Artist Resume
Education
RefactorU Software Development Program
Boulder, Colorado November 2013
Max/MSP Certificate Program
Harvestworks Digital Media Center, New York, New York May 2010
Bachelor of Arts, Music
Theater Arts, Minor
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN May 2001
Teachers
• Artists on the Verge mentor: Diane Willow
• Max/MSP and Hardware interfacing: Adam Rohksar and Max Abeles
• Composition/Orchestration: Christopher Hopkins, Alex Lubet
• Saxophone: Nancy Rassier Truchinski, Brian Grivna
Awards and recordings
• Next Step Grant, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council/McKnight Foundation 2013
• Artists on the Verge Fellowship, Northern Lights/Jerome Foundation 2011
• Artist Initiative Grant, Minnesota State Arts Board 2010
• All of This is Temporary, self release full-length solo album 2008
• Exception- winner, MN Spin Contest by mnartists.org, included on compilation 2008
• Unexpected-winner of MN Spin contest by mnartists.org 2008
• Speak ‘n’ Glitch- included on mnartists.org complilation 2005
• Space Felines – included on Crossfaded compilation of local electronic music 2003
Related Experience
• Software Developer, Life Time Fitness, 2014 – present
• Operations and Program Manager for Springboard for the Arts, an artist service organization, assisted over 200 new artist-led organizations through the fiscal sponsorship program 2004 – 2013
• Cultural Data Project, Minnesota Launch Task Force committee member, 2012-2013
• Public Art Committee member, Saint Paul Union Depot Restoration project, 2011
• Juror, Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art, 2008
• Grant selection panelist, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council (various) and Iowa Arts Council individual artist subpanel, 2007
• Curator, experimental music stage, CONvergence Science Fiction Convention, 2000 – 2011
• Sound Designer, Sound Board Operator, plus other tech assistance for local theatres including The Children’s Theatre Company, Park Square Theater, and the History Theater
• Assistant Recording Engineer for studios both locally and in London, England; experience with a wide range of genres: from techno to big band including assisting with location recordings for the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Recent and Selected Exhibitions and Performances
• Status Update, Burning Man Festival, 2013
• Observation Tape Deck, Installation, Foshay Tower Observation Deck, Northern Spark, 2012
• Status Update, Installation, Artists on the Verge exhibition, Soap Factory, 2012
• Art Shanty Projects artist, Tiny Shanty, Monsters Under the Bed, Elevator Shanty 2010, 2012, 2014
• Sound Crawl of the St. Paul Art Crawl, 2010
• Noisebridge Hacker Space Anniversary, San Francisco, 2009
• InFlux series, Rochester Art Center, 2009
• Juried performer and installation artist, Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art 2004 – 2009
• Juried performer for Best Fest circuit bending festival, Intermedia Arts, 2008
• Performance and cd release, Level_13 show, Altered Esthetics Gallery, 2008
• Panelist with Morton Subotnick, Gregory Taylor, Luke DuBois, and others, Spark Festival 2007
• Performance in electronic composer showcases, Kitty Cat Club, Minneapolis, MN 2005 – 2007
• Eyes Wide Open, sound collage, selected for Sonic Circuits international Festival of Electronic Music, Minneapolis, MN 2000
• Zurround, First Avenue’s main stage and 7th Street entry, Minneapolis, 1998