Art Resume

Rusty van Rossmann

vanrossmann@yahoo.com

 

EDUCATION

My art education consisted of art classes in college in California and as an adult in Oregon. Noted instructors include: William Collier – Figure Drawing, Mark Allison – Figure Painting. I have taken other coursework in sculpture, oil painting, and watercolor. My primary education has been self study of the Masters.

 

HONORS & AWARDS

  • Top honor two dimensional, Corvallis Community Juried Art Show 1996(?) “Number Eight”.
  • Juror’s choice award LBCC Juried Student Show 2007 “Lucien’s Lust and Lethargy”

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Past Member – Guild of Natural Science Illustrators, Northwest Chapter.

 

RELATED EXPERIENCE

Van Rossmann Illustration. Commercial and graphic arts since 1976. Focus has been on Artifact Drawing/Scientific illustration.

 

EXHIBITIONS

  • Illustrations for permanent display. Native American Cultural exhibit. CoddingTown Mall, Santa Rosa, California.
  • Illustrations for permanent display. Sedge basketry exhibit. Warm Springs Dam, Sonoma County California.

 

NOTABLE COMMISSIONS

  • Town & Country Realty annual Christmas card
  • Redwood Empire Gymnastics logo design
  • Rohnert Park Gymnastics logo design
  • Northern California Boys Gymnastics Association logo design

 

SAMPLE OF NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS (Illustrations provided)

·    Jones, T. L., G. Brown, L. M. Raab, J. McVickar, G. Spaulding, D. J. Kennett, A. York, and P. L. Walker 1999  Environmental Imperatives Reconsidered: Demographic Crises in western North America during the Medieval Climatic Anomaly. Current Anthropology 40: 137-156.

·    Jones, T. L., R. T. Fitzgerald, D. J. Kennett, C. H. Miksicek, J. L. Fagan, J. Sharp, and J. M. Erlandson  2002 The Cross Creek Site (CA-SLO-1797) and its Implications for New World Colonization. American Antiquity 67:213-230.                

  • Fitzgerald, R. T., T. L. Jones, and A. Schroth 2005 Ancient Long Distance Trade in Western North America: New AMS Radiocarbon Dates from Southern California. Journal of Archaeological Science 32:423-434. (Cover Illustration also)
  • Boxt, Matthew A., L. Mark Raab, and Rebecca B. González Lauck n.d. From Olmec to Contact: Cultural Development in the La Venta Hinterland. In Nick of Time: Mesoamerican Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Essays in Honor of H.B. Nicholson, edited by Matthew A. Boxt. UCLA Institute of Archaeology.
  • Complete House Inspection Book by Don Fredrickson, Rusty van Rossmann (Illustrator) Ballantine Books, ISBN 0449902633, Feb1988