Academic Experience. Specialized Skills

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1 Curriculum Vitae b. Casper, WY Carmen Tiffany 3705 Tudor Way SE Albany, OR Cell: Web: carmentiffany.com destineezchild.org Education MFA (Master of Fine Art) University of South Florida 2010 BFA (Bachelor of Fine Art) Minnesota State University 2005 American International University, Study Abroad, Florence Italy, 2005 Academic Experience Teaching Experience -Florida International University, Miami, FL-Visiting Instructor and Digital Arts Coordinator (3 Years) 2012-Present -Miami International University, Miami, FL -Adjunct Professor (4 years) Miami Dade College, Miami, FL -Adjunct Professor (1 year) Broward College, Davie, FL -Adjunct Professor (1 year) Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, FL Summer Programming Instructor (3 years) University of South Florida Teaching Graduate Assistant (2 years) Courses Taught (this includes several advanced levels) -2D and 3D Animation -Stop Motion and Compositing & Virtual Environments -Digital Sculpture, Modeling and Prototyping -New Media, Time Based Media -Video for Photography -Experimental Photography -Experimental Video Art -Digital Imaging and Color Theory -Digital Foundations -Beginning Drawing, 2D Design, 3D Design -Ceramics -Art and Cinema Appreciation Specialized Skills Software -Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects, Flash, Audition, Muse -Autodesk Maya, Mudbox, 3DS Max and various online apps such as Sketchup and 123D apps -Maxon Cinema 4D, Unity, Processing -Dragonframe for Stopmotion -Ableton Live Departmental Service and Coordination of Digital Media Grants Technology Fee Grant $75, Technology Fee Grant $125,

2 Curriculum Development -Created following degree tracks: (will become degrees once funding is available) Video, Animation, and Digital Art BFA & MFA Graphic Design BFA & MFA Object Design MFA -Course creation -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 -Coordination -Scheduling of courses to begin graduating the first cohorts of the track, hiring adjuncts to teach lower level courses, advising students on credits and creative pathways. Ensuring accreditation through local state government requirements. -Study Abroad Bauhaus Workshop Program Director for three-week excursion to Berlin & Dessau, Germany and Basel, Switzerland in Summer Students will participate in an intense one-week workshop at the Bauhaus Campus in Dessau and visit several contemporary art and architectural locations in Berlin and Basel. -Community Outreach and Recruitment -I attend Animation Conferences, attend High Schools, and create partnerships with local businesses to create internships for students. -Facilitate student screenings at local institutions such as the Wolfsonian Museum and visiting artists for professional practice development for students. -Mentor and work independently with undergraduate and graduate students. -Create and administrate summer programming for teens to experience college level art creation and introduction to technology as an art form Equipment and Technical Elements -3D Printing -Makerbot Generation 2-5, mini and Z18 -Formlabs resin based printer -Powder based printing -Laser cutter and 3D 5 axis CNC -Electric Ceramic Kilns *I am also quite experienced 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 pre production 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. -Collaborating with a colleague to bring 3D printed ceramic technology to our sculpture department by engineering a machine to work with a computer to extrude slip. Selected Exhibitions 2016 Upcoming Exhibitions 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

3 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

4 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 Artist in Residence Harold Arts, Chesterhill, OH August 2012 Elsewhere, Greensboro, NC May 2013 Special Projects/ Collaborations Curator- Glitter Chariot, Art Basel 2013 Miami, FL Production Designer- Soul Clap Music Video "Soulclapping" Sponsered by Scion Internships Supertest Artist Organization, Tampa, FL (August - Dec. 2009) -Assist with operations of organization such as running errands, ing, 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 Bibliography 2016 *ARTFCITY Gif of the Day *Elements and Principles of 4D Art and Design_Ellen Mueller IMDB Good Juice * Videofocus Bienniel *Miami Rail Review of Poor Happy *Destineez Child featured in essay $, written by David B. Smith Feature Issue 91, October 3 rd -Nov. 6 th * Destineez Child featured in Jerry Saltz review in New York Times for Dependant Art Fair, Armory Arts Week * Destineez Child featured in Art Fag City review of Dependant Art Fair, Armory Arts Week * Featured in artblognyc.com * Bill Powhida Reviews Destineez Child for Seven Art Fair event with Ed Winkleman Gallery #rank Miami! * Special Guest Interview by Thomas Seely, Art Uncovered, breakthroughradio.com, New York, NY *Sjostrom, Jan. Surreal and Fantastical, Palm Beach Daily News, Friday, April 24th, *Levy, Barbara Ann. Showtel 2009 in West Palm Beach, FL: Art as Entertainment, WPB/NYC And

5 Anything Else. *April 26th, Helander, Bruce. Checking Out Who s Checking In: Showtel 7, Post Show Review June Visiting Artist/ Awards Recipient of Independent Graduate Research Grants from the University of South Florida Graduate Assistantship, University of South Florida, 2007 to Independent Travel Grant, University of South Florida for Destineez Child project in New York 2009-Nancy Oliver Memorial Fund (Grand reward for Best in Show at 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 Mark Lowe Endowment Scholarship from Minnesota State University for undergraduate research. Collectives/ Groups Destineez Child Miami, FL/ New York, NY 2009 to present -Videographer and collaborative art producer. -In charge of research for grants and project proposal organization. MFAO Graduate Student Run Organization, USF Tampa, FL Assisted with several activities such as graduate student exhibitions and the annual graduate student run USF Undergraduate International Juried Show. Travel American International University Florence, Italy Undergraduate study abroad student with emphasis in drawing and painting. (Spring semester 2005) University of South Florida Paris, France Graduate study abroad student with focus on four-week independent directed study. (June of 2008)

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