August 28, 2007
Human
Resources
Moorpark
College
Search Committee:
I am sending materials in regards to the part-time
faculty position for Art Instructor (Drawing I). Amy Green, a friend, colleague, and artist that
shows at my gallery, forwarded the information about the possibility of a
Saturday class in Drawing. I really enjoy teaching drawing and taught Drawing I
last semester at Pierce College. I am completely ready to go with syllabus and
curriculum as I just taught what should be a very similar class.
I have five years of teaching experience at the
college level at both university and community colleges. I teach at two local
community colleges: drawing, 2d design, 3d design, visual communications, and
art appreciation at Pierce College and Digital Photography and Photoshop at
College of the Canyons for the Graphics and Multimedia Department. I also
currently teach part-time at Otis College of Art and Design where I teach a
class called "Entrepreneurial Practices" which prepares senior's portfolios for
presentation beyond art school. I have also taught part-time at USC in the
Animation and Digital Arts division of the School of Cinema-Television
(graduate level class to MFA students). I have given lectures and workshops at
Otis, USC, Cal Arts, Emerson College, C-Level, and online for panel
discussions.
As an artist my work takes the form of drawing,
painting, sculpture, video and installation art. My intention in the production
of all things is to make work about people, relationships, and politics through
media, regardless of "new" or old definitions. My work is included in
such venues as Monte Vista Gallery, LA; Me and You Variety Candy Gallery, LA;
Park Projects Gallery, LA; Machine Gallery, LA; Rhizome; the Whitney ArtPort;
Barnsdall Art Park, LA; Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago; the
Andrewshire Gallery, LA; White Box Gallery, LA; Centro Nacional de Artes
(National Center for the Arts) San Salvador, El Salvador; LA Freewaves; and the
Irish Museum of Modern Art.
I am also devoted to my work as a Gallery Director at
Sea and Space Explorations (http://www.seaandspace.org).
I founded Sea and Space this summer after separating from my business partner
at Park Projects (http://www.myparkprojects.org),
another gallery I co-founded in the summer of 2006 to support challenging
contemporary art practices. The experience of creating a community for this
kind of work is an invaluable experience that I wish to foster and share with
my students.
My information:
Larissa Bank
4548 Eagle Rock Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90041
Email: larissabank@hotmail.com
(c) 323.445-4015
Please feel free to contact me for any additional
information.
Sincerely,
Larissa Bank