CV
EDUCATION
2023
Johns Hopkins University, Whiting School of Engineering
- Post-graduate hours/ continuing education, Data Science
Cal-Arts
- Post-graduate hours/ continuing education, UI/UX
2008
The University of North Texas
- Post-graduate hours toward earning a Ph.D. in Art Education
2001
The University of Tulsa
- MFA
1997
The University of Tulsa
- BFA
COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT IN THE VISUAL ARTS
2017-2020
- Worked as a Humanities/ English instructor and Art Club facilitator at Crossover Preparatory Academy in Tulsa, Oklahoma, an all-boys private school in north Tulsa, where I taught a socially engaged and augmented Humanities and English curriculum, and sponsored/ facilitated Art Club, exposing young men to the visual arts in socially relevant and inclusive ways (ages 6th grade through 9th grade)
2005-2017
- Worked as an instructor/ guide on trips to the local area and national museums and galleries as an instructor at TCA and Mountainview
- Directing, curating, photographing (documenting/cataloging), and assisting with the installation of various types of student exhibits/ gallery space management, TAG Gallery, Trinity Christian Academy, Addison, TX
2004-2017
- Faculty/ Student Art Retreat, a student enrichment event involving various group/ community art projects, shared between advanced students and art faculty, Texas Trinity Christian Academy, Addison Texas
2013
- “Artist David Connolly Talks with Wrongfully Accused”; an event meant to educate and draw awareness to social injustice, and the work was done on the behalf of social justice for the Wrongfully Accused in Dallas, South Dallas Cultural Center, Dallas Texas
2008
- Volunteer Art Direction/ Participant in Mural Painting, School for Orphans, Volta Region, Ghana, Africa
2007
- Volunteer Art Direction/ Participant in Mural Painting, School for the Physically Disabled, Machakos, Kenya
WORK/ TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2020 – Present
9b (Tulsa, OK)
- Director of Art and Design
- Consult on all visualizations (Power BI/ Tableau)
- Custom art, illustration, layout, and print design
- Documentation and technical writing
- Evergreen posting, social media
- Copy editing
- UX/UI
- Sales, marketing
2017 – Present
Crossover Preparatory Academy (Tulsa, OK)
- US/MS English Language Arts, Literature and Humanities
2006 – Present
Mountainview College (Dallas College, Mountainview Campus, Dallas, TX)
- ARTS 1301-6412
- Art Appreciation online with an emphasis on political art/ contemporary art
- ARTS-1301-6250 Art Appreciation (Museum Studies)
- ARTS-1301-6501 Art Appreciation (Lecture)
- ARTS-1303-6501 Art Survey
- ARTS 1304 Survey of Art History
- ARTS-1311-6001 2D Design
- ARTS 1316 Drawing I
- ARTS 1317 Drawing II
- ARTS 2316 Painting I
- ARTS 2317 Painting II
- Arts 2316. Emphasis is on individual expression. (2 Lecture, 4 Lab.)
2002 – 2018
Trinity Christian Academy (Addison, TX)
- Full-Time Art Instructor
- Studio Art
- Drawing I
- Drawing II
- Painting I
- Painting II
- Photography
- Video Animation
- Thesis exhibition (co-teach with Department Head)
- Documentary Video
- Film studies/ appreciation
1998 – 2001
The University of Tulsa (Tulsa, OK)
- Graduate/ Teaching Assistant
- Assisting professors Chuck Tomlins and Virgil Lampton
- Slide/copy work
- Lecture and instruction, grading and critiquing
- 2D Foundations/ Design, Sculpture
1998 – 2001
Hale High School (Tulsa, OK)
- Visiting Art Instructor
- 2D Design
- Foundations
1996 – 1997
Greenwood Cultural Center (Tulsa, OK)
- Visiting Photography Instructor
SOLO/TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2020
- Elegy to Langston Hughes, Let America Be America Again, Friends & Family Exhibition: 9b, Tulsa, Oklahoma
2018
- Family Ties, Jon Millet + David Connolly, Mary Tomas Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2014
- Liminal Space, The Davis Foundry Gallery, Dallas Texas
2013
- Spirit Birds, Arthello Beck Gallery, South Dallas Cultural Center, Dallas Texas
2011
- Texas Gladiators Wright Gallery, College Station Texas
2007
- America Series La Misha, McKinney Texas
2006
- America Series Chèvres, Belgium
2005
- Tall American Tales. Premium Goods, Houston Texas
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
- Alumni Exhibition: TAG, Addison, Texas
2018
- Back Gallery 6th Annual Portrait Show: Cameron Studios, Tulsa, Oklahoma
2017
- Art Alumni Exhibition, TAG, Addison Texas
2016
- Faculty Show TAG, Addison Texas
2015
- Ancestry, TAG, Addison Texas
2014
- Group Show, 500X Gallery, Dallas Texas
- Faculty Show, Cliff Gallery, Dallas Texas
2013
- Cut and Paste, Mary Tomas Gallery, Dallas Texas
- Us, Cliff Gallery, Dallas Texas
2012
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: A Response by African-American Artists, Cliff Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2011
- Extra-Curricular, Mary Tomas Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2010
- Faculty Show, Kiva Gallery, Dallas, Texas
- Tactile. Brazos Gallery, Richardson, Texas
2009
- Art for Orphans Art Auction benefiting the children of the Springs of Hope Orphanage, Machakos, Kenya, Trinity Christian Academy, Addison, Texas
- Faculty Invitational Art Show, Episcopal School of Dallas, Dallas Texas
2008
- Mi Casa Su Casa. Kiva Gallery, Dallas, Texas
- Saturday Night Fever. 500x Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2005
- San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas
2004
- Faculty Show. Trinity Christian Academy, Addison Texas
2001
- Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, Texas
SELECTED GUEST EVENTS/ WORKSHOPS/ TALKS
2013
- Spirit Birds, Arthello Beck Gallery, South Dallas Cultural Center, Dallas Texas
2012
- Get Your Toes Wet. Collaborative Event, Dallas Texas
2011
- Texas A&M, Artist Talk and collaborative art event, College Station, Texas
- Mesquite Community Arts Center: Artist Talk, Mesquite, Texas
2010
- Richland College: Artist Talk, Richardson, Texas
- Mountainview College: Artist Talk, Dallas, Texas
2008
- Trinity Christian Academy Fundraiser guest speaker, Student Tuition Aid Endowment, Addison, Texas
2000
- University of Tulsa: Special Lecture on African American Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma
1998
- Visiting artist Lloyd Menard of Frogman’s Press at the University of Tulsa Printmaking Workshop, assisted the artist with printing demonstrations, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma
1996
- Greenwood Cultural Center Special Programs Photography Course, providing instruction as a part of a creative community outreach initiative, Tulsa, Oklahoma
GRADUATE/TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIP
2001-1998
- The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma
References
- Available upon request.