Resume
Education
2015 MFA, Printmaking, University of Dallas, Irving, TX
2013 MA, Printmaking, University of Dallas, Irving, TX
2011 BA, Philosophy of Religious Studies, California State University of Fresno, Fresno, CA
Experience
August 2025- Present Printmaking, Drawing instructor Booker T. Washington High School for the Visual and
Performing Arts, Dallas Independent School District, Dallas, Texas
August 2016 - 2025 Studio Art Teacher, Advanced Placement, and International Baccalaureate Studio Arts
Woodrow Wilson High School, Dallas Independent School District, Dallas, Texas
September 2020 - 2024 Curriculum writer for Studio art 2, Drawing 2
Dallas Independent School District, Dallas, Texas
March 2016 - August 2016 Visual Merchandiser Anthropologie, Dallas, Texas
September 2014- July 2016 Adjunct Faculty, Art, Tarrant County Community College, Fort Worth, Texas
January 2014 – May 2015 Graduate Assistant in Art History, University of Dallas, Irving, Texas
Solo Exhibitions
2025 Next Chapter, Umbrella Gallery, Dallas, TX
2016 Hope For The Morning, Tarrant County Community College, Fort Worth, TX
2015 Fact, Fiction, Whimsy, Focus Gallery, Irving Arts Center, Irving, TX
2013 Intangibilities, Gorman Gallery, University of Dallas, Irving TX
Selected Exhibitions
2025 Vignette, Dallas, Texas (Juror: Maggie Adler)
2023 7 from 707, 2608 Sylvan Avenue, Dallas, Texas
2021 The Heart of Teaching, Music Hall, Fair Park, Dallas, Texas
2020 HYPERLOCAL, The MAC, Dallas, TX
2019 Cedars Studio Tours, Dallas, TX
2018 A Group Show, Selected works, at Kettle Art Gallery, Dallas, TX
2017 Truth In Comedy, Full City Rooster, Dallas TX
2015 Art Conspiracy 11, Dallas, TX
2015 Skewed: Art Conspiracy Seed event, invited artist, Mokah Art gallery, Dallas, TX
2015 Rising Eyes of Texas 2015, Rockport Center for the Arts, Rockport, TX (Juror:
Shea Little)
2015 Open Studios Exhibition, upper gallery, University of Dallas, Irving, TX
2015 Currency, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2015 Art Con Select presented by Kettle, Kettle Art gallery, Dallas, TX
2014 Taste of The Arts, Print Exhibition, Arts Visalia, Visalia, CA
2014 New Texas Talent, Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX ( Juror: Andrea Karnes)
2014 North American Print and Drawing Exhibition, Arts Visalia, Visalia, CA (Juror:
Roxanne Sexauer)
2014 The Deans Gallery, California State University of Fresno, Fresno, CA
2014 The Bureaucracy of Banality, Haggerty Gallery, University of Dallas, Irving, TX
(Juror: Nancy Whitenack)
2014 Expo, Gallery 500X, Dallas, TX (Juror: Gabriel Ritter)
2013 A Night of Performance Art, Haggerty Gallery, University of Dallas, Irving TX
2013 Framed, Mokah Art Gallery, Dallas, TX
2013 Art Con: Mounted, Mokah Art Gallery, Dallas, TX
2013 8, Haggerty Gallery, University of Dallas, Irving TX (Juror: Erin Cluley)
2013 Previously Untitled, University of Dallas, Irving, TX
2012 Framed, Mokah Art Gallery, Dallas, TX
2012 Dia De los Muertos, Latino Cultural Center, Dallas TX
2012 North Texas Print Guild Association Show, Irving, TX
2012 Art Con 8, Dallas Texas
2012 Don’t Blame the Printer, University of Dallas, Irving, TX
2012 New Crop: 500x College expo (Juror: Barry Whistler and Allison V.
Smith)
2011 Senior Art exhibition, Conley Gallery, CSU Fresno, Juried
Awards
2025 Grand Champion Classroom Teacher, Fort Worth Stock Yards classroom educator, awarded $6,000 for
demonstration of teaching
2020 Fellows Award recipient, College Board AP, SCAD APSI Atlanta, Georgia
This award paid for a scholarship to attend an AP arts conference at SCAD in Atlanta, Georgia
2013 Honorable Mention, North American Print and Drawing Exhibition, Arts Visalia, Visalia, CA
Presentations & Residencies
2022 Presenter: IB Visual Art Strategies, Texas Art Education Association, McAllen, Texas
2021 Presenter: Growing Creativity, Texas Art Education Association, Round Rock, Texas
Presenter: Google sites for your classroom, Texas Art Education Association, Round Rock, Texas
2018- 20 Artist in Residence, Art Incubator, Cedars Union Dallas, Texas
2018 Presenter: Radical Rubrics, Presentation for Woodrow Wilson High School, Dallas, Texas
2017 Presenter: Inferencing in the Art room, Texas Art Education Association, Galveston, Texas
Grants
2025 Burt Butler Faculty Award, Research and travel stipend for frogman's printmaking workshop
2021 Instructional Related Activities grants, Woodrow Wilson Alumni Grant, Dallas, Texas
This grant funded a ceramics entrepreneurial project for students. Awarded $1500.
2019 Instructional Related Activities Grant, Women’s Junior League of Dallas,
This grant funded printmaking & entrepreneurial education for students. Awarded $2000.
Instructional Related Activities Grant Dallas ISD’s Innovative Teaching recipient for school-wide
innovation through SEL. This grant paid for teacher professional development, supplemental classroom
items for social-emotional supportive lessons across the school campus. Awarded $50,000
Other Professional Experience
2021 Texas Art Education, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion team member, attending online professional development on
the subject of including EDI in the arts classroom
2021 Teacher, art enrichment after school, and weekend teacher for immigrant youth held in transition, Kay Bailey
Hutchinson Convention Center, Dallas Texas
2019 - Present Student Mentor, Extended Essay volunteer mentor for students, Dallas, Texas
2019-21Comittee member, Master Schedule planning committee member, Dallas ISD
2018 Solo Thru Hike, Documenting nature, research collection, 90 miles on John Muir Trail (ended due to fires),
Yosemite National Park, Yosemite, California
2017 Story Teller, The Wonder Phone, BC Workshop, National Endowment for the arts, Dallas, Texas
2015 Curator of prints, Paradigm Shift by Juergen Strunck, Upper Gallery, University of Dallas, Irving, Texas
2012 Frogmans printmaking workshop attendee, Michael Barnes: Lithography South Dakota
2011 Assistant printmaker for: Sarah Marshal, Frank Boyden, Mike McGovern, Christopher Lahti, Brandon
Sanderson, Jason Moore, Andrew Koston, at Print & Glory, California State University of Fresno, Fresno, Ca
2011 Relief Demonstrations, Arêtes Americana, Fresno, California
2011 Relief Demonstrations, Taste of the Arts, Visalia, California
2011 Relief Demonstrations, East of Fresno at the Hatchery, Auburn, California
Portfolio Exchanges
2015 For the Love of Wes [Anderson] Hosted by Blue Cat Press, Madison, Wisconsin
2014 Currency Hosted by the University of North Texas and the University of Dallas
Give a Slap, Take a slap Hosted by Weston Beeler, Northern Illinois University
2013 Get your ass to mars Hosted by Print & Glory, at California State University of Fresno
2013 Printmakers MKE, Southern Graphics print exchange participant, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2011 The Artful Dodger: Volume 1 ‘zine’ exchange hosted by Darren Jones, Fresno, California
Publications
2013 North American Print and Drawing Exhibition, Accompanying Catalogue, Arts Visalia, Visalia, CA
2012 Ramify, Journal of The Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts “Helping Hand of God” Relief, 2011
accompanying a written essay. Universtiy of Dallas, Irving, Texas
Collections
Dallas Independent School District, Dallas, Texas
The University of Dallas, Print Archive, Irving, Texas
The University of North Texas, Print Archive, Denton, Texas
California State University of Fresno, Printmaking Archive, Fresno, California
Stonehouse Residency Archive, Miramonte, California
Boise State University, Printmaking Archives, Boise, Idaho
Memberships
2016 – Present Texas Art Educators Association
2011 – 2016 Southern Graphics Council, annual conference
Service
2021 Curriculum Writer, Visual Arts curriculum writer, Dallas Independent School District, Dallas, Texas
Faculty Co-Advisor Art Club student organization, Woodrow Wilson High School, Dallas, Texas
2020 Senior advisor, Extended Essay Supervisor, Woodrow Wilson High School, Dallas, Texas
Faculty Co-Advisor Art Club student organization, Woodrow Wilson High School, Dallas, Texas
2019 Faculty Master Scheduling Advisor, assist in creating courses for the campus, Woodrow Wilson High School,
Dallas, Texas
Coordinating visiting Artists, Woodrow Wilson High School, Dallas, Texas
Spring Semester: Drawing demonstrations Hatziel Flores
Coordinated Student Field Trips, Dallas Contemporary, Woodrow Wilson High School, Dallas, Texas
Faculty Co-Advisor Art Club student organization, Woodrow Wilson High School, Dallas, Texas
Bibliography
Umsted, Renee, Woodrow Wilson art teacher featured in Dallas Education Foundation, Advocate Lakewood/East
Dallas, October 21, 2020
Vinson, Patti, How Woodrow teaches create a piece for peace, Advocate Lakewood/East Dallas, June 24, 2019