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Curriculum Vitae

Elaine Cimino

990 18th Street NW unit 105, Albuquerque, NM 87104

505 508-0255

ecimino10@gmail.com

www.artistactivista.com

Education

Education California State University, Northridge (CSUN)

Degree: MA Major Fine Art emphasis on Painting, Photography, Drawing

1993 Master Thesis: Evolutionary Landscapes

Art Center College of Design, Pasadena CA Degree: BFA Major Fine Art Painting

1990 Mentors: Lita Albuquerque, Peter Liashcov and John Millei

Hillsborough Community College, Tampa, FL Major: Liberal Arts Journalism

Editor Triad magazine, Columnist La Gaceta Trilingual newspaper

Professional Development – UNM CE Multimedia Certificate Program—2009-2010

Professional experience: Employment and Specialized Training

2010 Multimedia Artist freelance marketing consultant Social Media and Solar Energy

2008-2010 Multimedia training at the University of New Mexico

1990-2010 Private art lessons in Drawing, Painting, Encaustic and Watercolor

2010 Social Media Marketing Consultant for Consolidated Solar Technologies

2009-2010 Wrote two books on children’s art education drawing programs, a teacher resources to teaching drawing Born to Draw Series started.

2007-2008 Wrote book on climate change and water issues facing the US. “Thirsty for Change”

2000-2005 Producer, Director, Writer & Photographer: Video Project

SFCC Make your Mark program

1999-Present Founder and Director: Citizens for Environmental Safeguards

Non-profit www.environmentalsafeguards.org

2001-2006 Coordinator: Make Your Mark Project for SFCC Fine Arts Department

2000-2006 Grant Writer: SFCC Fine Arts Department

2005 Guest lecturer and interview host for the Center of Photographic History

2004 Site Santa Fe, NM, Presentation for the Make Your Mark outreach program

2000 Guest lecturer: Indigenous Environmental Conference in Brownsville, Texas

Speaking on the Cerro Grande Fire at Los Alamos and

Contamination Impacts

1998-1999 Art Education Coordinator:

Trust for the Art of the West

Taos, Los Alamos, Espanola and Santa Fe

1996-1997 Consultant & Grant writer:

California State University, Monterey Bay, CA

Institute of Community Networking

Indigenous Contemporary Culture and Arts Project

1994-2001 Grant writer:

Costanoan Indian Research, Inc.

Central Coast Tobacco-Free Regional District.

1993 Illustrator/Storyboard Artist:

Weintraub/Kuhn Productions: Storyboarding Film

“Finnegan’s Wake”, with director Chris McIntyre

1991 Art Director: Freelance

Image Design Studio, Los Angeles, CA

Clients: Leggale, Porqouis, Apparel Limited, Guess, Crystal Magick.

1990 Illustrator: Children’s Book, Grimm’s Fairy Tale, “The Elves and The Shoemaker”

1988-1990 Gallery catalog and archivist:

G.Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1988-1990 Administrative Assistant:

Art Center At Night, Pasadena, CA

1987 Freelance Illustrator & Graphic Designer:

Film & TV storyboards, logos & brochures

1985-1987 Creative Director:

Creative Advertising Concepts, Murr Associates

United States Promotions, Costa Mesa, CA

Major Market Auto Dealers advertisements in print, radio and television.

1984 Executive producer, writer and editor: Documentary Art Bilingual Videos

Videos for cable television marketed to the Artist-in-the-Schools Program.

Sponsor funded.

1983-1985 Graphic Specialist:

Clients: Godfrey Engineering, University of South Florida, USF Medical Center, NASA, Lykes, Polar Beer, L’eggs, Seagram’s, Spencer Gifts,

Anheuser-Busch, Hanna-Barbera and country-rock group Alabama.

1984 Freelance Photographer:

Tampa Bay Bandits, Professional Football Team

1983 – 1985 Columnist:

La Gaceta, Tampa, FL, (Trilingual newspaper), wrote on the quality of education issues. - AP and UPI picked up story.

Teaching Experience

1998-2006 Santa Fe Community College (SFCC)

Studio Art Drawing 1 Painting 1

Art History Artistic Traditions of the Southwest

1999 University of New Mexico (UNM)

Los Alamos 1998-1999 Art History Survey of Native American Art

Southwest Modern Art

Art History Artistic Traditions of the Southwest

Studio Art Two Dimensional Design

Drawing 1

Taos 1997-1998 Art History Artistic Traditions of the Southwest

1998-99 Santa Fe Public Schools Artist-in-Residence & Sub Teaching K –12

Thaw Foundation Grant

1998 Taos Unified School District Goals 2000 Program, Artists-in-the-Schools

Federal grant funded

1997 Chapman University, Monterey, CA

Art History American Art History:1600-present

1997 Hartnell Community College, Salinas, CA Art History Italian Renaissance to Impressionism

1996-1997 La Mesa Elementary, Lyceum, Monterey, CA,

Born to Draw: Art enrichment

1995-1997 Carmel Unified School District Artist-in-Residence 1st-5th grade

Born to Draw: Art enrichment, developed art curriculum for elementary students

1994-1997 Monte Vista Elementary, Monterey, CA, Born to Draw: Art enrichment1st-5th grade

1992-1993 Cerritos Community College, Los Angeles, CA

Studio Art Basis of Drawing

Art History American Art History

1991-1993 Learning Tree University (LTU), Los Angeles, CA

Chatsworth Campus Studio Art Color Theory 1 & 2,Design & Comp 1 & 2

Design Fundamentals, Basis of Drawing

Art History Modern Art

Thousand Oaks Campus

Studio Art Painting 1, Drawing 1, Foundation Courses

1989-1993 Los Angeles City College Production Design: print media, Art History

Projects

1990-2010 Private art lessons in Drawing, Painting, Encaustic and Watercolor

2010 Social Media Marketing Consultant for Consolidated Solar Technologies

2009-2010 Wrote two books on Children Drawing programs teacher resources to teaching drawing

Born to Draw Series started.

2007-2008 Wrote book on Climate Change and water issues facing the US. “Thirsty for Change”

2001-2006 Make Your Mark Project College Credit Summer Arts for High School Students

Project Director: Video producer, director, writer and photographer

Grant writer: Santa Fe Community College Fine Arts Department

2001-2005 Environmental Justice Survey and Report on Perception of Contaminants from Los Alamos National Laboratory

2000–2005 Successfully stalled the installation of a military Black Hawk helicopter base at the Santa Fe Airport

2000–2008 Working on sole source aquifer petition and designation for the Espanola Basin.

1999 Successfully implemented safeguards on waste water treatment plant to keep the City of Santa Fe from dumping 17 million gallons of raw sewage into Santa Fe River.

1998 Harwood Art Museum: Trust for the Art of the West, Children’s art classes

Legislative Activities 2004

Advocate on environmental issues lobbied Capital Hill, Washington, DC 2001-2003
Memorial passed for interim committee to oversee Los Alamos National Laboratory
2001 Anti-SLAPP legislative bill passed in the New Mexico Legislature to insure citizen civil suit rights and the right to speak against a corporation/development worked on organizing statewide grassroots support via the Internet with Frederick Rowe.

Presentations

2005 Guest lecturer and interview host for the Center of Photographic History

2004-2005 Site Santa Fe - Presentation of the Make Your Mark, art education program

2004 Presentation to Environmental Justice Listening Session sponsored by U.S. Justice Department, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the NM Environment Department, speaking on LANL contaminant impacts on communities of color.

2002-2004 Presented information to the New Mexico State Legislature LANL Memorials passed on Interim Committee on LANL Contaminants for 3 years consecutively

2000 Indigenous Environmental Network guest panelist on “LANL Contaminant Impacts from Cerro Grande Fire.” Guest on radio program “Native America Calling”

2000-2005 KSFR Public Radio Santa Fe various programs on environmental justice issues facing and impacting the community

Publications

2011 Born to Draw Children Art Drawing Program iBooks on iTunes Enhanced Version

2010 The Grassroots News – Publisher Stephen Klinger.

2009-2010 THE JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABILIY E- Publication Publisher George Makinkas

Water Issues in New Mexico

1600 Blackhawk River, Rio Rancho, New Mexico, USA 87144

2000 Elaine Cimino and Zane Spiegel Ph.D., “La Cienega Valley Sole Source Aquifer Designation Petition” EPA, 2000.

2003 Elaine Cimino, White paper on “Civil Rights Complaints involving LANL Contaminants” to Civil Rights Commission, Washington D.C.

Grants

2000–2006 National Endowment for the Arts and New Mexico Arts Cultural grants funding

The Make Your Mark Project awarded $55,000, wrote grants

2004-2005 Environmental Protection Agency: Environmental Justice, Grant to Survey Perceptions on LANL Contaminants, awarded $20,000, wrote grant

2001- 2004 Pond Foundation: For environmental work, awarded $35,000, wrote grant

2000-2002 Thaw Foundation: Art Project: Artist-in-Residence, awarded $50,000

2000 Goals 2000: Art Project: Artist-in-Residence $50,000, part of entire project

1999 McCune Foundation: Art Project: award $10,000, wrote grant

Elaine Cimino : Curriculum Vitae