RESUME
Responsible for teaching painting portraits, intermediate drawing and cartooning classes for adults
6/2004 - 7/2005 Instructor, College for Kids, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, MI, USA
Responsible for teaching painting, drawing, cartooning and web design classes for kids ages 8-18
4/2003 - 8/2003 Instructor, Midland Center for the Arts, Midland, MI, USA
Responsible for teaching painting, drawing, cartooning and art in the garden classes ages 7-14
1/2003 - 4/2003 Instructor, Art Reach of Mid Michigan, MI, USA
Responsible for teaching watercolor class
8/2002 - 5/2003 Adjunct Faculty, Mid Michigan Community College, MI, USA
Responsible for teaching introductory drawing classes and interactive design workshops
1/1999 - 5/2002 Instructor of Record, Central Michigan University, MI, USA
Responsible for teaching introductory drawing classes, substitute 2d design
1/1996 - 6/1996 Art Teacher, V. Blagoeva School, V. Turnovo, Bulgaria
Organizing the class and giving projects
1994 - 1995 Graphic designer, Brianston Design, Johannesburg, South Africa
Producing original package design including original art work
1993 - 1994 Graphic designer, Bulgarian farmers union, Bulgaria
Designing brochures, templates and logos
1988 - 1989 Assistant photographer, Bulgarian Photography AD, Bulgaria
Education
2002 M.F.A Painting/ Drawing, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI
Theses and Theses exhibition “Self- Portrait” paintings, drawings and interactive design projects
1996 M.A Art Education, St.Cyril and Methodius University, V.Turnovo
Pedagogic of education in Fine Art, specialization Painting, Second specialty “Aesthetics”,
additional second specialty Advertisement and marketing
Grants/ Fellowships (Awards/Honors, etc)
2003 Best 2-D award, Faces of Woman, 13th Annual National Juried Art,
Exhibition, Las Vegas Arts Council, Las Vegas, NM
1999- 2002 Graduate teaching assistant, Central Michigan University, MI
1999 Diploma and membership National Society of College Scholars
Indicating Outstanding Scholarship, leadership and service)
1998 Research grant for project in painting Central Michigan University,
Mount Pleasant, MI
1995 First prize Annual student exhibition, juried, University Art Gallery
V.Turnovo, Bulgaria
1992-1996 Full tuition Fellowship, St.Cyril and Metody University, V.
Turnovo, Bulgaria
Memberships
The National Women’s Caucus for Art
Michigan Women’s Art Caucus
Traverse City Art Center
Exhibition Record
8/2006 Solo exhibition, Traverse City Library, Traverse city, MI
6/2006 National Juried Plain air Exhibition, Crooked Tree Art Center, Petoskey, MI
6/2006 D’ Art for Art 2006, Brek-N-Ridge Farms, Harbor Springs, MI
5/2006 78th Annual International Juried Exhibition, Art Association of Harrisburg, Harrisburg, PA
(Juror Kathryn Calley Galitz, assistant Curator Metropolitan Museum of Art)
5/2006 Getaway to Imagination, Juried exhibition (slides selection), Farmington Museum,
Farmington, NM
4/2006 Aloha spirit of Islands, Art Center, Traverse City, MI
1/2006 National Juried exhibition, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA
2005 Juried exhibition, Traverse City Art Center, MI
(Juror Don Desmett, Director of Collections and Exhibitions at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts)
2005 Group exhibition , Traverse City Library, Traverse City , Mi
2005 Faculty exhibition, Traverse City Art Center, Traverse City, MI
2004 Leelanau Community Cultural Center, L eland, MI
2004 34th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Traverse City Chamber of Commerce, Traverse City, MI
2004 Faculty/Student exhibition, Traverse City Art Center, Traverse City, MI
2003 Faculty exhibition, Midland Center for the Arts, Midland, MI
2003 Faces of Woman, 13th Annual National Juried Art Exhibition, Las Vegas, NM
(Juror Laura Addison Curator of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts in
Santa Fe) winning best 2-D artwork award
2003 Michigan Fine Arts Competition, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center,
Birmingham, MI (juried exhibition, Juror noted artist Richard Nonas)
2002 MFA Exhibition, CMU Art Gallery, Mount Pleasant, MI
2002 Faculty exhibition, CMU Art Gallery, Mount Pleasant, MI
2001 Solo exhibition, Multicultural Center CMU Mt. Pleasant, MI
2001 International Expo CMU, Mt. Pleasant, MI
2001 Solo exhibition, Art Reach, Mount Pleasant, MI
2000 Faculty exhibition, CMU Art Gallery, Mount Pleasant, MI
1999 Faculty exhibition, CMU Art Gallery, Mount Pleasant, MI
1999 Student competition, Northwood Gallery, Midland MI
1998 Graduate student exhibition, CMU Art Gallery, Mount Pleasant, MI
1997 Group Exhibition St. Cyril and Methodius Foundation, Sofia, Bulgaria
1996 MA exhibition University Art Gallery, V.Turnovo, Bulgaria
1995 Annual Student Exhibition (juried), V.Turnovo, Bulgaria
1994 University Illustration Competition, V. Turnovo, Bulgaria
1994 Annual Student Exhibition, V. Turnovo, Bulgaria
1994 National Poster Competition (juried), Bulgaria
1993 Poster Competition (juried) Arthritis Foundation, Johannesburg, South Africa
1992 Annual Student Exhibition V.Turnovo, Bulgaria, University Portrait Competition
Bibliography
2001 Morning Sun, Exhibition Review
2001 CMU Life, Tisheva at Art Reach
2000 Morning Sun, Art Reach gears up for 20th Anniversary 12.26.00
1998 Art Bulletin, Grant announcement, CMU Mount Pleasant MI
Technical
abilities
Working with Adobe Photoshop CS, QuarkXPress, Adobe Illustrator, iMovie, Page
Maker, Macromedia Flash, Macromedia Director, Adobe Acrobat, Dream weaver,
GoLive CS, Java script, HTML, Lingo on Macintosh and IBM platforms
Painting with oil, acrylic, watercolor and gouache.
Drawing with pencil, charcoal, pastel and ink.
Etching, screen-printing, monotype and woodcut
Other
activities
2001 published movie review – “Heartbreakers’ review wins
weekly award” by E.
Tisheva, LIFE Guest Writer, CMU Life, Mt. Pleasant, MI
1997 Discussing of own art work in front of members of United Methodist Church,
FL
Web sites
http://www.elliehayes.com