TEACHING, LECTURES, WORKSHOPS
2010
Visiting Artist, St. Mary's College, Orinda, CA.
2009
"Sculpture in Felted Wool," Workshop at Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina.
Panelist, " Art and Human Rights: Reflections on Fernando Botero and The Abu Ghraib Series," Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA.
Drawing and Bookmaking Workshops, the American Centers of the US Embassy, Rangoon and Mandalay, Burma.
"Sculpture in Felted Wool" Workshop at Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC.
1997 - Present
Professor, Pixar University, Pixar Animation Studios, Emeryville, CA.
2001 - 2008
Assistant Professor, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
2008
"Under the Wire: Artists in Burma," Paper Presented at "Places at the Table: Asian Women Artists and Gender Dynamics" Symposium, University of California Berkeley.
Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Fine Art, John F. Kennedy University, Berkeley, CA.
"Art as Advocacy and Restoration in the former Yugoslavia and Burma," Paper Presented, "Persons of Interest" Panel, 2008 Conference of the College
Art Association, Dallas, TX.
Lectures and Workshop, "Building Civil Society: Health, Communication, Art and Culture," American Center, the United States Embassy, Rangoon, Burma
2007
Panelist, "Human Rights and Academic Repression" Symposium, Scholars at Risk Network, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
Guest Lecturer, "Justice and Accountability in Times of War, Genocide and Terrorism," Seminar The Human Rights Center, Berkeley, CA.
2006
Guest Artist and Professor, the Jilin School of Animation, the Jilin Academy of Art, Changchun, China.
Lecture, American Center for the Arts, the United States Embassy, Rangoon, Burma.
2005
Guest Artist and Workshops, Department of Visual Art, Beihang University, Beijing, China
Guest Artist, Der Jiang University, Shanghai, China
Visiting Scholar, College of Arts and Humanities, University of Tokyo, Komaba.
2004
Dorothy Liskey Wampler Eminent Professor for 2004, lectures and Workshops, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA.
Speaker, Careers Panel, Center for Talented Youth, Campus of the USF.
Workshop, Summer Institute, Southeast Asian Student Coalition, University of California, Berkeley.
Workshop, Summer Institute, Southeast Asian Student Coalition, University of California, Berkeley.
2003
Sculpture Workshop, Sculpture Department, University of California
2001
Paper Presented, 6th International Conference for Health and Human Rights, Cavtat, Croatia.
Guest Artist, Laney College, Oakland, CA.
Guest Lecturer, "Documenting War: Field Methodologies in Historical Context," The Human Rights Center, Berkeley, CA.
2001
Guest Lecturer, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
2000 - 2003
Adjunct Professor, California College of the Arts, Oakland and San Francisco, CA.
1999
Visiting Artist, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.
Wood Sculpture Workshop, Sculpture Department, University of California, Berkeley.
1997 - 2000
Visiting Artist, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA.
1995
Visiting Artist, "Clay Sculpture "New England Arts and Crafts Program, Williamsburg, MA.
1994 - 1996
Visiting Professor, The Experimental College, Tufts University, Medford, MA.
1996
Artist/Instructor, Elderhostel, Williamsburg, MA.
1994
Visiting Artist and Guest Lecturer, State University of New York, Fredonia, NY.
1986 - 1993
Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.
1993
Panelist, "Art and Peacemaking," Special Topics Seminar Series, Peace and Justice Studies, Tufts University, Medford, MA.
"What Is Art?" Lecture Series at the Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA.
Visiting Artist, Department of Visual Art, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
1992
Visiting Artist, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
1991
Lecture, Jones Troyer Fitzpatrick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Lecture, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
1990
Visiting Artist, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y.
Lecture presented at Munson-Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, New York.
1989
Lecture, presented to L'Associazione di Cultura e di Studio Italo-Americana, at The Johns Hopkins University Bologna Center, Bologna, Italy.
Lecture presented to Washington Sculptor's Group, Washington, D.C.
1988
Visiting Artist, West Virginia University, and Morgantown, West Virginia.
1987
Visiting Artist, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y.
1985
Juror, the 1986 Exhibition, Beaumont Art League, Beaumont, Texas.
Panelist, "Is There Life After Art School?," Art Survival Workshop Series, the Lawndale Art Annex of the University of Houston, Houston, TX.
Visiting Artist, Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, TX.
Visiting Artist, Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas.
Visiting Artist, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.