Credits
Writing Credits
Contributing Writer, Creative
Child Magazine 1999
Contributing Editor and Writer, Arts and Culture page, Valley
Scene 2004
Op-Ed, Los
Angeles Times 8/00
Contributing Editor, Creative
Line 2001
Contributing Writer Editor, Arts
and Activities 2004
Op-Ed Los
Angeles Times 9/03
Op-Ed, Daily
News 9/06
Op-Ed,
Daily News 3/07
Writer and
Editor, Valley
Arts, 2008
to present
Feature
article in Daily
News,
1/09
Contributing Writer Editor, Arts
and Activities Magazine 2010
Writer of own blogs, Arts and Education, musthaveart.blogspot.com and highdeductibles.blogspot.com
Interviews
PoliticsNation, MSNBC, December 2011
Vivian
Porter’s “What’s Happening” show KRTH radio 2/04
Guest on
Local Edition, CNN, TV 3/07
KRTH Radio
3/07
KBIG Radio
3/07
KDisney
Radio 3/07
The Wave
Radio 3/07
ESPN Radio
3/07
Guest on
KCET PBS TV show, “A Place of Our Own” 2007
Spotlight
on the Community KABC and KLOS Radio 2/09
Guest on Time Warner Local Edition, CNN Headline News TV 2/09
Time Warner’s SoCal News/CNN Headline News TV 2/09
OnPoint News show CSUN 2009 (search on Youtube – 3 parts)
KDIS and
ESPN radio 3/10
KIIS radio 3/10
Freelance Artist 1975 - present
Designed
album cover for the Reggie Rydell Band
Designed
logo and all t-shirt, menus, brochure, itineraries, vouchers, and mail
order catalogues for Caribbean resorts, CVI Group, Cancun, Mexico and
Belize
Designed
t-shirt and mug for Joe Farrell’s Musician Group
Designed
computer graphics for Voice Learning Systems, US, Japan and Germany
Artist
rendering police sketch for TV movie, “Baby Snatcher”
Muralist
for the Mann Theatre in Glendale, Vanalden Elementary, Melvin
Elementary, private homes
Curator
1999-present
Annual
Valley Wide Student Art Show, Arts in Education Aid Council – an event
for public schools that has grown so much in the past ten years that it
evolved into an all day family arts festival at the Chatsworth Train
Depot. Over 5,000 people attended in 2010. Recruited schools, raised
the funds through advertising in the show program, direct donations,
neighborhood councils, city council members, and in kind donations.
Oversaw 100 volunteers to organize, set up, hang show, serve food,
conduct art workshops, and tear down event. Created the show program.
Did all of the marketing and publicity. Also produced the performing
arts festival where school bands, individual performers, dance groups
performed on stage all day.
Teen
Annual Valley Wide Student Art Show, Arts in Education Aid Council –
separate from the family arts festival, this show is for serious art
students in middle and high schools. Three different scholarships from
three different art schools are awarded to ribbon winners. Hire local
teen bands who played original music to play the receptions.
Art
teachers art show. Oversaw two shows for LAUSD middle and high school
art teachers (at Valley Art Institute and the Armory in Pasadena).
McGraw-Hill/Glencoe, quarterly art shows of middle and high schools.
Responsible for recruiting, mounting, labeling and cataloguing each
show. Glencoe chose one piece from each show to purchase and frame for
their permanent student art collection.
VAST
(Valley Artists Studio Tour). Modeled after the very successful studio
tour in Ojai Valley, we created a tour for San Fernando Valley artists.
Proceeds from ticket sales went to benefit arts education programs.
Cartoonist
1984-present
Owner and
operator of own greeting card company and self syndicated cartoonist.
Comic books, calendars, T-Shirts, mugs, buttons, greeting cards. Comic
strips include “Bill’s Friends,” “Pregnant and Paranoid,” “Spike and Mic”,
“Addicted Society,” “P.S. I’m a Girl,” “Father Time”, “ART”, and “Road
Trip”.
Teaching Experience
Mama
Spikeala’s Art School 1998-2003 (owned art school run out of studio)
Los
Angeles County Museum of Art 2006 & 2007
The
Atelier, Chatsworth, CA cartooning class to children ages 10-12
Vanalden
Elementary, grades 1-4, 2001 – 2004
Nonprofit Experience
Founder
and Executive Director of Arts in Education Aid Council, a nonprofit
organization that is restoring the arts to public schools of the San
Fernando Valley, one school at a time. Oversee staff, volunteers,
fundraising, public relations and events (annual arts festivals,
quarterly public meetings, Arts Education Town Hall in 2007 where 150
arts education leaders from throughout the L.A. area attended, Mayor
Antonio Villaraigosa delivered opening remarks). In depth board
training. Served as President of the San Fernando Valley Arts Council
for one year, promoting the arts in the San Fernando Valley by bringing
various artists, arts activists, businesses, schools, and community
members together through various networking meetings and events.
Provided support to local schools for arts programming. Produced valley
arts festivals. Also served on various other local nonprofit boards
(PTA and arts clubs and organizations).
Spike was honored to be selected to serve as a “Community Champion” by the Annenberg Foundation’s Alchemy Leadership Training Program.