Genevra Bell -RESUME- 2017
Education
● BFA in Fine Art, Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield, Iowa, USA. I graduated Cum Laude with the Outstanding Art Student award, 2009.
● Kendal College, Cumbria, UK (Merit) Certificate in Graphic Design.
Apprenticeships / Continued Studies
● Text Illumination and reproduction, Carrie Allen (reproduction artist for University of Saskatchewan, Canada), Summer, 2002
●Calligraphy, Bonnie Allen, Fairfield, Iowa, 2002-2004
●Calligraphy, artist book making, John Stimson, Fairfield, Iowa, 2003
Jobs in the Arts
Administrator and Teaching Assistant -
for the Department of Fine Art at Maharishi University, 2012-present
Interim Director of Unity Gallery, Iowa, 2012-present
Teaching Experience
Lecturer-University
●Screen Printing: FA 308, 2012 ,
●Screen Printing: (co-taught with Professor Surya Gied), Maharishi University of Management, Iowa, USA, 2013, 2015
Teaching Assistant- University level
●Ceramics: I, II (FA 341) Fine Art Department, Maharishi University of Management, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
●Drawing Studio: (FA 304), 2013, Maharishi University of Management, 2013,
●Painting: 1 (FA 311), 2015
●Principles of Design: (FA 205), 2013
Children K-12 level
●Art Summer Camp--created and taught a summer camp for children aged 9, Iowa, 2007
●Gymnastics coach, for Roosevelt Center, and MUM Rec Center, ages 4-14, 2001-2009
Awards
●"Random Act of Creativity Award" from the city of Fairfield, Iowa, for co-creation of winter, window display for Green Building Supply Co.
●Minted x Pottery Barn Kids Design challenge, 2016
Clients Include:
●Pottery Barn Kids
●Lillypost "books for littles"
●BizzHumm
●ReaderLink
Solo Shows
● I Think There is a Story Here, 2012, The Beauty Shop, Fairfield, Iowa, USA
●Chapter II, In Which We Meet, White Rabbit, Iowa City, 2016
●Johnston County Library, February, 2017
Group Shows
● Perched Transparent, 2005, Unity Gallery, Fairfield, Iowa, USA
●BFA Senior Exhibition, 2009, Unity Gallery, Fairfield, Iowa, USA
●Flying Leap Group Show, 2013, 2014
●Pembroke exhibition, February 2017
Galleries
●Flat Space Art, Nottinghill, UK 2017 to present
●Flying Leap Art Space, Fairfield, Iowa, USA, 2012 to present
●Stacey Hurlin, Fairfield, Iowa, 2014
●Cookhouse Gallery, Windermere, Cumbria, UK, 2011
●The Beauty Shop Art Space, Fairfield, Iowa, 2011
Retail Stores
●Sheila's Cottage , Ambleside, Cumbria, UK, 2011
●The Scarlet Ribbon, Windermere, Cumbria, UK, 2014
● Natural Selections, Fairfield, Iowa, USA, 2013 to present
●White Rabbit, Iowa City, Iowa, USA, 2013 to present
●Sisters Garden, Iowa City, Iowa, USA, 2013 to present
●The Pumpkin Patch, Ames, Iowa, USA, 2013
●Mohair Pear, Cedar Falls, Iowa, USA, 2015- present
●The Plaid Peacock, Waterloo, Iowa, USA, 2015-present
●Crafted QC, Quad Cities, Iowa, USA, 2015-present
List of works:
Image 1. “READ!”, Watercolor, pen, paper, 2015
Image 2. “A Grand Day Out”, Watercolor, pen, paper, 2016
Image 3. “Cover for the Source Newspaper”, Watercolor, pen, paper, 2016
Image 4. “Celebrate!”, Watercolor marker, paper, 2015
References:
a)Gyan Shrosbree, Assistant Professor, Department of Fine Art, colleague, 641-233-1099
b)James Shrosbree, Chair, Professor, Department of Fine Art, colleague and my former professor, 641-233-1099
i)Mara Winningham, Adjunct Faculty, Department of Fine Art, colleague and my former professor