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ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

M. A. in Fine Art and Museum Science (University of Toronto) specializing in architectural history, historical museums and the decorative arts
Additional training in exhibit design, photography, editorial design, art media (watercolour, collage, printmaking), and video film production, at Ontario College of Art and Design, Victoria College of Art, Ryerson University, Sheridan College and Ground Zero Printmakers .

EXPERIENCE

Creative Director, DESIGNWORKS - Project manager and desktop publisher creating print and web publications for corporate, government, arts/culture and business clients.

Selected Clients and Projects:

• Greater Vancouver Regional District: program fact sheets, ads, brochures, displays and web sites
• British Columbia Assets and Land Corporation: corporate brochure, display and web site, fact sheets
• WestCo Technologies Inc: Sales Manual, web site, corporate identity, brochure
• The ARC Gallery, VictoriaBC: artist brochures, posters, portfolios, catalogues, art books
• Island Deaf and Hard of Hearing Centre: Brochure, poster, ads, annual report
• Nancy Ellen Designs, BCM Computer Consultants,
  
• Ground Zero Printmakers Studio: posters, art show invitations
• Lilia's Polynesian Dance Co: web site, promotion materials
  

Heritage and Museums Design and Planning - consultant in facility space planning, period room restorations, exhibits, promotions and publications, collections management; architectural historian, heritage photographer for heritage foundations, government ministries and agencies, museums, and city planning boards

• Ministry of Culture and Communications, Toronto: Museum and community heritage development planner
• Ontario Heritage Foundation: Heritage Projects; Exhibit Planning
  
• Toronto Historical Board: Architectural Historian and Heritage Planner
• City of Toronto Planning Board: Heritage Planner, Architectural Historian and Photo Documentation
• Pickering Museum Village: Curator and Planner
• Ministry of Natural Resources, Cochrane, Ont: Heritage Planner
• City of Sudbury: Heritage and Museum planner for Big Nickel Heritage Park

Art and Design Teaching
Interior Design specializing in Colour and Design Theory, Period Interiors and Furnishings and Product Knowledge
Architectural History Survey and Canadian Architecture
Architectural and Travel Photography
Desktop Publishing Programs
Digital Art
Applied Art

At Pacific Design Academy, Victoria BC; University of Toronto teaching assistant (Fine Art); Shaw Colleges of Business, Toronto, Ont; lecturer Continuing Studies, University of Victoria

Writing/Research

Books: Mills of Canada; the General Store: McGraw Hill Ryerson
Articles: This is Ontario Magazine; FORUM periodical of Association of Professional Heritage Consultants
Technical Manuals, Government publications; Reports and Studies

Photography specializing in architecture, art and travel; work published in books, educational and promotional literature and web sites. Exhibitions include series on Italian Streetscapes, Ontario Heritage and Victoria Architecture.

Multi-media art exhibiting collage, installation, digital art, mixed media, and photo art.