Documentary Photography/Workshop Facilitation/Licensed Psychotherapy
2003-Current: Commercial Digital Photography – Equipment: D-200 Nikon and Epson 4000 archival printing studio. Giclee Printing. 2003-Current: Web site Design and construction. Graphic Design
2003-Current: Finding the Balance – A pictorial book of images from twenty years of documentary work on Navajoland, accompanied by collaborative writings. This project is a work in progress.
1999: Colorado Council on the Arts - Grant recipient of Artist Fellowship from Colorado Council on the Arts for documentation of western Colorado farming community. Through candid portraiture and landscape images, the project documented the disappearance of farming in the Grand Valley of western Colorado. The project culminated in a gallery show of medium-format black and white images in Fruita, CO. See Farm ‘99. A pictorial book of these images and related stories is planned.
1990-Current: Workshop Facilitator/Licensed Therapist/Fitness Consultant - Conduct photographic workshops and spiritual retreats.
1994-Current: InVision Psychological Services-Sole Proprietor. Provide individual, family and group treatment, hypnotherapy, and fitness consulting in established private practice-Grand Junction, Colorado. See: invisionwellness.com
1986-1990: Arizona Commission on the Arts, Phoenix, AZ.
Project Co-Director/ Photographer
Grant writer and funding recipient for documentary work established by invitation of traditional healers of Navajo healing ceremonies and sacred areas. Co-directed the Hajiinei-Dine’tah Place of Emergence Project by collaborating with twelve artists from various tribes and nationalities to produce a national traveling exhibition consisting of photos, video, paintings, sculpture and allegorical writings. Dine’tah is located in the four corners area and documents many exchanges between late Anasazi and early Athabascan (Navajo/Apache) peoples. The Arizona Commission on the Arts funded artists’ traveling expenses and stipends for artwork, while coordinating the traveling exhibition for a three-year period. This project was instrumental in the Navajo Tribe’s purchase in 1988 of the Largo Canyon and Crow Mesa Ranches in order to protect ancestral home sites. Tony Hillerman also assisted in our presentation to the Tribal leaders, and securing this ancestral area listed as a national historic area.
1984-1990: Chinle Unified Schools, Chinle, AZ. - Director, Navajo Curriculum and Development Center. Supervised a staff of twelve Navajo graphic and video artists, writers and production staff in development of culturally based Navajo school K-12 curriculum for distribution nationally. Lectured nationally on topics including; art in the classroom, visual strengths of ESL students, cross-cultural photographic projects and bringing Native American culture into the classroom. Taught many Talented-Gifted/ESL Native American students black-white photography and book production from 1978-1990. Photographer/Consultant for Arizona Highways Magazine.
1982-1984: Colorado Mountain College-Photography Instructor / Studio Manager - , Vail, CO / SummerVail Workshops for Art and Critical Studies.Taught black and white, color photography in a community college/art institute setting. Assisted visiting photographers from National Geographic Magazine and nationally known landscape and fashion photographers.
1983: - Eagle County Arts Council, Vail, CO
Grant recipient of the council’s annual artist award. One year project of documentary black and white work of homestead families in Vail and Beavercreek valleys.
Exhibitions:
Summer 2002 – We R All 1, 20 years of documentary images depicted in an A/V slide show from life on Navajoland and other cross-cultural settings– Shows in Pagosa Springs, Crestone and Durango, CO and Moab, UT.
October 2000 – Adams State College, Graduate Studies Department – Alamosa, CO. Guest Lecturer and artist.
August 2000 – Manitou Foundation – Crestone, CO. Guest Lecturer and artist.
March 2000 - Farm ‘99 – Planet Earth Gallery - Grand Junction, CO one-man show - 16 x20” black/white images documenting changing landscape in western Colorado farming industry. Landscape and candid portraiture comprise the exhibit. Funding provided by the Colorado Commission on the Arts.
December 1999 - Farm ‘99 - Civic Center, Fruita, CO 16 x20” black/white images documenting changing landscape in western Colorado farming industry. Landscape and candid portraiture comprise the exhibit. Funding provided by the Colorado Commission on the Arts.
March 1999 - Costa Rica Highlands and coastal regions.
Documentary color images in a one-man show. Planet Earth Gallery, Grand Junction, CO.
1998 - A day in the Life of Grand Junction - A multi-media collaboration with Mesa State College Dancers, community skateboard kids, Native American Dancers and community children. Created and directed by Kent Tompkins. Presented at the Avalon Theatre.
1994 - Navajo Retrospective - Color and black/white images from Navajo ceremonial portfolio. Western Colorado Center for the Arts, Grand Junction, CO
1992 - Western Colorado Center For the Arts. Grand Junction, CO Audio-Visual Presentation and lecture on Navajo Ceremonial Life.
1992 - Society For Photographic Education-Santa Fe, NM / Anderson Ranch-Snowmass, CO – Guest lecturer on Dine’tah-Hajiinei The Place of Emergence project with co-director Will B. Tsosie, Jr.
1989-1992 - Dine’tah-Hajiinei The Place of Emergence
Navajo Ceremonial Site documentation - A 50 piece black/white national traveling exhibition. Funded and coordinated by the Arizona Commission on the Arts. Locations: Heard Museum-Pheonix, AZ, Navajo Community College-Tsaile, AZ, Anasazi Heritage Center-Cortez, CO, Miami Dade Community College-Miami, FL, White Mountain Apache Reservation-Whiteriver, AZ, Anderson Ranch-Snowmass, CO, Society For Photographic Education-Santa Fe, NM.
Education:
2006-2007-American Council of Hypnotist Examiners, Clinical Hypnotherapy Certification
1994 - Licensed Professional Counselor #949, State of CO
1992 - M.A. - Community Counseling - Adams State College, Alamosa, CO, with majority of Graduate work completed in Clinical Rehabilitation - University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO
1982 - Photographic Internship with Ansel Adams, Carmel, CA
1974 - B.A., B.S. - Special Education/Social Psychology - University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO
Advanced Academic Training: 2005 - Hypnotherapy Academy of America, Santa Fe, NM - Accelerated Healing Techniques. 2003 - Gene Abel, Atlanta, GA - Abel Screen Assessment
1996 / 1998 (respectively) - Therapist/Evaluator at Full Operating Level - Colorado Sex Offender Management Board.
1992-1993 - Clinical Hypnotherapy Training - Dr. Louise Frey, MD, Cedaredge and Durango, CO |
