1992 to 1993 |
Art Center College of Design Pasadena, CA
Master of Fine Arts - Photography |
1987 to 1990 |
Art Center College of Design Pasadena, CA
Bachelor of Fine Arts - Photography |
1978 to 1982 |
University of California, Riverside
Bachelor of Arts - Liberal Studies .
Dean’s Honor List. Member: Phi Gamma Delta. |
Summary of Experience
1997 to present |
UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History
Los Angeles, CA
Director of Photography - Direct department operations, budget, planning, and personnel. Photograph all aspects of museum publications and exhibitions. Set museum policies for photographic usage, copyright and fees. Organize and maintain extensive photographic archive. Instructor for World Arts and Cultures course.
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| 2009 to present |
Art Institute of California - Hollywood
Hollywood, CA
Instructor - Graphic Design Department. Courses taught: Image Manipulation, Advanced Image Manipulation, and Introduction to Digital Photography. Instruct students in current digital imaging techniques, composition, color theory, lighting techniques, Camera Raw, portfolio development, and digital camera techniques.
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| 1997 to 2016
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Los Angeles Mission College Sylmar, CA
Instructor - Multimedia Department. Advanced Digital Imaging. Beginning Digital Imaging. Instruct students in current digital imaging techniques, theory, and art. Served as consultant in developing Multimedia Program for six months.
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1989 to present |
Don Cole Photography Pasadena , CA
Owner - Specializing in fine art prints, corporate brochures, C.D. cover art, digital images. Member: APA.
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1995 to 2005 |
Cerritos Community College Cerritos, CA
Instructor - Photography Department. Courses taught: Portraiture, Advanced Photography, Digital Imaging, Studio Problems, Introduction to Photography, Experimental Photography, Non-silver Photography, and Portfolio Development. Instruct students in processing, materials, lighting, camera techniques, art history.
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1990 to 1997 |
Art Center College of Design Pasadena, CA
Instructor - Photography Department. Instruct students in all aspects of color photography and digital imaging including developing, printing, composition, lighting, and creative techniques. Digital scanning, printing, film recording, and image manipulation.
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| 1984 to 1987 |
The Press-Enterprise Company Riverside , CA
Photographer/Writer - Promotion Department. Editor, writer, photographer. Composed advertising copy. Developed and implemented advertising schedules. |
1982 to 1984 |
Editorial Assistant - Complete operational responsibility for news wire room. Wrote information for weather tables and community records.
Community Relations Assistant - Wrote copy and scheduled ads for community events. Organized the Kodak International Photography Contest.
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1982 |
University of California, Riverside
Technical Writer/Lab Assistant - Botany and Plant Science Department. Translated collected data and developed graphs and tables for scientific publications.
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Summer 1981
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City Attorney’s Office San Bernardino, CA
Intern - Created and wrote instructions for use of law library. Wrote legal briefs.
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Publications
Enduring Splendor, Jewelry of India’s Thar Desert, by Thomas Seligman & Usha Balakrishnan, Principal Photographer, Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2017
World Share, Installations by Pascale Marthine Tayou, Principal Photographer, Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2016
Jose Montoya’s Abundant Harvest, Principal Photographer, Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2016
Sinful Saints and Saintly Sinners at the Margins of the Americas, Principal Photographer, Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2015
World Arts, Local Lives: The Collections of the Fowler Museum at UCLA, Principal Photographer, Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2014
Textiles of Timor, Island of the Woven Sea, Principal Photographer, Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2014
L’art des Lega: Secrets d’ivoire, Principal Photographer, Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2014
Refined Eye, Passionate Heart: African Art From the Leslie Sacks Collection, Principal Photographer, Skira, 2013
Resplendent Dress From Southeastern Europe, Principal Photographer, Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2013
In Extremis, Principal Photographer, Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2012
Order and Disorder, Principal Photographer, Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2012
Weavers’ Stories From Island Southeast Asia, Principal Photographer, Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2012
Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley, Principal Photographer, Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2011
Nini Towok’s Spinning Wheel, Principal Photographer, Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2010
Steeped in History, The Art of Tea, Principal Photographer, Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2009
Silver Seduction, The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda, Principal Photographer, Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2008
Mami Wata, Principal Photographer, Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2008
Material Choices, Principal Photographer, Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2008
Worldwide History of Dress, Principal Photographer, Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2007
Makishi: Mask Characters of Zambia, Principal Photographer, UCLA Fowler Museum, 2007
Intersections: World Arts, Local Lives, Principal Photographer, UCLA Fowler Museum, 2007
Flames of Devotion, Principal Photographer, UCLA Fowler Museum, 2006
Art of Being Tuareg, Principal Photographer, UCLA Fowler Museum, 2006
Painting Ethiopia, The Life and Work of Qes Adamu Tesfaw, Principal Photographer, UCLA Fowler Museum , 2005
Unwrapping the Textile Traditions of Madagascar, Principal Photographer, UCLA Fowler Museum, 2005
Botanicas Los Angeles, Latino Popular Religious Art in the City of Angels, Principal Photographer, UCLA Fowler Museum, 2004
Divine Revolution, The Art of Edouard Duval-Carrie, Principal Photographer, UCLA Fowler Museum , 2004
The Art of Rice: Spirit and Sustenance in Asia, Principal Photographer, UCLA Fowler Museum , 2004
Ceramic Trees of Life: Popular Art from Mexico, Principal Photographer, UCLA Fowler Museum , 2004
A Saint in the City, Principal Photographer, UCLA Fowler Museum , 2003
MATSURI! Japanese Festival Arts, Principal Photographer, UCLA Fowler Museum , 2003
Ways of the Rivers, Principal Photographer, UCLA Fowler Museum , 2002
Art of the Lega, Principal Photographer, UCLA Fowler Museum , 2001
Japanese Fishermen’s Coats from Awaji Island, Principal Photographer, UCLA Fowler Museum , 2001
Katsina: Commodified and Appropriated Images of Hopi Supernaturals, Principal Photographer, UCLA Fowler Museum, 2001
Body Politics: The Female Image in Luba Art and the Sculpture of Alison Saar, Principal Photographer, UCLA Fowler Museum, 2000
Threads of Light: Chinese Embroidery From Suzhou and the Photography of Robert Glenn Ketchum, Principal Photographer, UCLA Fowler Museum, 1999
Turn Up the Volume! A Celebration of African Music, Principal Photographer, UCLA Fowler Museum, 1999
Walk in Splendor: Ceremonial Dress and the Minangkabau, Principal Photographer, UCLA Fowler Museum, 1999
The Cast-Off Recast: Recycling and the Creative Transformation of Mass-Produced Objects, Principal Photographer, UCLA Fowler Museum, 1999
Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity, Principal Photographer, UCLA Fowler Museum, 1998
From the Rainbow’s Varied Hue: Textiles of the Southern Philippines, Principal Photographer, UCLA Fowler Museum , 1998
Basketry of the Luzon Cordillera, Philippines, Principal Photographer, UCLA Fowler Museum, 1998
Beads Body and Soul: Art and Light in the Yoruba Universe, Principal Photographer, UCLA Fowler Museum, 1998
Che Guevara, Icon, Myth, and Message, Principal Photographer, UCLA Fowler Museum, 1997
The Art of Being Kuna: Layers of Meaning Among the Kuna of Panama, Principal Photographer, UCLA Fowler Museum , 1997
Book Covers
Yoruba Traditions and African American Religious Nationalism (Religions of the Americas, by Tracey Hucks. University of New Mexico Press, 2012
The Poetics of Cloth, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 2008
The Pygmies Were Our Compass: Bantu and Batwa in the History of West Central Africa, Early Times to c. 1900 C.E. by Kairn A. Kleiman, Greenwood Publishing, 2003
Narrative and the Cultural Construction of Illness and Healing By Linda C. Garro and Cheryl Mattingly. University of California Press, Cover, 1999
Moche Fineline Painting: It’s Evolution and its Artists, Cover and Title Page, 1999
The Flowers of Wiricuta: A Journey to Shamanic Power With the Huichol Indians of Mexico By Dr. Tom Soloway Pinkson, Cover, 1997
Contributing Photographer, Selected Publications
Launching the Imagination by Mary Stewart, fifth edition, 2014
Tradition and Change in Maori and Pacific Art, by Roger Neich, Auckland War Memorial
Museum, 2013
Caribbean: Art at the Crossroads of the World, El Museo Del Barrio, New York, 2013
African Art and the Shape of Time, by Prita Meier and Raymond Silverman, University of Michigan Museum of Art, 2012
Africanizing Christian Art, Kevin Carroll and Yoruba Christian Art in Nigeria, Irish Province , Society for the African Missions (SMA), Cork, 2012
Visions Of Africa, 5 Continents Editions, 2012
Gardner’s Art Through the Ages, 14e, by Fred Kleiner, Cengage Learning, LACMA 2012
Children of the Plumed Serpent: The Legend of Quetzalcoatl In Ancient Mexico,
The Divine Trickster, ACC, UK, 2012
Nga Kakahu: Maori Cloaks of Te Papa, Te Papa Press, 2011
Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World, LACMA, 2011
Radcliffe Bailey: Memory As Medicine, High Museum of Art, 2011
In Living Color: The Biological and Social Meaning of Skin Color, University of California Press, 2011
Life, Death, and Magic: 2000 years of Southeast Asian Ancestral Art, National Gallery of Australia, 2010
Bali: Art, Ritual, Performance, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 2010
A Treasury of Indonesian Textiles, Yale University Press, 2010
Through African Eyes: The European in African Art, 1500 to Present, Detroit Institute of Arts, 2010
Africa and the West, Volume II, Oxford University Press, 2010
National Geographic Image Collection, National Geographic, 2009
Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, Berg Fashion Library, 2009
Man Ray, African Arts & The Modernist Lens, International Arts & Artists, 2009
Vigilant Things: The Strange Fates of Ordinary Objects in Nigeria, University of Washington Press, 2009
Masterpieces of Nigerian Art, Federal Ministry of Information and Communications, Nigeria, 2008
The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 2008
The Horse Rider, 5 Continents Editions, 2007
Launching the Imagination, McGraw-Hill, 2007
Black God, Powerhouse, New York, 2007
New Encyclopedia of Africa, Thompson Learning, 2007
Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds, Yale University Press, 2007
Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art, Smithsonian, Five Continents Editions, 2007
Music: A Mathematical Offering, Cambridge University Press, 2006
Art History, Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006
Luba, 5 Continents Editions, 2006
A History of Art in Africa, Prentice Hall, 2006
The Arts of Asia, by Meher McArthur. Thames & Hudson, 2005
Encyclopedia of Religion, (Volumes 7,8 & 10), Thompson Gale publisher, 2005
Weaving Generations Together, Evolving Creativity in the Maya of Chiapas, By Dr. Patricia Marks Greenfield, 2004
Pfeifen, Hanf und Tabak in Schwarzafrika, by Wolfgang Cremer. Baum Publications, 2004
Medicine Man: The Forgotten Museum of Henry Wellcome, edited by Ken Arnold and Danielle Olsen, 2003
The New Book of Knowledge, Grolier Publishing Company, Inc., 2003
Keris/Cloth: Sacred Metal and Textile Arts of Indonesia, by Susan Rogers
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery , College of the Holy Cross, 2003
The World Moves, We Follow, Celebrating African Art, by William J. Dewey
Frank H. McClung Museum, The University of Tennessee, 2003
Aztecs, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2003
ARTFORMS: An Introduction to the Visual Arts, by Duane Preble, Sarah Preble, Patrick Frank Prentiss Hall, 2002
Another Stela From Terrenouthis, By Dr. Monica Bontty, 2001
Social Studies/Grade 1, Harcourt Brace Publisher, 2001
Encyclopedia of African Art, Macmillan Reference Ltd., 2001
Arts and the Afterlife: Los Angeles County Museum of Art , 2000
Art In Focus By Gene A. Mittler, Glencoe/McGraw Hill Publisher, 2000
Call-and-Response: Journeys of African Art, 2000
Memory, History, Narrative: A Comparative Inquiry into the Representation of Crisis, By Carlo Severi, Getty Research Institute, 2000
Gardner, Art Through the Ages, Harcourt Brace, 2000
Call and Response: Journeys in African Art, Yale University Art Gallery, 2000
Masks: Faces of Culture By John W. Nunley and Cara McCarty
Harry Abrams, Inc. in association with the St. Louis Art Museum, 2000
The World’s History , Second Edition, Vol. I: to 1500. By Howard Spodek. Calmann & King, ltd.
Arttalk By Rosalind Ragans, Glencoe McGraw-Hill, 2000
What Life Was Like Series – African Kingdoms (Vol. 19) Time-Life Books, 2000
Art: A Global Connection Davis Publications, Inc., 2000
Music! Its Roll And Importance In Our Lives, By Charles Fowler, Glencoe/McGraw Hill Publisher, 2000
My History is America’s History National Endowment for the Humanities, 1999
Wrapped in Pride (Interactive Guide/Web Site), Smithsonian: National Museum of African Art, 1999
The History of Art in Africa By Suzanne Preston Blier, Herbert Cole, Michael Harris, Robin Poyner and Monica Visona, Calmann & King, Ltd., 1999
Nasca By Judith Rickenback, Museum Rietberg, Zurich, Switzerland, 1999
African Art and Divination By Alisa LaGamma, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999
Africa : Voices of the Ancestors Chris Westhorpe, Duncan Baird Publishers, 1999
World Ceramics: From Prehistoric to Modern Times By Hugo and Marjorie Munsterberg Penguin Studio books, 1998
Arte Africana By Ivan Bargna, Jaca Book, 1998
Royal African Art By Suzanne Preston Blier. Calmann & King, 1998
African Arts
Photography Illustration
Autumn 2011
Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley, by Marla C. Berns and Richard Fardon
Winter 2011
Memory and Identity at the Threshold, by Mary (Polly) Nooter Roberts
Autumn 2008
Intersections: World Art, Local Lives
Summer 2006 (Cover Photograph)
Twenty One Crosses, Tuareg Silver
Autumn 2006
Art of Being Tuareg , by Thomas K. Seligman
Winter 2006 (Cover Photograph)
Intersections: World Arts, Local Lives by Marla C. Berns and Polly Nooter Roberts
Autumn 2004
“The Life and Work of Qes Adamu Tesfaw” by Ray A. Silverman
Spring 2003
Golden Emblems of Maternal Benevolence, by Suzanne Gott
Summer 2002 (Cover photograph)
A Saint in the City, Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal , by Allen F. Roberts and Mary Nooter Roberts
Carved Ogboni Figures from Abeokuta Nigeria, by Christopher Slogar
Summer 2001
Body Talk by Henrietta Cosentino and Carine Fabius
Spring 2001 (Cover photograph)
“Break the Silence” Art and HIV/AIDS in KwaZulu-Natal By Allen F. Roberts Portfolio of George Hughes
Winter 2000
Indian Altars of the Spiritual Church, Kongo Echoes in New Orleans, By Stephen C. Wehmeyer
Autumn 2000
Hair in African Art and Culture By Roy Sieber and Frank Herreman. Photographer, (For the Museum for African Art, New York)
Summer 2000 (Cover photograph)
Likeness and Nearness, The Intentionality of the Head in Baule Art By Philip L. Ravenhill.
The Two Worlds of Ciwara by Dominique Zahan, Edited, translated, and annotated By Allen F. Roberts
Summer 1999
Interpreting Projections, Projecting Interpretations, A Reconsideration of the “Phallus” in Esu Iconography By Sarah Watson Parsons.
Spring 1998
Men portraying Women: Representations in African Masks, By Elisabeth Cameron
Winter 1998
Beads, Body, and Soul: Art and Light in the Yoruba Universe , By Henry John Drewel and John Mason
Autumn 1998
Beads, body, and Soul: Art and Light in the Yoruba Universe, Exhibition Review By Deborah Stokes
Summer 1997
Continuity and Change: The Ivories of Ovonramwen and Eweka II, By Barbara Winston Blackmun
Aesthetics and Evolution: Benin Art in Europe , By Elazar Barkan
The Dialectics of Definitions: “Massacre” and “Sack” in the History of the Punitive Expedition, By Ekpo Eyo
Studies of Benin Art and Material Culture, 1897-1997 , By Joseph Nevadomsky
Contributing Photographer, Articles
Ornament Magazine
Contributing Photographer, “Southeastern European Dress, All Things Must Pass” by Carolun L.E. Benesh
Iconohs
Contributing Photographer, Dogon Art by Polly Richards, 2011
Arts and Antiques Weekly
Photographer, “Silver Seduction: The Modernist Art of Antonio Pineda” by Regina Kolbe, 2009
Los Angeles Times
Contributing Photographer, 2008 “The Many Faces of Mother Water!”
TU Ciudad Magazine
Contributing Photographer, 2007 “Botanica!”
School of American Research Press
Cover Photograph and Contributing Photographer, 2004
Los Angeles Times
Contributing Photographer, 2004 “Browsing Through Beliefs”
New York Times
Contributing Photographer, 2003 "A Saint in the City"
Arqueologia Mexicana, Special Edition
Contributing Photographer, 2003
Los Angeles Times
Contributing Photographer, 2003 “MATSURI!”
Los Angeles Times
Contributing Photographer, 2003 “Fired By Imagination”
New York Times
Contributing Photographer, 2003 “Movie Posters”
UCLArts
Cover Photograph and Contributing Photographer, 2003
Kavilco, Inc. (30 th Anniversary Annual Report)
Cover Photograph and Contributing Photographer, 2002
Los Angeles Times
Contributing Photographer, 2002 “Dreaming of Africa” (Ways of the Rivers)
Los Angeles Times
Contributing Photographer, 2002 “A Learning Link to the UCLA Fowler Museum”
Outdoor Photographer (Collector’s Edition)
Contributing Photographer, 2002
Quilters’ Review
Contributing Photographer, 2002 “Restrained Beauty”
Visual Literacy: Writing About Art
Contributing Photographer, 2001
Museum of International Folk Art
Contributing Photographer, 2001
Launching the Imagination by Mary Stewart
Contributing Photographer, 2001
The American Federation of Arts
Photographer 2001
American Indian Art Magazine, The Origins of Huichol Indian Yarn Painting, By Hope MacLean
Contributing Photographer, 2001
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Photographer, 2001
Weekly Reader
Masks of the World Poster
Contributing Photographer, 2000
National Geographic, May 2000
Los Angeles Times
Art Review: Fowler Museum Pairs Embroidery, Photos to Fascinating Effect by David Pagel
Photographer, Wednesday, March 31, 1999
Arts & Architecture
Cover, Fall 1997
Westways
Calendar Section, November/December 1997
Selected Exhibits
- The Wing Gallery, Moreno Valley, CA
- Poulson Gallery, Pasadena, CA
- Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
- Holly Street Gallery, Pasadena, CA
- Riverside Art Museum
- San Bernardino County Museum
- Orange County Center for Contemporary Art
- Cerritos College Art Gallery
- Los Angeles Century Gallery
- Long Beach Arts Gallery
- Gallery 825
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