Education

1982 BA: University of Toledo. Toledo, Ohio.
1985 MA: University of California at San Francisco.
(Master’s Degree in Medical and Biological Illustration)
1984: Internship completed at The Arizona Heart Institute in Phoenix
1984: Internship completed at The Annenberg Center for Health Sciences,
(Eisenhower Medical Center, Ambassador Annenberg, sponsored)

Work Experience

Commercial Illustrator since 1977
Animation/Digital experience since 1982

- Professor at the Art Institute of Los Angeles teaching animation courses in animation, visual efx, illustration.

- Illustrator for Quality Medical Publishing. St. Louis, MO. Book: Perforator Flaps, edited by Dr. Blondeel.

- Illustrator for Ineedce. Art for online continuing education courses for the dentist. www.ineedce.com

- Digital Background Painter for the Leap Frog Educational DVD on The Letter Factory

- Lead artist, Knowledge Adventure/Vivendi Universal (edutainment software)

- Illustrator and Forensic Analyst for Michael M Hickey’s The Death of Warren Baxter Earp, based on coroner’s notes from 1900 Tombstone, Arizona

- Illustrator, layout artist and writer for OJ Is Guilty, But Not Of Murder, author: Det. William C. Dear

- Illustrator, Layout Artist and Analyst for French Anderson, MD’s Forensic Analysis of the FBI Firefight, based on coroner’s notes and reports from the FBI agents involved in the firefight.

- Illustrated Good Housekeeping’s Book of Women’s Health

- Created landscape painting of McMurdo Station for US Air Force National Archives, Washington DC. Traveled to Antarctica with the Air Force for onsite research.

- Illustrated The New Yale Heart Book

- Animator for Genentech’s video Recombinant DNA

- Created painting of the US Air Force (National Archives) involvement in the Palau Islands (near New Guinea). Traveled onsite with Air Force to do research.

- Illustrated Disney’s Encyclopedia of Baby and Child Care

- Created storyboards, portraits and animation for interactive laser disc 'The Life and Times of Albert Einstein'. Worked at The Smithsonian and Skywalker Ranch (LucasFilm, Ltd.)

- Animated sequence on sickle cell anemia for Lucasfilm, Ltd.

- Illustrator/Animator for interactive laser disc on Watson Crick’s DNA model for The Smithsonian

- Producer, Illustrator, Animator for CMESat (Continuing Medical Education via Satellite) at Johns Hopkins and Harvard.

Special Skills

Photoshop Guru, Illustrator, Quark, Flash, After Effects, working knowledge of Maya and MAX.

Professional Organizations

1997 - Present
Women In Animation

1996 - Present
Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists, Local 839 i.a.t.s.e.

1993 - Present
Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles

1993 - Present
Air Force Art Program