lisa rasmussen

Resume

Lisa Rasmussen MFA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• Broken Drum, San Rafael, CA 2011-present
• JFKU Gallery. Caol Ait (Thin Places) Berkeley, CA 2008
• JFKU, Dreaming the Earth, Berkeley, CA 2008
• Color Graphics, Corporate Exhibition, San Francisco, CA 2008-2010
• The Red Door Gallery, Portals, Oakland, CA 2008

Gallery Representation

• Terra Firma Gallery, San Rafael, CA, 2011-present
• ROOM Gallery, San Rafael, CA 2010-2011
• Studio 333, Sausalito, CA 2007-2009

Selected Group Exhibitions

• PEACE PROJECT
• October 22, 2011 – Gallery9, 6101 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA
• November 4, 2011 – EXPO Arts Center, 4321 Atlantic Avenue, Long Beach
• November 9, 2011 – Swarm Gallery, 560 Second Street, Oakland, CA
• November 2011– Aperture Gallery, New York, NY
• January 7,2012  – Showcase Gallery, Santa Ana, CA
• LAUSD, Save the Arts Benefit, Los Angeles, CA 2011
• JFKU Gallery, Alumni Exhibition, Berkeley, CA 2010
• Gallery Route  One, 24^th Annual Juried Show,  Juror: Jeremy Morgan , Point Reyes, CA 2009
• The Red Door Gallery, ART and the Body Poltick, Oakland, CA 2009
• The Red Door Gallery, Myth, Magic, and Mystery, Oakland, CA 2009
• JFKU Gallery, Graduate Exhibition, Berkeley, CA 2008
• JFKU Gallery, 2×2 Exhibition, Berkeley, CA 2007
• JFKU Gallery, Dreaming Mind with NIAD, Berkeley, CA 2005
• Association  for the Study of Dreams, International Art Exhibition, Boston, MA 2002

Permanent Public Collections

• Alameda County Family Justice Center, Oakland CA

Community Art Projects

• Take 5: ARTbreak Day, Co-Director and Co-Founder, San Francisco Bay Area, 2011-present
• ARTcart, Co-Director and Co-Founder, San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles, 2009-Present
• The Red Door Gallery and Collective,, Co-Managing Director and Co-Founder, Oakland, CA 2008-2009
• The ART of Transformation, Youth Art Fundraiser, Co-Director and Founder, Sausalito, CA 2007-2010
• 1000 Hearts and Hands, Director, Curator, and Art Facilitator, Oakland, CA  2009-2010
• Lincoln Child Centers At risk-Youth Photography Program, Founder, Oakland, CA 2010
• Festival of Hope, Youth Art Exhibition, Oakland, CA 2007-2010
• Youth Eco Trail, Founder and Director, Oakland, CA 2010

Selected Curated Exhibitions

• The Red Door Gallery, Insights of Life from the Shadows of Death, The Red Door Gallery and Collective, Oakland, CA,
• The Red Door Gallery, Myth, Magic, and Mystery, Oakland, CA, 2009
• The Red Door Gallery, Small Works in a Big Space,  Oakland CA, 2009
• The Red Door Gallery, Lineage, The Red Door Gallery, Oakland, CA,  2009
• The Red Door Gallery, Art and the Body Politic, Oakland, CA 2009
• The Red Door Gallery, Portals, CA, 2008

Professional Art Experience

2010-present

Take 5, ART break Day, Co-founder, Director, Event Organizer, Manager, Fundraiser, and Art Facilitator, San Francisco Bay Area.

ART break Day is a free community ART reach event that encourages cultural exchange, communal bounding through the act of making art for free in public space with free and abundant art supplies.  Communities and 1000′s of individuals from all walks of life and continents take a break in the daily routine with the creative process. Take 5: ARTbreak Day participants who leave Take 5: ARTbreak Day’s free art making sites were filled with joy and pure gratitude for having such an amazing opportunity to create, connect, and be inspired by their own imagination and the fellowship of humanity. Event will expand to SoCal in 2012. http://www.artismovingnow.com/artbreakday.html

2008-present

Art is Moving, Co-founder, Director, Blogger, and Art Facilitator

In collaboration with one other artist, I take part in both online and in public community art projects focused on cultivating the public to become more empowered through art.  Also, I have facilitated the art making process with thousands of adults, children, and elders in public spaces, festivals, art walks, and private events with the ARTcart.  http://artismovingnow.com

2011

ARTcart LA at the Wake Up CA Rally, Art Advocacy Art Facilitator, http://www.artsforla.org/news/parents-and-teachers-rally-support-education

2006-2010

Lincoln Child Center, Oakland, CA Art/Activity Therapist,

• Pioneered Transformative Art Program-.Inclusive of creating own expressive art therapy curriculum and build bridges into the wider community through youth public art installations and gallery fundraising exhibitions
• Worked with Severely Emotionally Disturbed (SED) kids. Developed therapeutic curriculum and mentorship program
• Developed special projects to build links between the children and the larger community.
• Led efforts to display students’ art in professional galleries and public spaces.
• Founded the Phil Harley Youth  Professional Gallery on campus

2009

MFA Graduate Program JFKU Berkeley, CA Graduate Mentor

2008-2009

The Red Door Gallery and Collective, Oakland CA Co-Founder, Curator, Management Team, Community Outreach Gallery Executive Manager and Curator. Gallery promotes community dialogue and provides a space for struggling artists, disadvantaged youth, the elderly, and others to exhibit art

• National Institute of Arts and Disabilities at The Red Door
• “Lineage” collaborated with Art with Elders, Bay Area at The Red Door
• What does art Mean to you?” Lincoln Child Center children’s art“1000 Hearts and Hands” Fundraiser for art program for at-risk youth, ALC and Lincoln Child Center Oakland

2005-2006

Art with Elders, Transformative Art Teacher, Union City, CA

2002-2003

Visiting fellow,

2004

Art Teacher/Mentor for At-Risk Teens, Teen Art Explosion Substance Abuse Program, Alternative High School, Rogers, AR

• Developed and implemented a transformative art curriculum.
• Used art mentoring as a tool for transformation to empower at-risk youth.
• Cutting-edge work with kids made the cover story of Dreamtime, the official magazine of the International Association for the Study of Dreams.

Summer 2002

ESL Teacher, Guangzhou Practical English and French School, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

• Taught beginning and intermediate English immersion to persons ranging from business professionals & young adults to teens and children.

2001

Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Dreams and Dreamwork: Dream Group Leadership instructed by Prof. Jeremy Taylor, Graduate Theological Union

1997-2005

Fine Arts Consultant, Spirits in Stone Galleries, Sausalito, CA,Merrill Chase Gallery, Chicago, IL Franklin Bowles/Modern Masters/Dyansen Galleries, San Francisco

• Provided excellent client service, developed collector relations, served as educator to the public
• Studied, exhibited, and sold the works of Rembrandt, Max, Dali, Chagall, Picasso

Publications and Reviews

• 2011, Article, Diverse group embraces open offer to create art: Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/02/BAOG1KVJN2.DTL#ixzz1XD24WQop
• 2011, Article, Forget your coffee break! Take an art break instead Steven E.F. Brown, San Francisco Business Times  http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2011/09/02/forget-your-coffee-break-take-an-art.htm
• 2011, Article, Art Break Day: A chance to take a moment to create: Mary Ellen Hunt, San Francisco Chronicle: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/08/31/NSJL1KRCBV.DTL#ixzz1XD3x7GkI
• 2011, Newspaper Photo Credit,http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/08/31/NSJL1KRCBV.DTL#ixzz1XD3x7GkI
• 2011, Article, Take 5′ and make some art: By Jennifer Modenessi,Oakland Tribune http://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_18788439?IADID=Search-www.insidebayarea.com-www.insidebayarea.com
• 2011 Article, ARTcart LA at the Wake Up CA Rally, http://www.artsforla.org/news/parents-and-teachers-rally-support-education
• 2011, Blog Photo Credit http://www.artsforla.org/news/parents-and-teachers-rally-support-education
• 2011, Video, Artist Spotlight at ROOM Gallery, San Rafael, CA http://blip.tv/episode/5227676
• 2010, Article, “Arkansas Artists in the Spotlight” Leslie Peacock, The Arkansas Times, http://www.arktimes.com/EyeCandy/archives/2010/07/13/arkansas-artists-in-spotlight
• 2010 Radio Interview with E-Marie, Engaging Children with ART, http://www.blogtalkradio.com/e-marie-robertson/2010/06/05/engaging-children-with-art
• 2009 Radio Interview with Amy Conger of Straw into Gold,http://www.blogtalkradio.com/strawintogold/2009/09/23/art-that-moves-the-power-of-art-in-community
• 2009, Article, Kristin Bender reports on the ARTcart! Project-Oakland Tribune, http://artismoving.blogspot.com/2009/09/artcart-spotlights-neighborhoods.html
• 2009 Article, Dewitt Cheng reviews- Insights of Life from the Shadows of Deathhttp://www.eastbayexpress.com/ebx/berserkers/Content?oid=1370768
• 2009  Radio KPFA Interview on Against the Grain (Jan. 20th)http://artismovingnow.com/soonginterview.wav
• 2009 Article,Dewitt Cheng review Art and the Body Politick*http://www.eastbayexpress.com/ebx/rear-view-mirror/Content?oid=1176174
• 2008 Review Portals, Cameron Thrash, http://treeshrines-artistlisarasmussen.blogspot.com/2010/03/art-review.html
• 2008 Video, Help them Soar, LCC feature about my Transformative Art and Healing Program, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj9qP7iBYXw
• 2003, Featured Artist and Cover artist, International Association for the Study of Dreams, Dream Time Magazine
• 2003 Featured Artist, Meaning of Dreams, UK, http://www.realmeaningofdreams.com/lisamarierasmussen.html
• 2003, Cover artist, Electric Dreams, http://dreamgate.hypermart.net/ed-covers/ed10-1cov.jpg
• 2002, ART and Project featured, Artistic Contributor in the Book, Shadowboxes and Shrines, Rockport Publishers http://www.amazon.com/Making-Shadow-Boxes-Shrines-Cano-Murillo/dp/1564968952/ref=cm_rdp_product_img

EDUCATION

• B.A. Studio Arts, Sculpture: The University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
• MFA; Coursework in Transformative Art: John F. Kennedy University, Berkeley, CA
• Coursework in Art History & Ceramics: Lorenzo de Medici, Florence, Italy

AWARDS

• Selected Inspirational Artist for the International Peace Project Traveling Exhibition, 2011 http://www.thewhole9.com/thepeaceproject-home.php
• Nominated for Oakland Indie Awards 2010
  http://artismoving.blogspot.com/2010/03/viva-la-art-cart.html
• ARTcart grant, Koreatown Northgate, Oakland 2009
• Outstanding Graduate Student of the Year: John F. Kennedy University Graduate Program: Holistic Studies (2008)
• International exposure and sacred site travel includes travel to Peru, Nepal, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Amsterdam, Singapore, France, China, Italy, Ireland, Japan, Guam, Irealnd,Costa Rica, Brazil, Argentina & other places.