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Teaching, Lectures, Workshops & Curriculum development
July 2011 Family program Laguna Beach Art Museum
Lecturer on Noguchi and The East-West House: Noguchi's Childhood in Japan
and landscape collage art workshop leader
August 2010 Family program Norton Simon Museum
Lecturer on Noguchi and The East-West House: Noguchi's Childhood in Japan
and collage art workshop leader
August 2010 Workshop presenter
"Collaborative Art & Writing Projects"
Library Camp, Santa Clara County Office of Education
March 2010 Guest speaker
"Smarter Dummies"
Undergraduate and graduate illustration classes
The Academy of Art, San Francisco
March 2010 Keynote speaker and Workshop presenter
"Creating a Space for Everyone"
"Smarter Dummies"
Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Maryland Spring Conference
February 2010 Keynote speaker/guest author
Staff development day
Santa Clara County Office of Education Library Materials Fair
November 2009 Guest speaker
Children's Book illustration Class
Pixar, Emeryville, CA
November 2008 Keynote speaker
MAZZA Museum International Art of the Picture Book
Fall Conference
2003–2009 Presenter and conference coordinator assistant
Reading the World V– Reading the World XI (annual conference)
Celebrating Multicultural Literature for Children and Young Adults
Presenter, "Visual Literacy and Multicultural Picture Books"
Coordinator of illustrator panel discussions, and organizer of the auction exhibition
The School of Education, University of San Francisco
2004-2005 Curriculum writer/developer
Art in Action/Camp Galileo
November 2004 Keynote speaker
Evening with Children's Authors Fundraiser
Hiller Aviation Museum Family Connections
November 2004 Visting author/illustrator
Seattle public libraries
November 2004 Presenter
"Visual Literacy and Multicultural Picture Books"
California Reading Association Conference, Sacramento, CA
December 2003 Workshop leader
"Visual Literacy and Multicultural Picture Books"
Arts Education Funders Collaborative
Professional Development Workshop
April 2001 Workshop leader
"Visual Literacy: Seeing, Interpreting, Learning through Illustration"
Hostos Community College/CUNY, Bronx, NY
The Third Annual Multicultural Children's Literature Festival
April 2001 Keynote speaker
"The Call of Stories: The Allure of Narrative for Children and Young Adults"
University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Library & Information Studies
Biennial Conference
June 2000 Keynote speaker
"(Re)Search and Source in Multicultural Picture Books"
Brooklyn Public School Librarians Inservice conference
Grand Army Plaza Auditorium, Brooklyn, NY
September 1999 Lecturer
"The Making of Elizabeti's Doll"
Brooklyn Museum of Art/African Galleries
9/95–6/97 Adjunct Professor
Communication Design/Typography
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
9/90–6/91 Art Instructor
Letterpress Printing
Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
9/78–6/84 Art Instructor
Willamette Middle School, West Linn, OR
Instruction including a wide scope of art electives. District art curriculum developer.
Talented and Gifted (TAG) program instructor
winter/spring 1982 Adjunct Graduate School of Education Instructor
"Art in the Elementary Classroom"
Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR