yarborough, Modesto, CA
Lee
Davis, Turlock, CA
John
& Annalia Idol, Watermill, NY
Daniel
Ostroff Productions, Los Angeles, CA
Walton
Goggins, Los Angeles, CA
Niki
Sanoff, Los Angeles, CA
Charles
Hornberger & Bonnie Bills, Los Angeles, CA
Amy
Epman & Darren Griffith, El Segundo, CA
Susan
& Yanir Ram, Palmdale, CA
Kirsten
Olson & Richard James, Newark, DE
Mr.
& Mrs. Wertheimer, Nanuet, NY
Mr.
& Mrs. Rodriquez, Morristown, NJ
Sarah
Harford, Norwich, CT
REVIEWS
AND PUBLICATIONS
Millegan,
Lisa. “Portrait of an Artist: Christian Hali.” Modesto Bee 7 Sept. 2008. Print. Web.
Chin, Fiona. “Downfall of American Society Topic of Artist’s Work.” Turlock Journal 24
Sept. 2008.
Colleta, Lisa. “Artwork: Shipbuilding.” Trepan (2002) Print.
Aders,
M. “Universal
Sign Language.” Rev. of Sign Language exhibition.
SunStorm Fine Arts Magazine1996. Print.
Haas, George and Robert Zimmerman. Catalogue: Sign Language, SunStorm
Publishing1996. Print.
Watkins, Eileen. “A Meeting of the Primitive and Contemporary.” Rev. of Urban Order
exhibition. Star Ledger 1996. Print.
EDUCATION
Maryland
Institute College of Art Baltimore, MD
M.F.A. CANDIDATE INSTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIO ARTS
· Awarded
top merit scholarship
California
State University Summer Arts Fresno, CA
GRADUATE STUDY: 3D COMPUTER ANIMATION / DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
California
Institute of the Arts
Valencia, CA
GRADUATE FILM DIRECTING
· Awarded
Ahmanson Merit Scholarship
State
University of New York at New Paltz New Paltz, NY
B.F.A. PAINTING / MINOR CREATIVE WRITING
· Awarded
Outstanding Senior, School of Fine and Performing Arts
· Cum
Laude
Rhode
Island School of Design Providence, RI
UNDERGRADUATE FINE ART & INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
SKILLS & SOFTWARE & INTERESTS
Computer: Mac
& PC literate
Software: Proficient in Microsoft Office, Photoshop, Final Cut Express, Final Draft, IE, Safari, Firefox, iPhoto, working knowledge of Illustrator, Maya, Aperture
Skills: Public
speaking, team building, mentoring, art direction, illustration, animation,
painting, digital photography, teaching
Interests: Art, education, art direction, illustration, animation, architecture, film,
theater,
painting