EDUCATION
MFA (Master of Fine Art) University of South Florida 2010
BFA (Bachelor of Fine Art) Minnesota State University 2005
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Full Time Appointments
- Instructor New Media Communications 2016-Present , Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
-Visiting Instructor and Digital Arts Coordinator 2013-2016, Florida International University, Miami, FL
Part-time Positions
-Linn Benton Community College, Albany, OR Adjunct Professor 2016
-Miami International University, Miami, FL -Adjunct Professor 2011-2015
-Miami Dade College, Miami, FL -Adjunct Professor 2011 & 2016
-Broward College, Davie, FL -Adjunct Professor 2010
-Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, FL- Instructor 2010-2015
-University of South Florida –Teaching Graduate Assistant 2008-10
Courses Taught
Digital Foundations- Computer Art, Digital Color Theory, Intro Digital Media, Image Manipulation, Experimental Photography, New Media Visualization, Applied Media Aesthetics
Video & Sound- Video Art (Intro, Intermediate, Advanced), Time-Based Media, Video for Photography, Preproduction, Field Production, Post Production, Compositing and Digital Effects, Documentary, Sound Design (Intro & Intermediate)
Animation and Digital Fabrication- Intro Animation, Foundations of Motion Design, 2D Animation, Experimental Animation, Digital Sculpture & Prototypes, Experimental Virtual Worlds
Art Foundations and General Education-2D Design, 3D Design, Intro Drawing, Intro-Advanced Ceramics, Art Appreciation, Cinema Appreciation
ACADEMIC SERVICE & GRANTS
Curriculum Development
-Curriculum Committee Service (OSU) 2016-Present: I currently serve as a collaborative member on the production units curriculum team and actively create, delete, update departmental courses and degree structure at Oregon State University.
-Degree and Course Creation (FIU) 2014-2016:
Video, Animation, and Digital Art BFA & MFA
Graphic Design BFA & MFA
Object Design MFA
Created a total of 45 new courses for the Art and Art History Department covering curriculum that would create innovative research, interdisciplinary experiments and ensure student success upon graduation
Area Coordination
Digital Arts Hub (FIU) 2013-2016-Digital Arts scheduling of classes, hiring of part-time faculty and equipment oversight.
Study Abroad Bauhaus Workshop (FIU) 2016-Program Co-Director for three-week excursion to Berlin & Dessau, Germany and Basel, Switzerland in Summer 2016. Students participated in an intense one-week workshop at the Bauhaus Campus in Dessau and visit several contemporary art and architectural locations in Berlin and Basel.
NAB Scholar Internship in Las Vegas 2016 & 2017- Chaperone students to the National Association of Broadcasting Conference as they intern in production and public relations.
Grants
2018- Innovation Grant (Co-writer) $10,000 (OSU)
2017- Innovation Grant $10,000 (OSU)
2016- Innovation Grant $10.000 (OSU)
2015-Technology Fee Grant $125,000 (FIU)
2014-Technology Fee Grant $75,000 (FIU)
2013-Technology Fee Grant (Co-writer) $58,000 (FIU)
Committees
-Student Achievement Committee in New Media Communications (OSU) 2018
-Search Committee Assistant Professor in Graphic Design (OSU)2016
-BFA Curriculum Committee (OSU) 2016-17
-Foundations Curriculum Committee (FIU) 2014-2016
Memberships
C.A.A. College Art Association
N.M.C. New Media Caucus
N.A.B. National Association of Broadcasting
A.I.G.A The Professional Association for Design
SPECIALIZED SKILLS
Software
Adobe:Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere, Audition, After Effects, Animate, Character Animator, Dreamweaver & Muse
AutodeskMaya & Mudbox
Maxon Cinema 4D
Unity
Processing
Avid Final Cut & Pro Tools
Dragonframe
Technology Based Fabrication Equipment and Shop Experience
3D Printing: Makerbot Generation 2-5, mini and Z18, Formlabs resin based printer, Powder based printing
Laser cutter
3D 5 axis CNC
Electric Ceramic Kilns
*I am also have experience in using general shop tools such as band saw, jig saw, skill saw, planer, jointer, table saw
Materials
-Long history with sculpture, fibers and ceramics. Having a large range of materials knowledge and set design experience I assist students in making preproduction sets, puppets, costumes and sculptural objects for performance and installation works of art. I also have ten years of experience in ceramics from hand building large sculptures to extensive slip casting.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT/ART DIRECTION/CURATION
Founder and Project Manager, R.A.D.S. Lab (Research for Art, Design and Science), Corvallis, OR 2019
Curator, Body Marks, Fairbanks Gallery of Art, Corvallis, OR 2019
Owner and Director, Brite Neon (Design Studio), Albany, OR 2017-Present
Co-Director (Exhibition Space), Woodshop Projects Exhibition Space, Corvallis, OR 2016-Present
Project Manager- Glitter Chariot, Art Basel, Miami, FL 2013
Production Designer- Soul Clap Music Video"Soulclapping" Sponsored by Scion, Miami, FL 2013
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
Harold Arts, Chesterhill, OH August 2012
Elsewhere, Greensboro, NC May 2013
EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
2018
Serious Business, Tropical Contemporary, Eugene, OR
Bedtime Stories, LUMP Projects, Raleigh, NC
Broadcast II, Killjoy Projects, Portland, OR (screening)
2017
Wake Up! (solo), Woodshop Projects, Corvallis OR
Experiments in Story, Fairbanks Gallery, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
G-Litter CEI Artworks Gallery Corvallis, OR
2016
Intersectionality, MOCA, Miami, FL
2016 All Florida Invitational, Boca Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
The Teeth Beneath My Feet (solo), Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, FL
Look Alive! L.O.G., Chapel Hill, NC
2015
Episode 1: Look alive!, L.O.G., Durham, NC
Collabo 5, Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL
No Fear, Space 1026, Philadelpia, PA
Plus Art Shop II, 99cent Plus, Brooklyn, New York
Cosmic Horizons, Prism Pipe, Pehrspace, Los Angeles, CA screening
2014
Destineez Child Presents, Traysh, Knockdown Center, Flushing, NY
Acid Reflux, Projects Space, Ft. Lauderdale
Poor Happy, Swampspace Mimi, FL
Outside the Box, Whitespace, West Palm Beach, FL
Good Juice, Atlanta Underground Film Festival, Atlanta GA screening
Good Juice, Big Mini Media Festival, Spike Lee Screening Room, Brooklyn, NY screening
2013
Waiting World, Chartier Gallery, Derby, CT screening
AV Show, Swampspace, Miami FL
Abaracadabara! Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood FL
2012
The Accident, Optic Nerve 14, MOCA, De la Cruz Collection, Miami, FL, BIG Screen Plaza, NYC
Destineez Child Presents, Special Screening DC!! Three Walls, Chicago, IL screening
Destineez Child Presents, Alien Invasion!, Miami, FL
Destineez Child Presents, Kuntry Store, Harold Arts, Chesterhill, OH
Everything is Going to be Fine!, Wynwood Exhibition Center, Miami, FL
Destineez Child Presents, Strollers!,Dependant Art Fair, Amory Arts Week, Lower East Side, NYC
Double Take, Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL
2011
Humortorium, Sailboat Bend Gallery, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Add Juncture, Sailboat Bend Gallery, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
David Castillo Open, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL
Destineez Child Presents, The Waiting Room, New Capitol, Chicago, IL
Sickly Sweet, Tampa, FL
2x4, The Laundromat, Brooklyn, NY
Faculty Show, Broward College Gallery, Davie, FL
2010
Destineez Child Presents, #rank Miami, Seven Art Fair - Ed Winkleman Gallery, Miami Art Basel, FL
Miami Art Salon, 810 Projects, Miami FL
Wanna Pickle?, Tempest Projects, Tampa, FL
Misc! Animation and Video, New York Studio Gallery, NYC, NY
ROUSE, Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL
Destineez Child Presents, SITEfest 2010, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY
Stills Show, 700 IS Film and Video Festival, 5 Venue Tour including CIA Center of Icelandic Art, Iceland
2009
Digi-A-Go Go!, Wynwood Arts District, Art Basel Miami 2009
You Become Your Thoughts, PUNCH Gallery, Seattle, WA
10X10, Lake Worth Storage, Lake Worth, FL
5X5 Works on Paper, [5] Art Gallery, Tampa, FL
Florida Consortium of Art Schools 2009 Juried Exhibition, FSU Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL, Juror: Libby Lumpkin (catalogue)
Showtel, Hotel Biba, West Palm Beach, FL (catalogue)
33rd Annual Student Juried Show, Centre Gallery, Tampa, FL *Best In Show*
Blow Up!, Shiftspace Gallery, Wichita, KS
Dirty Show, Bert’s Warehouse Theatre, Detroit, MI
Peanut Got Squished Too Hard, William and Nancy Oliver Gallery, Tampa, FL (solo)
2008
Gentrification…and Other Notes on Trailer Trash, William and Nancy Oliver Gallery, Tampa, FL
Covered in Blood, Center Gallery, Tampa, FL
Paris Exhibition, Center Gallery, Tampa, FL
32nd Annual Student Juried Show, Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL (Juried by Anne Pasternak)
What a Dick!!, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL
BIBLIOGRAPHY/PRESS/BLOGS
2018
Tooling Around http://www.eugenecontemporaryart.com/tooling-around-review-serious-business-tropical/
2016
ARTFCITY Gif of the Day http://artfcity.com/2015/06/17/gif-of-the-day-carmen-tiffany/
Elements and Principles of 4D Art and Design_Ellen Mueller http://www.ecampus.com/elements-principles-4d-art-design-1st/bk/9780190225148
2015
IMDB Good Juice http://www.imdb.com/name/nm6736565/
2014
Videofocus Bienniel https://issuu.com/stigmart10review/docs/stigmart_videofocus_winter_ed
Miami Rail Review of Poor Happy http://miamirail.org/52-reviews/poor-happy-kelly-boehmer-andrew-nigon-and-carmen-tiffany/
2013
Destineez Child featured in essay $, written by David B. Smith Feature Issue 91, October 3rd-Nov. 6thhttp://culturehall.com/feature_issues.html?no=91
2012
Destineez Child featured in Jerry Saltz review in New York Times for Dependant Art Fair, Armory Arts Week 2012
Destineez Child featured in Art Fag City review of Dependant Art Fair, Armory Arts Week 2012
2011
Featured in artblogNYC.com
Bill Powhida Reviews Destineez Child for Seven Art Fair event with Ed Winkleman Gallery #rank Miami! http://powhida.tumblr.com/page/2
Special Guest Interview by Thomas Seely, Art Uncovered, breakthroughradio.com, New York, NY
2009
Sjostrom, Jan. “Surreal and Fantastical,” Palm Beach Daily News, Friday, April 24th, 2009.
Levy, Barbara Ann. “Showtel 2009 in West Palm Beach, FL: Art as Entertainment,” WPB/NYC And Anything Else.
April 26th, 2009. http://wpbartcritic.blogspot.com/
Helander, Bruce. “Checking Out Who’s Checking In: Showtel 7,” Post Show Review June 2009.
VISITING LECTURER /AWARDS
2010- Recipient of Independent Graduate Research Grants from the University of South Florida
-Graduate Assistantship, University of South Florida, 2007 to 2010
-Independent Travel Grant, University of South Florida for Destineez Child project in New York
2009-Nancy Oliver Memorial Fund (Grand reward for Best in Showat the student juried show at USF.)
2008-Recipient of Compass Award Scholarship for USF study abroad in Paris, France
2006-Guest Artist Lecturer, Minnesota State University, Ceramics Department
2005-Commission for Public Mural, Self Enhancement Institute, Portland OR
2004-Mark Lowe Endowment Scholarship from Minnesota State University for undergraduate research.
INTERNSHIPS/COLLECTIVES
Supertest Artist Organization, Tampa, FL (August - Dec. 2009)
-Assist with operations of organization such as running errands, e-mailing, completing clerical tasks
Flight 19 Gallery and Project Space, Tampa, FL(August - Dec. 2008)
-Supervising during gallery hours and speaking with visitors about work shown in space
Destineez ChildMiami, FL/ New York, NY 2009-2016
-Videographer and collaborative art producer.
-In charge of research for grants and project proposal organization.
MFAOGraduate Student Run Organization, USF Tampa, FL 2007-2010
-Assisted with several activities such as graduate student exhibitions and the annual graduate student run USF Undergraduate International Juried Show.
STUDY ABROAD
American International UniversityFlorence, Italy, 2005
Undergraduate study abroad student with emphasis in drawing and painting. (Spring semester 2005)
University of South FloridaParis, France, 2010
Graduate study abroad student with focus on four-week independent directed study. (June of 2008)