Graphic Design

GRAPHIC DESIGNER / ILLUSTRATOR 1996-Present
Gloria Brown Design & Illustration
Monarch CO
Contract graphic design, illustration and computer
production for a diversity of businesses and projects
including advertising, branding, brochures, collateral,
flyers, logos, promotion, publication covers and interiors. Responsible for meetings, agreements, concepts, layout, editing, revisions, and print management.

Clients have included:
About Books, Inc.
Arkansas Valley Art Center
Ash Street Typecrafters
Bureau of Land Management
Chimney Rock Interpretive Association
Concordia Expeditions
Earth Studio Moab
Elsevier Science Publishing
Falcon Publishing
Friends of Native Culture
Greater Arkansas River Nature Association
Hollowtop Outdoor Primitive School
Improve USA
Lily Canyon Books
Moonspiral Press
Conrad Nelson
Rebound Physical Therapy
Salida Community Supported Agriculture
Synchronicity Publishing
Terrasun Architectural Design
U S WEST, Inc.

PUBLICATIONS SPECIALIST 1994–96
Canyonlands Natural History Association
Moab UT
Produced over fifty publications per year from fliers
to 32-page booklets. Responsibilities included design,
editing, illustration, coordination of freelancers and
budget. Liaison with Canyonlands and Arches National Parks, Manti-LaSal U.S.D.A. National Forest Service
and Bureau of Land Management.

PRODUCTION DESIGNER 1986–93
Churchill Livingstone Medical Publisher
New York NY
Book interiors, jackets and production of ten medical
books annually. Responsibilities included design, type
specification, labeling, diagrams and supervision of art
program for clinical, textbooks and journals. Reduced
expenses by introducing computer production
to publications department.

FREELANCE ARTIST 1981–86
Smith Temp, et al
New York NY
Paste-up, mechanicals and illustration for publishing, advertising, corporation and design studios. Sketches, comps, type specification, cast-off, layout, dummying.

Clients included:
American Management Association
Caliber Design Planning
Four Winds Recordings
Gower Medical Publishing
Historic Saranac Lake
Institutional Investor
Melanie Roher Design
Merrill Lynch
Neal–Schuman Publishing
New York Hospital
Prentice–Hall

Interpretive Training

Conference of National Park Cooperating Associations
Exhibitor 2000; Attendee 1996

Interpretive Writing Glen Kaye
Capitol Reef National Park UT 1996

Sustainable Design Christina Watkins
Prescott AZ 1994

Education

Parsons School of Design
San Francisco Art Institute
School of the Chicago Art Institute
School of Visual Arts
Western State College

Illustration

Shanleya’s Quest ©2005
A Botany Adventure for Kids Ages 9 to 99
Hollowtop Outdoor Press, Pony MT
(17 color/12 line art illustrations)

A Naturalist’s Guide to Canyon Country ©2000
by David B. Williams
Falcon/Globe Pequot Press, Guilford CT
(200 color/30 line art illustrations)

The Librarian’s Cookbook ©1989
Neal-Schuman Publishing, New York NY
(16 line art illustrations)

Computer Skills

Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop;
Microsoft Office/Word; QuarkXPress;
Word Perfect; WordPress; 80 wpm

Solo Exhibits

Doors of Saint Elmo
Saint Elmo Days, Saint Elmo CO 2007
Bongo Billy’s Salida Café, Salida CO 2003
Solo watercolors of 1880s mining town with
historical talk. Saint Elmo Days guest artist.

How to Make a Book 2006
Regional Library Children’s Collection, Salida CO
Solo exhibition of “Shanleya’s Quest” production
material visually illustrating bookmaking steps.
Guest professional at Longfellow Elementary
School discussing graphic art jobs.

The Pages Come Alive 2003
Kolb Studio, Grand Canyon National Park
Grand Canyon AZ
Solo exhibit using watercolors from “A Naturalist’s
Guide to Canyon Country” with three-dimensional
displays including an ephemeral pool aquarium and tarantula vivarium illuminating the research process. Presented by the National Park Service.

Independent Videos

Tic
Three minute comedy about a man attaining sole occupation of a coveted Central Park bench by his
nervous tic. (edited in camera; NYU Film School).

Sirens
Five minute video for “Ruby Who In Tubeland” at
Det Lil Teater with choreographers Cher Guertze,
Rhea Lehman and composer Richard Malcolm
(Copenhagen, Denmark).

Balance
Five minute video about gender homogenization and
a tightrope walker (produced in Lake Placid NY).

Board Member

Arkansas Valley Art Center
Buena Vista CO 2004-05

Greater Arkansas River Nature Association
Salida CO 1996-98

Travel

Belgium, Canada, France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Scandinavia, Spain, Switzerland,
United Kingdom, USA