BONITA COHN email: anagama_mama<>yahoo.com OBJECTIVE: a position using my skills in production and education for web development, photography, ceramics, web graphics, and digital imaging. SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS: Bonita Cohn is an accomplished artist in ceramics and photography. An art teacher for many years, she has added web design to her portfolio of skills for use on the job. Punctual, hard working, reliable, communicative, quick witted, friendly, project-oriented team player. Bonita has the natural fluency of a writer and the visual and spatial strengths of an artist. TECHNICAL SKILLS: Proficient on both MAC and PC in HTML hand coding, Dreamweaver, PhotoShop, Flash, Quark Xpress, Illustrator, Word, Style Sheets (CSS), Javascript Basics, BBEdit, Homesite. Photography film and digital. Post production in Photoshop CS. Digital Photo Restoration. Hi-resolution Images archived on CD to specifications. CURRENT PROJECTS: 2003 Crissy Field Center :http://www.crissyfield.org/center/summer.html 2002 Developed and maintain website for Home Sweet Home Care, http://www.eldercarexperts.com, and "http://wwww.staciabrady.com" for artist Stacia Brady. Ongoing: Quarterly Newsletter "Studio News" for Baulines Craft Guild Ongoing: Developed and maintain website for the Baulines Craft Guild: http://www.baulinescraftguild.org Developed website for California Design: http://www.baulinescraftguild.org/cd2002.htm Developed website for my Ceramics: http://www.bonitacohn.com/anagama Developed a site featuring my trip to Japan: http://www.bonitacohn.com/anagama/aomori.htm PORTFOLIO http://www.bonitacohn.com TEACHING SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY, Visiting artist AOMORI WOODFIRE FESTIVAL, Goshogowara, Japan. Invited presenter - gave a Lecture and workshop, August 2002. RUBY'S CLAY STUDIO, San Francisco. Workshops. Lectures. SAN FRANCISCO JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER, studio manager, AS THE WHEEL TURNS. DEYOUNG MUSEUM, Youth Arts Festival, Ceramics 1995. DOELGER CENTER, Daly City Parks and Recreation, Ceramics. LIVE OAK SCHOOL, San Francisco, Ca. 1993. ceramics. SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY 1990, visiting artist. SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE, San Francisco, CA. Summer Extension, Intro to B&W Photography. Women's Perspectives in Photography, Graduate Graduate Teaching Assistant to Jerry Burchard. EDUCATION: MEDIALINK 2002. Web Design and New Media, Advanced Web Design. BAVC MEDIA ALLIANCE, 2001. HTML, Dreamweaver, Photoshop ICDA 2001. Quark Express SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE, MFA 1985, BFA 1982, Photography and Ceramics UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, Amherst, BFA 1970, Art Education additional studies: COLLEGE OF MARIN, Kentfield, CA , 1977 ALFRED UNIVERSITY, Alfred, NY, 1972, MARYLAND INSTITUTE, Baltimore, MD 1971 PHOTOGRAPHY WORK: "Camera Girl" - Fairmont Hotel, Finnocchio's, Hilton. Hotel Photographer 3 years. William Porter Architectural Photography: Assistant 3 years. Freelance: Weddings and art/tabletop. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS: Baulines Crafts Guild, Association of California Clay and Glass Artists (ACGA) EXHIBITIONS: ONE OF A KIND. 600 Townsend, SF CA. 2003. THE ENDURING HAND, BCG Master Annual, 600 Townsend, SF. 2003. AOMORI INTERNATIONAL WOODFIRE FESTIVAL, Japan, August 2002. BOLINAS MUSEUM, FALKIRK CULTURAL CENTER: 30 years of the Baulines Crafts Guild, June-August 2002 MUSEUM OF CRAFT AND FOLK ART, Showcase, San Francisco, December 2002, 2001, '00 FEATS OF CLAY, Gladding McBean, Lincoln CA. May 2000 OUT OF THE FIRE solo exhibit, Branson Gallery, Ross, CA. April 2000 CALIFORNIA DESIGN 2002, 2000, Contract Design Center, San Francisco. DIFFERENT STOKES, International Juried Woodfire Exhibition, Iowa City, 1999. BON BON GOES TO OBON, PERSONAL ARCHAEOLOGY, DANCES WITH FIRE, THE RETURN OF ANAGAMA MAMA, photography and ceramics, Ruby's Clay Studio, SFCA, '02, '01, '00, '99. PACIFIC TIDES: Influence of the Pacific Rim on American Ceramics, Lancaster, PA. June-July 1999 SPARKS OF LIFE, photography, ANAGAMA FIRED CERAMICS, Marin Technology, San Rafael June '99 TEA BOWL INVITATIONAL, San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum, Ft, Mason, SF CA 1998 MASTER AND APPRENTICE ANNUAL. CCCA. San Rafael, Ca. 1998-2001 CALIFORNIA CLAY COMPETITION, Artery, Davis, '98, 96, '95 CLAY/GLASS, ACGA. Association of California Ceramic Artists and Glassblowers. Palo Alto , Marin Center, Ft. Mason, and S F Hall of Flowers. Annually since 1980 DANCES WITH FIRE, solo photography and ceramics, Ruby's Clay Studio, San Francisco, CA 1998 CELEBRATION OF CRAFTSWOMEN, Ft. Mason, San Francisco 1995 CONTEMPORARY CRAFTS MARKET, Roy Helms, Ft. Mason, San Francisco 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001 OAKLAND MUSEUM, Collectors Gallery, ACCA in the Gardens, 1996 NORTHWEST WOODFIRE, Gallery at Salishan, Gleneden Bch, Oregon, 1997 HIKARIGAMA, ILLUMINATED KILN, Solo photography, accompanied group ceramics show, Umpqua Valley Arts, Roseburg, OR 1997 PUBLICATIONS: "Making it In Clay," Speight and Toki, kiln photo page 189 "Technical Ceramics" in Greece, Feature Article on Bonita Cohn A New View of Matter, ruth weiss, photo, and, "Czech Musik" photo CreamPuff Magazine, featured in "A visit with Artvark" Claytimes , Review, ACGA Palo Alto Clay/Glass Festival Ceramics Monthly, Up Front, Northwest Woodfire Ceramics Monthly, Dec. '96 Photograph-"The Kiln That Consumed Elkton" American Craft Magazine, Photograph, p.18, September '97