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CURTIS SINGMASTER CV
- 1. CURTIS SINGMASTER 1109 MercerAve, Ojai CA 93023 / 860-318-1978 / singmastercurtis@gmail.com / curtissingmaster.com Graduate, Undergraduate & High School - Level Teaching Experience • Program & Curriculum Development • Working Artist • Guest Critic • Creative Problem Solver EDUCATION RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN / Providence, RI / 2011 Master of Fine Arts, Sculpture - Honors - J. Stahl-Webber Scholarship, S.L.Y Herman Scholarship BROWN UNIVERSITY / Providence, RI / 2011 Collegiate Teaching Certificate UNIVERSITY OF DENVER / Denver, CO / 2002 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Sculpture - Honors INSTITUTO ALLENDE / San Miguel, Mexico / 1998 Studied as a silversmith, jeweler, and printmaker TEACHING EXPERIENCE BESANT HILL SCHOOL / Ojai, CA / 2011 – Present Visual Arts Department Chair – Teacher • Design and implement a progressive art curriculum for students looking to pursue the visual arts in college • Teach Advanced Portfolio, Drawing/Painting, Printmaking, and Sculpture • Foster collaboration and peer feedback amongst the visual arts faculty • Establish working relationships with local galleries and art groups to provide students with real world art experiences. • Manage the visual arts budget, the visual arts facilities, including the ceramics studio • Work with the media team to help promote Besant Hill Schoolʼs visual arts program RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN / Providence, RI / 2009 - 2011 Adjunct Faculty – Sculpture / Graduate Assistant • Created and taught a sculpture class on found objects, material language, and the use of context for graduate and undergraduate levels • Worked for two years as a graduate assistant in the undergraduate sculpture department. Helped facilitate critiques, met with students individually to discuss work, and created projects and presentations to implement and critique when needed THE FENN SCHOOL / Concord, MA / 2008 – 2009 Teacher – Ceramics • Created and taught classes on ceramic wheel throwing and hand building techniques
- 2. THE SALISBURY SCHOOL/ Salisbury, CT / 2004 – 2008 Teacher – Sculpture, Drawing, Painting, Printmaking • Designed, implemented, and taught Sculpture, Drawing, Painting, and Printmaking curriculum for the Fine Arts department • Managed departmental budget, material orders, and class activities • Advised and directed junior and senior students interested in applying to college art programs, this included portfolio development • Awarded faculty enrichment grant for curriculum development, course enhancement, and professional activities THE STRATTON MOUNTAIN SCHOOL / Stratton, VT / 2003-2004 Teacher – Drawing, Painting • Developed, instituted, and taught the schools Fine Arts program (draw/paint) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Jaxson Design Works /Parker, CO/2002 Artist/Custom Metal Fabricator • University of Denver /Denver, CO/2000-01 Sculpture Lab Monitor • Laradon School /Denver, CO/2003 Therapeutic Crisis Intervention • Peragrine River Outfitters /CO-AZ/1997-2000 Whitewater Rafting Guide (Grand Canyon) TEACHING COMPETENCIES & INTERESTS Mixed Media Sculpture•Material Language•Found Object Use•Drawing•Installation•Public Sculpture•Context (physical and historical)•Outdoor Sculpture•Kinetic•Critique•Printmaking Painting•Ceramics SELECTED SKILLS 3D: Metal Work•Wood Work•Mold Making•Stone Carving•Fiberglass/Resins•Ceramics Plaster•Weaving•Finishing•Ceramics•Fibers•Mixed Media•Upholstery•Jewelry 2D: Drawing/Painting Pencil/Charcoal/Pen•Acrylic/Oils•Collage•Mixed Media Printmaking Woodblock•Linoleum•Etching EXHIBITION HISTORY Selected Exhibitions (Solo *) 2015 Site:Brooklyn “Transforming: Street Objects from Your Street to Main Street” NY (Juried) 2013 *Booklyn Artist Alliance “It Is What It Is”, a book on tour from NY NY to Los Angeles CA 2012 *Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI (Juried) 2012 Vicinity, Providence, RI (Juried) 2011 Sheffield International Artistʼs Book Prize, Sheffield, United Kingdom 2011 Camera Club of New York Photo Book Exhibition, New York, NY 2011 Art In The Park, Worcester, MA (Juried) 2011 Rapture Proof, New York, NY 2011 Break It Down, Providence, RI (Juried) 2010 Leaving Room, Providence, RI (Juried) 2010 Rhode Island School of Design Sculpture Biennial, Providence, RI 2010 Rhode Island School of Design Expose, Providence, RI (Juried) 2010 Agriculture Encounters Sculpture, Boston, MA (Juried) 2010 Boston Young Contemporaries Exhibition, Boston, MA (Juried) 2011 Black Sheep Show, Providence, RI (Juried) 2008 *Tremaine Gallery, “Current Work”, Salisbury, CT 2006 Tremaine Gallery, “Green”, Salisbury, CT 2002 Lakewood Cultural Center, “Collegiate Show”, Denver, CO (Juried)
- 3. 2002 Myhren Gallery,“Senior BFA Show”, Denver, CO 2002 Core Gallery, “DU Student Show”, Denver, CO (Juried) 2002 The Art Guild Inc. Denver, CO (Juried) 2002 Spark Gallery, Denver, CO (Juried) 2002 Pirate Gallery, “The Outsiderʼs Show”, Denver, CO (Juried) 2001 The Art Guild Inc. Denver, CO (Juried) 2001 DUʼs School of Art, “Student Exhibition”, Denver, CO (Juried) AWARDS / FELLOWSHIPS / RESIDENCIES 2010 J. Stahl-Webber Scholarship, Rhode Island School of Design 2009-10 S.L.Y Herman Scholarship, Rhode Island School of Design 2010 Boston Young Contemporaries Award 2010 Art in the Open: Philadelphia. Selected artist for the four-day outdoor art event 2010 Finalist Sitings Competition, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design 2008 Art Education Summer Scholarship, Peters Valley Craft Center 2005 Salisbury Faculty Enrichment Grant 2005 Vermont Studio Center 2004 Vermont Studio Center 2002 Viewers Choice Award, Lakewood Cultural Center COLLECTIONS / PRESS •Salisbury School, Salisbury CT •Office of the President, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 2010 Agriculture Encounters Sculpture Review. “Art Blossoms on the Farm” Boston Globe by Cate McQuaid 2010 “Boston Young Contemporaries”(Review) The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research by Greg Cook 2010 Black Sheep Projects Review. “RISD Goes Extra Curricular” Hyperallergic by Liz Hall 2001 “Deconstruction, Construction”, Foothills Art Journal