Education

2010-2013 University of North Dakota
Master of Fine Arts Degree
Program of Study: Drawing
Expected Completion: May 2013
Grand Forks, North Dakota

2006-2010 University of Tennessee -Chattanooga
Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree
Concentration: Painting and Drawing
Summa Cum Laude
Chattanooga, Tennessee

Professional Experience

2013-2018, Assistant Professor of Digital Multimedia Technology, New Mexico State University-Carlsbad, Carlsbad, New Mexico.

2015-2016, Department Chair of Digital Media, Business, and Computer Science, New Mexico State University-Carlsbad, New Mexico.

2011-2012 Instructor of Record (Graduate Teaching Assistant), University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota.

2011-2012 Graduate Research Assistant for UND Art Collections and Repository, Fall Semester, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota. I helped document, photograph, frame, ship, and install the university’s collections of artwork.

Awards and Grants

2016, Carlsbad 40 Under 40, Carlsbad, New Mexico.

2012 Ethel Harriet and Stella Haugan Scholarship, UND Department of Art and Design, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND.

2009 North Callahan Prize, Humanities and Fine Arts Research and Writing
Competition, $1000 prize. 

Selected Exhibitions (*Solo)

2016 Love Stinks, Knead Full Things Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

2015 Gush! Unseen Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

2015 *Femme Schism: She-Roes Never get the Guy, West End Art Depot, Las Cruces, New Mexico.

2014 *Femme Schism:  Warrior Women Still Love Baking Cakes, ARC Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.

2014 Members & Friends, West End Art Depot, Las Cruces, New Mexico.

2014 This is Personal: Women's Exhibition, Blue Door Gallery, Grand Forks, North Dakota.

2014 *Femme Schism:  The Rise of Confused, Angry, and Hyper-Intelligent Women, Blue Door Gallery, Grand Forks, North Dakota.

2014 *Femme Schism:  Warrior Women Paid Less? A SPACE Studio Art Gallery, Silver City, New Mexico.

2013 Virtual Reality, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, Missouri.

2013 Women in Charge! SOHO20 Chelsea Gallery, New York City, New York.

2013 Heroes Surround Us, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin.

2013 *Femme Schism:  The Rebellion of Feminine Archetypes, Colonel Eugene E. Myers Gallery, Hughes Fine Arts Center, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND.

2013 Exquisite Uterus Project, Red Gym Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison Wisconsin.

2013 Exquisite Uterus Project, Woman Made Gallery (WMG), Chicago, Illinois.

2012 The Exquisite Uterus, “Power, Politics, and Performance,” Steinhilber Art Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin.

2012 Post for Humanity, Art for Humanity, Annex24 Gallery, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

2012 Ka-Pow! Comic Art and Storyboarding, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, Missouri.

2012 Backlash, SOHO20 Chelsea Gallery, New York City, New York.

2012 Wish You Were Here 11, The A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, New York.

2012 8th Annual Ten Second Film Festival, Soap Factory, Minneapolis, Minnesota (1st Place in category, “Eye Candy”).

2012 Seattle Erotic Art Festival, Foundation for Sex Positive Culture, Fremont Studios, Seattle, Washington, June 2012. International juried exhibition. Jurors: Dan Savage, Mistress Matisse, Ellen Forney, Jim Duvall, Daniel McGlothlen.

2012 ASC 2012 Student Show, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota. Student juried exhibition. Juror: Kee-ho-Yuen.

2011 Genus, Species, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, California.

2011 The Sex Issue: Volume 6, Projekt 30, Annual online juried exhibition.

2011 The Fiction Project 2011 Tour, Art House Co-op, Brooklyn, New York.

2011 ASC 2011 Student Show, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota. Student juried exhibition, juror: Brian Finke (Honorable Mention).

2010 BFA Show 2010, Cress Gallery, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, April 13, 2010, Chattanooga, Tennessee.

2010 A Natural Order, Association for the Visual Arts (AVA), Landis Gallery, two-person exhibition for the month of June, Chattanooga, Tennessee.

2010 Take Art, Leave Art II, AVA, Landis Gallery, Chattanooga, Tennessee.

2009 2009 UTC Department of Art Juried Student Exhibition, Cress Gallery, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, Chattanooga, Tennessee. Student, juried exhibition, juror: Amy Pleasant.

2009 April 2009 Show of House of Scratch, Online Gallery. Juried exhibition, jurors: Sean Chappell and Cathrene Gehue.

2009 The American Juried Art Salon Spring and Summer 2009 Show, Online Gallery. Juried exhibition.

2008 October 2008 Show, Three Dogs Gallery, Chattanooga, Tennessee.

2005 Mother-Daughter Student Show, Studio II, Hixson, Tennessee.

2004 Thanksgiving Student Show, Studio II, Hixson, Tennessee.

Visiting Artist Lectures

2015 Intending to be a Woman: A New Mythology of Girlhood as Told by Graphic Novels, Joseph Campbell Roundtable, Chattanooga, Tennessee.

2014 Suffering from Inertia:  Motivating Millennials Through Creativity-Based Teaching Practices, Department of Chemical Engineering (open to the campus), Tennessee Technological University (TTU), Cookeville, Tennessee.

2012 “Laydeez do Comics,” Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco, California.

2012 Brain Discrimination: Deconstructing the Left-Brain/Right-Brain Binary in Higher Education, Lecture for Dr. Pedro Arce’s Chemical Engineering Research Group, Tennessee Technological University (TTU), Cookeville, Tennessee.

2011 Creativity, Context, and Voice: Reinterpreting Intelligence (Incorporating the Hi-PeLE Approach to Learning into the Academic Environment), Lecture for Dr. Pedro Arce’s Chemical Engineering Research Group, Tennessee Technological University (TTU), Cookeville, Tennessee.

Publications

El Paseo Pantera, Cause Vision, Spring 2018

Las Mariposas, Cause Vision, Spring 2016

Phea's Dream, Cause Vision, Fall 2014

"Girl Power Gone Sour:  Issues in Discussing Romantic Love Between Girls in Japanese Comics," International Journal of Comic Art (IJOCA) 15.2 (Fall 2013): 734-742.

Bibliography

S. Derrickson Moore, "Tiffany Pascal Explores Women's Diverse Images in 'FEMME SCHISM,'" Las Cruces Sun News, June 6, 2015.

Tom Spurgeon, "A Few Notes About MIX 2013," The Comics Reporter, September 29, 2013

Rob Larson, "Digital Media Projects to go on Display at Ocotillo," Artesia Daily Press, May 5, 2013

Zachary Schuster, “UND Artist Finally Illustrates Dream,” Dakota Student, December 4, 2012

Paulette Tobin, “Femme Schism: Feminist Art in a Male-Dominated Comic Book World,” Grand Forks Herald, August 31, 2012

Exhibitions Curated

2013 Digital Media Student Exhibition 2013, Ocotillo Performing Arts Center, New Mexico State University-Carlsbad, Artesia, New Mexico.

2012 ASC Student Juried Exhibition 2012, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota. Juror: Kee-ho Yuen.

2012 ASC High School Juried Exhibition 2012, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota.

Conference Presentations

American Society for Engineering Education, 2017, Columbus, Ohio
Paper: "Using Student Developed Comics to Promote Learning of Transport Phenomena Concepts"
(Novel Pedagogical Techniques II: Potpourri​)

Southeastern College Arts Conference, 2013, Greensboro, South Carolina
Paper:   "Girl Power Gone Sour:  Issues in Discussing Romantic Love Between Girls in Japanese Comics" (Queer Gazes:  Power(s) of Looking Through Same Sex Desire)

MIX Comics Symposium, 2013, Columbus, Ohio
Paper:  "Bleak Manhua, Bright Manga:  Subversive Realism in the Work of Hong Kong's Female Comic Book Artists" (Women and Culture in Comics)

International Comic Arts Forum, 2013, Portland, Oregon
Paper:  "Girl Power Gone Sour:  Issues in Discussing Romantic Love Between Girls in Japanese Comics" (Gender and Sexuality:  East and West)

Southeastern College Arts Conference, 2012, Durham, North Carolina
Paper: “Theory in Spandex: the Suppression of the Comic Book as an Art” (Are Comics Art?)

Professional Services

2013-2015, Videographer, New Mexico State University-Carlsbad, Carlsbad, New Mexico.  I help direct, produce, and edit university and program commercials for NMSU-Carlsbad.  

2013-2017, Web Designer, New Mexico State University-Carlsbad, Carlsbad, New Mexico. 

2011-2012 Graduate Faculty Representative, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota. I attended faculty meetings as a representative of the graduate students of the Department of Art & Design.

2011-2012 President of Art Student Collective (ASC), University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota. Student organization in which members organize and curate shows, encourage a community-oriented art department, and assist in developing students’ exhibition records and resumes.

Related Experience

2010-2011 Certified Framer (Production Specialist and Counter and Design Specialist), Michael’s Arts and Crafts, Grand Forks, North Dakota.

2002-2010 Tae Kwon Do Certified Instructor, Mark Johnson’s Tae Kwon Do, Signal Mountain, Tennessee.

Technical Abilities

AfterEffects, Photoshop, Flash, GameMaker, InDesign, Illustrator, Final Cut Pro, Dreamweaver, HTML, CSS
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