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Resumé
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M.A.
M.F.A
B.F.A. Magna Cum Laude
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Department
of Art and Art History, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, 2007
Department of Fiber, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI,
1996
Fiber Art & Textile Design, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah,
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Professional Experience: |
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AromaPediatric, LLC
De Anza College
San Jose State University
Works Art and Performance Gallery
Euphrat Museum
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Director,
Art & Design, San Diego, CA, 2008 - present
Lecturer, Creative Arts and International Studies Divisions (Art
History), Cupertino, CA, 2006 - present
Lecturer, Department of Spatial Art (Textiles and Design), San Jose,
CA, 2004 - 2005
Programming Director, San Jose, CA, 2006 - 2008
Independent Curator and Programming Committee Member, Cupertino, CA, 2004 - present |
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| Grants and Awards: |
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de Young Museum
CSU Research Competition
San Jose State University
Arts Council Silicon Valley
Savannah College of Art and Design
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Artist in Residence, San Francisco, CA, January 2008
First Place, Graduate Thesis Research in Humanities and Letters
Representing San Jose State University, May 2007
Scholarship, Art History, School of Art and Design, June 2006
Applied Materials Grant: Artistic and Program Excellence for “Calling
into the Void” exhibition, Works/San Jose, April 2005
Rene Nellings Whelan Scholarship for academic excellence, Savannah,
GA, 1990 - 1994
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| Selected Lectures: |
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| Historians
of Islamic Art Assn.
Textile Society of America
University of San Francisco
San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles
Monterey Peninsula College
Mills College
San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles
San Jose State University
ArtPeople Gallery
Euphrat Museum
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"Madness
and Ecstasy in Islamic Menswear", forthcoming publication, Islamica
Erotica, 2011
Seminar, "On the Erotic and Sensuous in Islamic Art", CAA Annual
Conference, Los Angeles, CA, 2009
"Safavid Figural Silks and the Display of Identity" (Published
2008) Biennial Symposium: “Textiles as Cultural Expressions”
Honolulu, HI, 2008
Retrospective lecture on studio textiles, "Women in Art" seminar
San Francisco, CA, 2007
First Friday Lecture, "Chains: Lover and Beloved in Persian Poetry",
San Jose, CA, 2007
Retrospective lecture on studio textiles, Monterey, CA, 2007
Historical Textile lecture, Islamic Seminar, Oakland, CA, 2007
"Permanent Madness" series (2 lectures and performance),
San Jose, CA, 2006 - 2007
Historical Textile Lecture, "Wrapped up" (Islamic Textiles)
Historical Textile Lecture, "Animedallion" (Central Asian Textiles)
San Jose, CA, 2005 and 2006
Poetry Reading and Gallery Lecture, "It's Love: The poetry of Rumi"
San Francisco, CA, 2005
Curatorial Lecture, "Shared Passions", Cupertino, CA,
2005
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Selected Exhibitions:
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SomArts Cultural Center
Palos Verdes Art Center
de Young Museum
San Jose Museum of Art
Euphrat Museum
San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles
Works/San Jose
Euphrat Museum
Oliver Art Center
Intersection Gallery
Gallery 510
Works/San Jose
Euphrat Museum
Cranbrook Art Museum
Arab Cultural Center
Kensington Art Center
Ann Arbor Art Center
Kansas City Artists Coalition
Paint Creek Center for the Arts
Network Gallery
Textile Art Centre
Detroit Institute of Art
Cranbrook Art Museum
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"East
of the West" - Installation with Public Participation,
San Francisco, CA, 2008
"Wearable Expressions" - Juried Exhibition - Palos Verdes,
CA, 2008
"Animedallion", Solo Exhibition, San Francisco, CA, 2008
"One Night Stand", Live Performance with community participation,
San Jose, CA, 2007
"Material Culture" Co-Curator and Exhibiting Artist,
Cupertino, CA, 2007
"Permanent Madness" Solo exhibition, A Series of Events:
Lectures, Performance, Installation, San Jose, CA, 2006 - 2007
"Calling Into the Void" Curator and Exhibiting Artist
San Jose, CA, 2005
"Shared Passions" Co-Curator, Cupertino, CA, 2005
"Re/Present" Collaborative project with Iranian artists and
community, CCA, Oakland, CA, 2005
"Of Past and Present" Collaborative project with community,
San Francisco, CA, 2005
"Fiber 2004", Decatur, IL, 2004
"Blue", San Jose, CA, 2004
"Closing the Distance" Cupertino, CA, 2004
"Critical Terrain", Two-person Exhibition, Bloomfield Hills,
MI, 2000
“AMILA Annual Art Exhibit” San Francisco, CA, 2000
“The Journey of The Eldest Princess” Solo Exhibition
Campbell, CA, 1999
"Merging Boundaries", Ann Arbor, MI, 1998
"What's in the Air…New Work by Young Textile Artists"
Kansas City, MO, 1997
"Suspended in Space", Rochester, MI, 1997
“Phase II”, Network Gallery, Pontiac, MI, 1996 - 1997
“Fiber ’96”, Textile Art Centre, Chicago, IL, 1996
“A Discontinuous Thread”, Detroit, MI, 1996
“Graduate Degree Exhibit”, Bloomfield Hills, MI, 1996
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Selected Publications:
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Fiberarts Magazine
The Campbell Reporter
Fiberarts Magazine
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March/April 1999, Vol. 25, No. 5, pp.51-52
July 7, 1999, Vol. 1, Issue 16, p.5
November/December, 1996, Vol. 23, No. 2, p.47
September/October 1996, Vol. 23, No. 3, p.9
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References Available Upon Request |
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