Deborah Eve Alastra Emerging Oregonian Artist

2005-06 Harmonic Inc. Company, Commons Room, Sunnyvale, CA. Floral Watercolor Giclee Print Series, 'Floral Interiors'; Carol Dabb Corporate Art Consultants Inc., Los Altos, CA.
1999 Bargetto Winery, Soquel, CA. watercolors, ‘Reflections’, Liz Freidman, curator.
1995 Santa Cruz Art Center, Santa Cruz, CA. watercolors and oils, Views of Davenport. Beth Regardz, curator.
1989 De Silva Gallery, San Jose, CA. watercolors and oils. ‘Mexico Memories’.
Ricardo de Silva, curator.
1988 Whole Earth, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA. Paintings and Diaramas. Tom Brownbridge, curator.
1986 Louden Nelson Community Center, Santa Cruz, CA. Recent Works, watercolors and oils. Curators, City of Santa Cruz, Art Committee.
1986 Santa Cruz Art Center, Santa Cruz, CA. Views of the North Coast in watercolors and oil, Beth Regardz, curator.
1985 Old Town Art Center, Los Gatos, CA. watercolors and oils, Works by Deborah Levin.
1984 Santa Cruz Art Center, Santa Cruz, CA. Diaramas, Joseph Schultz, curator.
1983 Del Mar Gallery, Del Mar, CA. Relief Prints, Jack and Ur Sharpe curators.
1979-1981 Kipp Collection Showroom, Pacific Design Center,
Los Angeles, CA. Exhibition of four photo silkscreened Textile Designs for upholstery and drapery. Designer’s showroom, Jay Bowyer curator.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2005 Invitation / Acceptance: The 51st International Art Exhibition, organized by the Fondazione la Biennale di Venezia and directed by María de Corral and by Rosa Martínez.
2003/2004 Santa Cruz Digital Arts Exhibits, Daryl Wise. Watercolors and Oils digitalized and edited using Photoshop. Group exhibitions.
1986-1988 Santa Cruz Open Studios. Cultural Council of Santa Cruz. Paintings and Prints. Group exhibit from home studios.
1984 Santa Cruz Art League, Dia de los Muertos Group Art Exhibit. Painting and Diarama submissions.

ARTS RELATED EMPLOYMENT

2009-present
Textile Designer for NR Design Studio, New York. Contract freelance textile designs for NY design studio, 50 new designs for children's, young girls, and hospitality prints exhibited through Directions by Indigo, NY, Nadia Reisman.(cptjaneway1@earthlink.net)

2008-2009
Textile Designer for JeCorporate Designs, Shanghai China. Exhibited 100 home decor textile designs for AllAbout Design Shanghai, Shanghai China, Benjamin Nea. (benjamin.h.nea <benjamin.h.nea@jecorporate.com>)

2007-2008
Children's Art Instructor, taught mixed media children's art classes at the Multnomah Art Center, Portland Oregon, Portland Parks and Recreation. (aime.kelly@ci.portland.or.us)

2008
Children's Book Illustration for Pioneer Publishing, Amherst Mass. Creating hand rendered watercolors for educational publishing company. Currently finishing an educational version of Tortoise and the Hare. Christine Freitas (christine@pvep.com)

2005-2007
Children's Art Instructor, taught children's after school art classes in public schools and art's summer school for Calabasas Elementary, Watsonville California; Todd Westfall Assistant Principal.

1999-2005
Freelance artist and Graphic Designer; projects included art for Running Fence Recycled, creating art pieces for exhibition on original Cristo Running Fence panels; Dianne Smith curator (dmsfremont55@sbcglobal.net)

1985-1996
Arts Program Director for the Davenport Resource Center, Davenport, CA. Founded, administered, and taught art for the North Coast Children’s Art Program of Santa Cruz County, at the Davenport Resource Center, a project of the Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County. Funded in part by Program Grants from the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County. The program provided free after school and summer art programs for low income / at risk children and teens of the Santa Cruz North Coast area, mainly from Spanish speaking farmworker families. The program included field trips to nearby galleries and arts events, guest artists, and exhibits of the students’ art work.

1983-1985
Art Instructor, Monterey County Office of Education ‘Yo Puedo’ Program. Taught art classes to migrant teenagers from Pajarro Valley; instruction at UC Santa Cruz.

1984-1985
Art Instructor, Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County’s Gifted and Talented Program. Instructed art lessons for targeted gifted art students, from home studio.

AWARDS / COMMISSIONS / PUBLICATIONS

2005 CAL-Research, Richmond CA; commission for 2005 Poster.
Painting of farmworkers titled ‘Healthcare for All’. Edition of 2,000 to be printed in October 2005. Supports CAL-Research studies and grants for California social service non-profits; Richmond, CA.

May 2005 Progressive Greetings ArtSource, United Kingdom’s International Trade Magazine for the Greeting Card Industry. Featured with photo and two paintings. London, England U.K.

2005 Art Business News, Originals, feature publication with photos of newest floral watercolor series, contact information. Susanne Casgar, Editorial Director, Art Business News, Pfingsten Publishing, L.L.C., Cleveland, Ohio.

2005 Rasco Products LTD, BookMarker Plates; four designs in print utilizing four paintings for the bookmark/bookplate industry. (to be published and marketed by 2006 in bookstore chains throughout the US and Europe). Steven Schultz, Rasco Products LTD, Fresno & New York.

2004 BriteVision Media, Java Arts Program. Coffee Sleeve Designs for print publication of two images for San Francisco CA.