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Education
2012 Master of Education, Wayland Baptist University
2011 Teacher Certification, Wayland Baptist University
2006 Master of Fine Arts, Texas Tech University
Primary Studio: Sculpture Secondary: Printmaking
2000 Bachelor of Science, Wayland Baptist University
Major: Biology Minor: Chemistry
2000 Firefighter and EMT Certification, Amarillo College 8th Annual Firefighter training school
Teaching Experience
2008 – 2012 Physics/Chemistry Teacher, Estacado High School
Conceptual Physics – Lecture and Laboratory
Chemistry – Lecture and Laboratory
Founder, Sponsor, and Coach of the Estacado Chess Club
2010 – 2012 Chess Instructor, Hummingbird Music Camp Ages 8-14 Novice/Intermediate
Lubbock, TX
Los Alamos, NM
2007 – 2008 Adjunct Instructor, Texas Tech University
Intro to Interior Design: Foundations 2D/3D Design
Interiors III – Advanced Rendering: Google Sketch-Up/Traditional Art Appreciation – Humanities/Multicultural Course
2006 – 2007 Adjunct Instructor, Texas Tech University
Art Appreciation – Humanities/Multicultural Course Design II, 3-D Design – Art Core: Foundations
2003-2006 Teacher of Record, Texas Tech University
Introduction to Mixed Media – Advanced Sculpture Introduction to Metal Fabrication – Advanced Sculpture Design II, 3-D Design – Art Core: Foundations
Introduction to Printmaking – Printmaking
2001-2009 “Super Saturdays” Community Youth Education Program: Ideal for Students – The Science of Art
Ages 5-8 and Ages 9-12
2003-2006 “Shake Hands with Your Future” Summer Camp:
Ideal for students – Architecture, Practice and Application Ages 7-11 and Ages 12-17
Awards - Service
2012 Invited Jury Reviewer for ISEA2012 Albuquerque: Machine Wilderness, the 18th International Symposium on Electronic Art
2011 Artist Residency: The Button Project: Caritas Village: Memphis, Tennessee
2011 Artist Residency: Outdoor Sculpture Commission: Earthbound Moon Site: Chicago, Illinois
2011 Published Finalist for Aesthetica Magazine’s Creative Works Competition
2010 Visiting Artist Residency: Outdoor Sculpture, and Solo Exhibition , Northern State University: Aberdeen, South Dakota
2010 Art work selected for SANOFI’s Library Conference and Exhibition: Montpellier, France
2010 Lubbock Independent School District Teacher of the Year Nominee
2009 Review and Image - Sculpture Magazine: International Sculpture Center: January/February. Written by Jane Durrell
2008 Honorable Mention: Texas National 2008 – The Art Center at The Old Opera House , Juror: Roger Shimomura: Nacogdoches, Texas
2008 Centennial Exhibitions Committee member, curator, and catalogue director: Centennial Celebration of Lubbock, Texas
Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts - LHUCA
2008 Commission: Lubbock Avalanche Journal Newspaper Box Exhibition, Tornado Gallery: Lubbock, Texas
2008 Art Donation: 5” x 7” Texas Tech School of Art Scholarship Fundraiser Texas Tech University: Lubbock, Texas
2008 Art Donation: Boots & Pearls Benefit Gala benefiting the UMC Foundation and the Treasured Hearts Project
2008 Stray Dog Art Project: Art Clinic for people engaged in alcohol and drug recovery 17 weekly meetings and Exhibition - Stray Dog Gallery: Lubbock, Texas
2007 Best of Show: Wheels, National Juried Show. Gallery North: Bloomington, Indiana
2007 Commission: Dragonfly Sculpture – Lubbock Arts Alliance
2003 Chancellors Scholarship Award: School of Art: Texas Tech University
2002 Merit Scholarship Award: 16th Juried Art Student Competition , Juror: Marci Inman, Irving Arts Center
Solo Exhibitions
2010 Withdrawn – Rearranged Excess: Isaac Lincoln Gallery, Northern State University Aberdeen, South Dakota
2009 Oh. Louise Underwood Center for the Arts – LHUCA: Lubbock, Texas 2007 Rowd, Solo Exhibition. Art Depot Gallery: Lubbock, Texas
2006 The Media, The Shredder, The Participant, MFA Solo Exhibition. Icehouse
Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts: Lubbock, Texas
2003 2 hp motor, Solo Exhibition, Space 1110: Lubbock, Texas
Juried Exhibitions
2011 Tapped 2, International Juried Exhibition. Manifest Creative Research Gallery: Cincinnati, Ohio
2011 Third Coast National, National Juried Exhibition. K Space Contemporary: Corpus Christi, Texas
2011 Intimate: Small Works, National Juried Exhibition. Brooklyn Artists Gym: Brooklyn, New York
2011 Recontextualizing the Found Object, International Juried Exhibition Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock Pennsylvania
2011 EXPO 2011, State-wide Juried Exhibition. 500X Gallery: Dallas, Texas
2010 Eye of the Beholder: The Art of the Found Object, National Juried Exhibition.
Maryland Federation of Art: Annapolis, Maryland
2010 Texas National 2010, National Juried Exhibition. The Art Center: Nacogdoches, Texas
2010 RE: (rebound, recycled, repurposed, reused), National Juried Exhibition. Abecedarian Gallery: Denver, Colorado
2009 Le Livre est une Oeuvre D’Art, International Juried Exhibition. Art Vitam
Galerie Europ’Art : Aigues Mortes, France Juror: Sophie Blachet
2009 Third Coast National, National Juried Exhibition. K Space Contemporary: Corpus Christi, Texas
2009 Alchemy: Object Transformed, National Juried Exhibition. Hollingsworth Gallery: Palm Coast, Florida
2009 Texas National 2009, National Juried Exhibition. The Art Center: Nacogdoches, Texas
2009 Image and Word, National Juried Exhibition: The Art Center: Highland Park, Illinois
2008 Projections: A Survey of Wall-based Sculpture, International Juried Exhibition.
Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center: Cincinnati, Ohio
2008 Translations – Art inspired by the written word, National Juried Exhibition Fine Arts Gallery: Victoria College, Victoria, Texas
2008 Juried Art Show Rodeo, National Juried Exhibition: Gilrose Studios: Wichita Falls, Texas
2008 Texas National 2008, National Juried Exhibition. The Art Center: Nacogdoches, Texas
2007 16th Annual Juried Art Competition, National Juried Exhibition. Breckenridge Fine Arts Center: Breckenridge, Texas
2007 Metal Arts 2007, National Juried Exhibition. Ellen Noel Art Museum: Odessa, Texas
2007 Wheels, National Juried Exhibition. Gallery North: Bloomington, Indiana
2007 Texas National 2007, National Juried Exhibition. The Art Center: Nacogdoches, Texas
Group Exhibitions
2011 Obsessive Worlds, Curated Group Exhibition. Art Museum of Southeast Texas: Beaumont, TX
also Alexandria Museum of Art: Alexandria, Louisiana
also Texas A&M Visual Arts Committee Gallery: College Station, Texas
also Stephen F. Austin Art Gallery: Nacogdoches, Texas
2011 PlexArt TextArt, Group Exhibition. The Mockbee: Cincinnati, Ohio
2011 Co: Modify, Culture Laboratory, Select Group Exhibition. Nave Museum: Victoria, Texas
2011 Land Portrait, Culture Laboratory, Select Group Exhibition. UTSA Satellite Space, Blue Star
Art Complex: San Antonio, TX
2011 A World Primer, Earthbound Moon, Select Group Exhibition. WaterSpace North: Slaton, TX
2011 Response 2, Culture Laboratory, Select Group Exhibition. Box 13 Art Space: Houston, Texas
also Olive Tjaden Gallery, Cornell Univ: Ithaca, NY
Collaboration with Noah Simblist – artist, writer, curator, and prof. at SMU, Dallas, TX
2011 Unpacking Access, RJP Nomadic Gallery. Texas Biennial Invited Participating Organization:
Performance/Installation at Pump Project and Trailer Space Records: Austin, Texas
2011 Response, Culture Laboratory, Select Group Exhibition. Brazos Gallery, Richland College:
Dallas, Texas Collaboration with Ben Lewis of Art Safari, London
2011 A World Primer, Earthbound Moon, Select Group Exhibition. WaterSpace North: Slaton, TX
also North American Art Gallery: McAllen, Texas
2010 No Rhyme or Reason, Select Group Exhibition. Ro2 Art Group Show: Dallas, Texas
2010 DADA, Dallas Arts Dealer Association, Select Group Exhibition. Mary Thomas Art Gallery: Dragon Street: Dallas, Texas
2010 Persistent Breach, Select Group Exhibition. Shirley Pogue Art Gallery: East Central University: Ada, Oklahoma
2009 Mercurial Imagination, Select Group Exhibition: Ira M. Taylor Memorial Art Gallery: Hardin Simmons University: Abilene, Texas
2009 So Say We All, Sort Of... Culture Laboratory, Select Group Exhibition Texas State University: San Marcos, Texas
2009 No. 3 – What you do after No.2, Ryder Jon Piotrs Nomadic Gallery in Conjunction with Waypoint Gallery: Marfa, Texas
2008 Innovation by Limitation, Group Exhibition: Nau Haus Gallery: Houston, Texas
2008 No. 2 – At your doorstep, Ryder Jon Piotrs Nomadic Gallery in Conjunction with Waypoint Gallery: Marfa, Texas
2008 The Man Show, Group Exhibition, Hard Tops Art Gallery: Lubbock, Texas
2008 U - Turn, Ryder Jon Piotrs Nomadic Gallery: San Antonio Contemporary Art Month: San Antonio, Texas
2008 40th Anniversary Lubbock Area School of Art Alumni Exhibition, School of Art: Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
2008 The New Wave, Curated Group Exhibition in Conjunction with the Centennial Celebration of Art in Lubbock, LHUCA, Lubbock, Texas
2008 Door to Door, Ryder Jon Piotrs Nomadic Gallery: Slaton Arts on the Square, Slaton, Texas
2008 On the Road Again, Ryder Jon Piotrs Nomadic Gallery: San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas
2008 Monochrome: The Study of Orange, Fain Fine Arts Center Midwestern State University: Wichita Falls, Texas
2007 Drive-In Theatre, Ryder Jon Piotrs Nomadic Gallery: Houston, Texas
2007 Orange and Blue: Studies in Monochrome, Nancy Fyfe Cardozer Gallery , The University of Texas of the Permian Basin: Odessa, Texas
2007 Maiden Voyage, Ryder Jon Piotrs Nomadic Gallery: Marfa, Texas
2007 Turn the Crank, Art Depot Annex, Collaborative Installation/Performance, Lubbock, Texas
2007 Bombastic Interpretations, Collaborative Installation. Art Depot Annex: Lubbock, Texas
2006 Grudge Match: Bastards of Printmaking Vs. Dirty Printmakers, Slingshot Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin
2006 Texas Tech Annual Faculty Exhibition. Landmark Arts. Texas Tech University: Lubbock, Texas
2006 Response, Collaborative Exhibition. Art Depot Gallery: Lubbock, Texas
2006 Desolate Horizons, Curated Exhibition. aAlice! Gallery: Kansas City, Missouri
2006 Monochrome: The Study of Orange, Curated Exhibition. LHUCA Lubbock, Texas
2005 Occurrence, Result, Outcome, Collaborative Installation, Icehouse
Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts: Lubbock, Texas
2005 Open House and Reception, Texas Tech Collaborative Exhibition: Marfa, Texas
2005 Way out West, Williams Tower Exhibition: Curator: Sally Sprout Houston, Texas
2005 Ohhhhh, Five Man Productions, Space 1110: Lubbock, Texas
2005 Whether Underground, Collaborative Installation, Main Street Space: Lubbock, Texas
2005 Big Ass Show, Tree Grace Mills Gallery: Lubbock, Texas
2004 Sculptural Entourage, Texas Sculpture Network, TTU Student Chapter, Tree Grace Mills Gallery: Lubbock, Texas
2004 The School of Art at Texas Tech University, MFA Group Exhibition, Lowell Collins Gallery: Houston, Texas
2004 Open House and Reception, Texas Tech Collaborative Exhibition: Marfa, Texas
2003 Anything Art, Texas Tech University 16th Annual Student Competition, Marci Inman: Gallery director and Curator, Irving Arts Center
2003 Summation, Collaborative Exhibition: Lubbock, Texas
2003 Saviors, Five Man Productions, Wheeler Brother's Studios: Lubbock, Texas
2002 Ulterior Motifs III, Wheeler Brother's Studios: Lubbock, Texas
Performances
2011 Butterfly Song, Vocal Reading with Wade Park’s Band: Studio Project: Lubbock, Texas
2009 A Two Man Romance, Dual reading. Chad Plunket and Jonathan Whitfill
2009 Oh Exhibition performances, LHUCA: Lubbock, Texas
2008 Just one page – Only one page, Semi-random vertical reading. Ryder Jon Piotrs Nomadic Gallery
in Conjunction with Waypoint Gallery Marfa, Texas
2007 Performance Art Night, Performance and video art, sound, and music. WaterSpace North:
Slaton, Texas
2007 Engine, Engine, Engine, Performance – Random vertical reading with guitar accompaniment.
Bohemian Art Show. J & B Coffee, Lubbock, Texas
2006 Machismo: Minute by Minute. Performance. Genderland. Louise Hopkins Underwood Center:
Lubbock, Texas
2006 Yes/No, Performance. Icehouse. Louise Hopkins Underwood Center Lubbock, Texas
2005 The Gallon Challenge – Milk + Stomach, Performance. Sara Waters' Studios Slaton, Texas
2005 Wrapping Chris Federick, Collaborative Performance. Christopher's: Marfa, Texas
2005 The Media. The Shredder. The Participant, Installation/Performance. Alternative Space, Texas
Tech University: Lubbock, Texas
2004 Morse Code Alphabet Referee, Performance. "The Erotic Incarnations of Princess Plum."
Five Man Productions. Space 1110 Lubbock, Texas
2003 Red Tool Box Piece, Ambulatory Performance. Month of October. Lubbock, Marfa, Plainview,
Tulia, Amarillo: Texas
2003 Word, Installation/Performance. Alternative Space, Texas Tech University Lubbock, Texas
2003 Ogerd Al Eneh, Performance. Quad Area, Texas Tech University Lubbock, Texas
Artist Groups
Culture Laboratory http://culturelaboratory.wordpress.com/
http://www.culturelaboratory.us/
Ryder Jon Piotrs Nomadic Gallery http://ryderjonpiotrs.wordpress.com/
Earthbound Moon http://www.earthboundmoon.com/
The Button Project http://thebuttonprojectblog.blogspot.com/