Resume
EDUCATION
2015 200 Hours Hot Power Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Certification Fred Busch ,
Miami, Florida .
2011-Present Bakehouse Artist Complex, Drawing and Painting, Miami, Florida,
sight size, Oliver Casse.
2011 Summer, Art Students League, New York, New York, Leonid Gervits, and
Oldrich Teply
2011 Winter, Art Students League, New York, New York, Michael Grimaldi,
Thomas Torak, and Costa Vavagiakis.
2011 Bake house , Drawing and Painting, Miami, Florida, site size, Oliver Casse.
2004 University of Miami, Summer Arts Institute, Video and Film
Graduate Class.
2003 Completed 40 credits in graduate work M.F.A. Florida International
University
2000 University of Miami, Summer Arts Institute, Photoshop and Book Making
Graduate Class.
1995 Professional Five Year Teacher Certificate Art K-12 expires June 2010.
1990 Florida International University, Bachelors of Fine Art majoring in
Drawing and Painting.
1984 Miami Dade Community College (North Campus), A.A. Degree in Fine
Arts.
EXPERIENCE
2006 - Present Art Teacher for Dr. Michael Krop Senior High, Art 1, Drawing and
Painting 9-12. Regular and Magnet.
Yoga Teacher , Karma Yoga , Sundays 6:30pm , North ocean Drive and
Perry street, Dania, Florida .
2005-2006 Art Teacher for Miami Norland Senior High School, Art,
Graphic Arts, Drawing and Painting and Advanced Placement Studio Art
Grades 9-12.
1997-2004 Art Teacher for Miami Norland Senior High School, Art, Drawing and
Painting Grades 9-12.
1998- 2004 Art Teacher for Miami Norland Senior High School Grades 9-12,
Drawing and Painting and Graphic Design Teacher for the Travel and
Tourism Magnet Program.
1999-2000 Head of the Art Department at Miami Norland Senior High and
Graphic Design Teacher for the Travel and Tourism Magnet Program.
1992-1997 Art Teacher for North Dade Middle School grades 6-8, and L.I.F.E.
Program.
1991-1993 Art Instructor for Miami Beach Adult Community and Education
Center: Teaching Painting, Drawing, Watercolor, Portraiture and Advance
Media, High School Completion and Senior citizens.
1993 Art Instructor for North Miami Senior High Adult Education; Teaching
Painting, Various ages.
1991-1992 Art Instructor for Key Biscayne Community School: Teaching Painting
and Creative Arts to age
GRANTS / AWARDS
2014 Florida Art Educators Association Member Virtual Exhibition Award,
Daytona, Florida.
2013 Scholarship to attend the Portrait Society of America The Art of Portrait
Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.
Ruth Katzman Scholarship recipient for the Artist-in-Residency (A-I-R)
Program at The Vytlacil Campus of The Art Students League of New York.
2012 Best in Show Art Teachers Exhibition, Jerrys Artarama, Miami, Florida.
Tiger Tail Productions, Grant to attend New York Art Students League,
Drawing and Painting with Michael Grimaldi.
Surdna Foundation Finalist, New York, New York.
2011 Ruth Katzman Scholarship recipient for the Artist-in-Residency (A-I-R)
Program at The Vytlacil Campus of The Art Students League of New York.
Best in Show, CQ Gallery, Small Works Juried Show, Dade Art Educators
Exhibition, Miami, Florida.
Honorable Mention, Miami International University, Where’s It AT Juried
Show, Dade Art Educators Exhibition, Miami, Florida.
2011 Artist in Residency, the Vytlacil Campus Artist-in-Residence Program
The Hope Floats, Saint Stevens Church, Coral Gables, Florida.
Sketchbook Project, Brooklyn Art Library Traveling Art Exhibition, New
York, New York.
2010 Surdna Foundation Finalist, New York, New York.
2009 Tiger Tail Productions, Grant to attend Master Series Workshop , Steven
Assael, Miami, Florida.
2008 First Place, 100% Pure Exhibition, Fifth Avenue Gallery, Mark Mittleman,
Melborne, Florida.
2008 Honorable Mention, Dade Art Educators exhibition, Miami Dade College,
Juried Exhibition.
2006 Honorable Mention, Palm Beach Community College, Dario Gallery,
2nd Annual Drawing, Painting, Print Making Exhibition, Palm Beach
County, Florida.
2005 New Art International, Accepted into the Inclusion in 2006 New Art
International, Book Art Publisher.
2003 The Bellinger Memorial Award, Chautauqua Institution, 46th National
Exhibition of American Art, Chautauqua, New York.
2002 George Sugarman Foundation, Inc. Grant recipient, Novato, California.
Butt Stop Public Art, Springfield Massachusetts Business
Improvement District, Springfield, Massachusetts.
Flamingos on the Beach, Miami Beach Coral Gables Art in Public
Places, Public Art, LeJune and Miracle Mile, Coral Gables, Florida.
2001 Best Three-Dimensional Effect, Absolut Chalk Street Art Festival,
Miami Beach, Florida.
1999 New Forms Miami, Grant recipient, Miami, Florida.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Within Four Corners, Fifth Avenue Art Gallery, Melbourne, Florida.
1999 New Forms Miami, Grant recipient, Miami, Florida.
Lost Cities: An Artist’s View of the Inner City, Solo Exhibition, funded by
the Miami Dade Cultural Affairs Council and the Miami Board of
Commissioners, Miami ArtWorks, Coral Gables, Florida.
EXHIBITIONS
2015 Kudos Art International Juried Online Exhibition.
Art is Priceless, Pinecrest Gallery, Juired Exhibition, Marlene Martinez,Maria C. Cumana, Rubens Riols
Vision of Evovling Sentiment, EA Emerge Art Show,
Soyka , Miami, Florida.
2014 Florida Art Educators Association Member Virtual Exhibition,
Daytona, Florida.
24th Annual All Florida Juried Arts Show, The Arts Council, Inc.,
Stuart, Florida.
8th edition of the International for Audio and Visual Art Streaming Festival
Miami International University, “What Those Who Teach can do,”
Exhibition, Miami, Florida.
2013 Karen Ledbetter Gallery, Fort Lauderdale , Florida.
Miami International University, “What Those Who Teach can do,”
Exhibition, Miami, Florida.
2012 FAEA Member Virtual Exhibition, St. Petersburg, Fl.
The Elizabeth V. Sullivan Gallery, The Art Students League Vtylacil
Campus, Sparkhill, New York.
Kudos Art International Juried Online Exhibition.
Life Is Art and Robin Rile Fine Art Present:Summer Show, Cafeina
Exhibition Center & Lounge, Miami, Florida.
Best in Show Art Teachers Exhibition, Jerrys Artarama, Miami, Florida.
2012 Full Sails in Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Broward County Public Library, Art Serve Miami, All Florida Show 2012,
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Miami International University, “What Those Who Teach can do,”
exhibition, Miami, Florida.
Arts and Letters Day, Creatures of the Night exhibition , Kendall, Florida.
Vytlacil Art In Residency Alumni exhibition, Sparkhill, New York.
Call to Artistic Action Exhibition, Dave and Mary Alper Jewish Community
Center, Kendall, Florida.
Art Teachers Show, Jerrys Artarama, Miami, Florida.
AT Show, CS Gallery, Miami, Florida.
2011 Vytlacil Art In Residency exhibition, Sparkhill, New York.
2009 Within Four Courners, Fifth Avenue Art Gallery, Melbourne, Florida.
2008 100% Pure Exhibition, Fifth Avenue Gallery, Melborne, Florida.
The Richeson75 International Figure/Portrait Juried Exhibition, Juror
Michael Shane, Kimberly,Wisconson.
Artist Project, Juried Selection , Chicago, Illinois,
2007 Dade Art Educators exhibition, Miami Dade College, Juried Exhibition,
Miami, Florida.
Kudos Art International Juried Online Exhibition, Juror Peter Trippi
San Diego Art Institute, Museum of the Living Artist, 49th International
juried Exhibition, San Diego, Ca.
2006 Outside the Classroom: Dade Art Educators Association Exhibition
September 23 - December 15, 2006, South Dade Regional Library.
2006 The Chautauqua 49th Annual National Exhibition of American Art, The
Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts, Chautauqua, New York, Juror
Louis Grachos.
Palm Beach Community College, Dario Gallery, 2nd Annual Drawing,
Painting, Print Making Exhibition, Palm Beach County, Florida, Juror Barry
Sparkman.
2005 New Art Gallery, Deck the Walls, Hollywood, Florida.
CG Gallery, Small Works Exhibition. Dade Educators Association,
Miami, Florida Exhibition.
“Celebration Exhibition”, K.D. Moore Gallery Evergreen, Colorado.
2004 The Chautauqua 47th Annual National Exhibition of American Art, The
Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts, Chautauqua, New York, Juror Dr.
Donald Kuspit.
Ocean Bank Exhibition, Ocean Bank, Miami, Florida.
2003 The Chautauqua 46th Annual National Exhibition of American Art, The
Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts, Chautauqua, New York, Juror
Michael Gitlitz.
2003 Annual Student Show, Florida International University Art
Museum, Miami, Florida.
Hollywood Biennial Juried Art Exhibition, Art and Culture Center of
Hollywood, Hollywood, Florida.
2002 University of Alabama, Miami Exchange Exhibition, Alabama.
WolfeCenter Exhibition, Florida International University, North
Campus, Miami, Florida.
2002 Invented Figure Show, WomanMade Gallery in Chicago, Illinois.
Collaborative Book of Poetry, “Inhabiting the Body”, Moon Press
Journal, Chicago, Illinois.
2002 Flamingos on the Beach, Miami Beach Coral Gables Art in Public
Places, Public Art Piece, LeJune and Miracle Mile, Coral Gables,
Florida.
2001 Group Show, Green Door Gallery, United Artists, in support of the
WTC relief, Miami, Florida.
Stanford L. Ziff Jewish Museum of Florida, Masks Auction, Selected
Artist, Miami Beach, Florida.
2001 National Juried Competition, Portrait of a Day, Associated Artists of
Winston- Salem, Inc., Winston Salem, N.C.
Works on Paper: When the Artist draws a Shape, GraPa Studio of Art,
Miami Beach, Florida.
Best Three-Dimensional Effect, Absolut Chalk Street Art Festival,
Miami Beach, Florida.
2000 Dreamscapes and Landscapes Exhibition, Montclair, New Jersey.
The Chautauqua 43rd Annual National Exhibition of American Art, The
Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts, Chautauqua, New York.
1999 New Forms Miami, Grant recipient, Miami, Florida.
Lost Cities: An Artist’s View of the Inner City, Solo Exhibition, funded by
the Miami Dade Cultural Affairs Council and the Miami Board of
Commissioners, Miami ArtWorks, Coral Gables, Florida.
1992 Sanibel Barrier Big Arts Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts,
Sanibel, Florida.
1991 25th Annual National Small Sculpture and Drawing Exhibition, Delmar
College, Corpus Christie, Texas.
COMMISSIONS
2003 Butt Stop Public Art, Springfield Massachusetts Business Improvement
District, Springfield, Massachusetts.
2002 Flamingos on the Beach, Miami Beach Coral Gables Art in Public
Places, Public Art, LeJune and Miracle Mile, Coral Gables, Florida.
COLLECTIONS
2009 Tom Dreher, Melbourne Florida.
2007 Matt Zuckerman, New York, New York.
2002 Jay and Ronda Fuchs, “Humanity in Flight”, Coral Gables Art in Public
Places, Public Art LeJune and Miracle Mile, Coral Gables, Florida.
Jaffe Collection Video Library, Edible Art Festival, Florida Atlantic
University, West Palm Beach, Florida.
PUBLISHINGS
2009 Florida Today, “Reception lauds winner of 'Pure Florida' show”, Pam
Harbaugh, June 5,2009.
Brevard Art News , “Fifth Avenue Art Gallery features Julie Orsini Shakher.”
OrlandoSentinel, Pick Your Arty Poison, Terry Hummel, June 5, 2009.
2008 The Richeson 75 International Figure/Portrait 2008 ,Jack Richeson &
Co., Inc., Richeson School of Art & Gallery, Kimberly,Wisconson.
2005 New Art International, Accepted into the Inclusion in 2006 New Art
International, Book Art Publisher.
2003 Hollywood Art and Culture Center, Miami Herald, Herald,com.
2002 “Inhabiting the Body”, Collaborative Book of Poetry, Moon Press
Journal WomanMade Gallery in Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, Illinois.
2000 Miami Herald Living Arts, Chalk It Up, featured “Duality of Nature”.
1999 Miami Herald Neighbors Section, Sunday Profile, “Artists Work
Illustrates Bleak Life.”
CONFERENCES AND DISCUSSION PANELS
2001 GraPa Studio of Art, When the Artist draws a Shape Discussion Panel,
Miami Beach, Florida.
1999 Conference Speaker, Miami 99 - Art For Our Sake, Florida Art
Education Association, “Breaking the Mold of Tomorrow Workshop”.