Professional Service

  • Salt Lake City Design Week 2011. Role: Planning/Coordination/Curator. Display Case Coordinator/Curator of 4 cases featuring the work of local Graphic Designers, Interior Designers & Architects featured at the Salt Lake City Library. Planning & coordination of entertainment for opening night Event of Design Week titled: Pixels of Fury Opening. 10/10/2011 - 11/14/2011
  • CREATIVEFORACAUSE.ORG. Role: Case Study Coordinator and Promoter of University of Utah work. Case Study coordinator and promoter of Univ. of Utah student projects created for socially relevant causes. Creative for a Cause is a collaborative resource for educators of Visual Communications who wish to instruct their students on the importance of adopting a social and ethical approach to their work. 09/2010 - 01/2011
  • AIGA Salt Lake City. Role: Portfolio Reviewer. Student Portfolio Reviewer: Design students from Universities statewide and in Idaho present their work at an annual portfolio review by design professionals. 04/2010 - 04/2011
  • AIGA Salt Lake City. Role: Designer, Student Facilitator. AIGA SLC Revinylize project. Worked with the AIGA SLC to brand the revinylize.com project. Facilitator for Revinylize product design prototypes created by the University of Utah Design students. Annually, students engage in brainstorm sessions for new product designs for Revinylize that are sold at various venues in and out of Utah. 08/2009 - 01/2011
  • AIGA Salt Lake City. Role: Designer, Student Facilitator. AIGA SLC Revinylize project. Worked with the AIGA SLC to brand the revinylize.com project. Facilitator for Revinylize product design prototypes created by the University of Utah Design students. Annually, students engage in brainstorm sessions for new product designs for Revinylize that are sold at various venues in and out of Utah. 08/2009 - 01/2011

Internal Service

  • Undergraduate Council Committee. Committee member, 09/16/2021 - 04/21/2022. University service.
  • Career Line Graphic Design Faculty Search Committee member. This includes writing the proposal for a new Career Line faculty member and serving on the search committee. Committee member, 08/27/2021 - 05/31/2022. Department service.
  • Carmen Morton Christensen Visiting Artist Committee Member. 01/01/2016 - 12/31/2016. Department service.
  • Academic Appeals Committee Member and Chair. Chair & Committee Member, 09/07/2015 - 04/29/2019. College service.
  • Undergraduate Sustainability Certificate Advisory Committee. 02/01/2015 - 08/26/2015. University service.
  • Multi-Disciplinary Design Major Advisory Group Member for College of Architecture. Advisor to the development of a new undergraduate major as a vehicle to use product design as a vehicle to investigate design research, human centered design principles, interface development, articulation of product forms, materials and digital manufacturing principles. Advisory Board Member, 02/23/2012 - 02/14/2017. University service.
  • RPT Committee: Annually review all pre-tenure faculty members in the Department of Art & Art History. Committee member, 01/2012 - present. Department service.
  • Council of Dee Fellows Chair Person. Responsible for allocating financial grants to persons with outstanding proposals to improve the quality of teaching and education in the College of Fine Arts and Humanities, includes planning Dee Reception. Committee member and proposal reviewer, 04/23/2010 - 06/2013. College service.
  • Graphic Design Program Internship Coordinator. In charge of building and maintaining relationships with Internship companies in Utah. In coordination with Ray Morales, also responsible for approving all Graphic Design students internships. This includes mentoring and assisting students with obtaining internships. Coordinator, 09/2005 - present. Department service.
  • Graphic Design Program Advisory Committee. Chair, 08/1999 - present. Department service.

Community Partnership

  • Project Youth Workshop - fifth and sixth graders from Title 1 elementary schools in the Salt Lake Valley experience what it's like to be a college student at the University of Utah. Students will attended a workshop offered by the Graphic Design Program. 04/24/2019 - 04/24/2019
  • Salt Lake Community College Graphic Communications Program - recruitment and establishing transfer pathways AAS degree bearing students to finish BFA in Graphic Design at the U of U. 11/09/2018 - 02/28/2020
  • Salt Lake Design Week Planning Committee. 06/01/2012 - 10/28/2012

Outreach

  • Women's Artistic Leadership Initiative Benefit. 10/15/2019 - 10/15/2019
  • 2018 The Childrens Center. Role: designer. Concept/design and production of Annual Gala fundraiser promotion. 01/03/2018 - 06/06/2018

Honors & Awards

  • Recipient of the Utah Artist Fellowship, a $5,000 unrestricted award that is annually awarded six visual artists from Utah that demonstrate exceptional creativity in their fields. The 2022 visual arts fellows were elected by Allison Glen, a nationally renowned art curator and writer. Utah Division of Arts & Museums 2022 Utah Arts Fellowship, 05/02/2022
  • International Design Award Recipient Awarded project: Chew This, How International Design Awards, Featured Issue: Spring 2017. How Magazine , 03/21/2017
  • Design Arts Utah 2016 Award Recipient. Awarded project: Wisdom Chair & Stooble. Juror: James Childress, Chair of AIA Committee on Design. Utah Division of Arts & Museum’s Design Arts Program, 08/01/2016
  • CELEBRATE U. A SHOWCASE OF EXTRAORDINARY FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS. University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library and the Office of the Vice President for Research, 03/09/2016
  • Annual 100 Show honoree, the Region's most prestigious juried design competition for creative direction and design of the Exploring Sustainability Exhibit at the UMFA, featuring student work from the University of Utah. AIGA Salt Lake City, 05/17/2014
  • Annual 100 Show Copper Ingot Winner (one in 10 best in show), the Region's most prestigious juried design competition for design of the AIGA Deseret Tarot Cards in collaboration with Dan Christofferson. AIGA Salt Lake City, 06/2012
  • Annual 100 Show honoree, the Region's most prestigious juried design competition for creation and design of the Sketch School Zine. AIGA Salt Lake City , 06/2012
  • Featured as an international award winner for the creation and design of the Sketch School Zine Project for the University of Utah. Featured in How Magazine's March 2012 International Annual. HOW Magazine, 03/2012
  • International Design Award Recipient. How Magazine, 11/2011
  • Cause Affect Award Recipient: a biennial, international design competition celebrating the work of designers who positively impact society. AIGA San Francisco, AIGA National Design Archives, 10/2011
  • Design Arts Utah 2011 Award Recipient. Utah Division of Arts & Museum's Design Arts Program, 06/2011
  • Print Regional Design Annual Winner. Print Magazine, 12/2010
  • 100 Show Design Gala, Copper Ingot, Best in Show, Award . AIGA Salt Lake City, 05/2010
  • Dee Fellow. College of Fine Arts and Humanities Council of Dee Fellows , 04/23/2010
  • 39th Annual Design Competition, 2009. UCDA, University College and Designers Association, 08/01/2009

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